How To Make A Scrapbook For A New Baby
If a new baby has just come into your family, you’re probably taking lots of photos of all the amazing things that babies do. Are all the photos just piling up or lost in your computer? If you take a little time to arrange them, you can easily enjoy looking at them and remembering all the fun times. One of the best and also the most fun ways of organizing all those photos is with scrapbooking.
My mother created scrapbooks for each of her five children, documenting our childhoods and the major events in our lives. When we’re all together as a family, we get out our books and remember and tell the stories. Mom is older now and can’t do her scrapbooking. But I continue to keep the books for her granddaughters and great-granddaughter updated. Thus, the scrapbooks become a precious family heirloom and everyone appreciates the work she did to record the family memories.
Even if you haven’t done any crafting since kindergarden, you’ll enjoy creating a scrapbook for your new baby. You can make simple pages now and embellish them later. Everything you need to know to make an enjoyable scrapbook, you learned in kindergarten.
The only important thing is to start and organize the photos in a meaningful form that people can enjoy. The goal is to create the story of the child’s life. You can add or insert other pages as things come up and you have time.
Various types of pages, a scrapbook or album to hold the pages, glue, and scissors are really all you need to get started. Be careful about the pages. You need acid-free, archival pages for any precious or heirloom photographs. If you can’t find scrapbooking supplies in your local store, you can easily buy everything online.
Don’t get overwhelmed with choices here. There are lots of cute adornments and stuff for baby scrapbooks. But you can always buy them later after you see what you want for embellishments or something special.
I start a scrapbook by organizing the photos by date and event. I’m relentless about eliminating the duplicates and really bad photos at this stage. Spread the photos from the first pile out on the floor or a big table so you can see them. Chose the best photos and put them together to tell the story of what happened. Leave room for a title of the occasion, the date, who, what, and anything else interesting. This information is very important to record now when it’s fresh in your mind.
Complete the story of your baby’s life by including other significant items. Include shower invitations, a copy of the birth certificate, birth announcement, thumb and foot prints. As your child grows up, you can include other memorabilia such as newspaper clippings, school athletic letters, ribbons and awards that are especially meaningful.
Love is the only important ingredient in a scrapbook for your new baby. As long as you create it with love, it will be perfect and something to be treasured forever.
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