How to teach your child how to scrapbook?

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Scrapbooking is super fun and creative and having your child learn how to scrapbook, is really fun. 

Here are some sure fire ways to help your child scrapbook:

Show your child your finished scrapbooks

By showing your child your scrapbooks, they get to see the end results and get an idea of what scrapbooking is visually. This teaches them that being creative with paper and stickers and some glue and scissors, can be turned into some cool art. 

Also, it shows your child, that you value memories if you use photos in your scrapbooking. And children or anyone, love looking back at older photos and memories. So it's quite a moment for them as well. 

Show your child your scrapbooking supplies

It's exciting for someone who does scrapbooking to show their scrapbooking supplies to someone who seems interested in it. You have spent time browsing and then choosing which supplies you would love to use and now you can show someone the cool supplies you do have. 

Give your child some scrapbooking supplies to play with (their choice)

Ok, now it gets harder from here (but it doesn't have to)... you can give them some of your scrapbooking supplies to start with to see if they enjoy scrapbooking a page. Plus give them a scrapbooking book, or even an exercise book that hasn't been used from school. That is there scrapbooking book, which they can use whenever they feel like it. 

Give them a drawer too. So they can put their scrapbooking supplies in. If you have another pair of scissors and a glue stick, pass them that too. 

Do you know own scrapbooking page, as they create their own page. Don't try to fix theirs. It's their first time, and putting your artwork on display can be a nervous thing to do. They may start small. With stickers mainly on the page.

Teach your child how to cut cool paper cuts

If you have any stencils, show your child how to use the stencil to create images. Then show them how to make cloud paper cut outs and how to make different shapes and borders etc. 

Kids, want to have fun and so do you! So be creative as possible, when showing them how to scrapbook. 

If your child seems to actually create a scrapbooking page and seems to enjoy it. Ask them if you can buy them supplies? And also, what are their favourite people/places/themes etc. My son, loves Ronaldo, a famous football player. Yes, you wouldn't believe it, I found Ronaldo stickers and football stickers. I also bought car and baseball stickers. And I put these stickers in his scrapbooking draw. 

One day, I was in the house and he came out of his room and quietly sat down and did some scrapbooking. I waited till he finished and said, "Wow, you did some scrapbooking." He replied with, "I was angry." And then I congratulated him for removing himself from what he was angry about and focusing on something else. Who knew scrapbooking could help with emotional regulation. 

So I only see benefits for letting your child scrapbooking and showing them how to do it. 

I hope you enjoy reading my blog posts and look at my Etsy store for some inspiration. I have some cool scrapbooking printables for sale on my Etsy store, such as the scrapbooking supplies printable tracker. The scrapbooking supplies printable tracker, helps you work out what you have and how much you have in scrapbooking supplies. A handy tool when going shopping for more supplies. 

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