Scrapbooking

I realized when I wrote up our  Deliver Your Dreams meeting that I’d never done a post on scrapbook pages.  This is a program delivery method that we uses at least once a year and it is always a well received meeting.  I’ve heard of other units that uses it as an ongoing project for the girls to make scrapbooks of their Guiding memories.

If you’ve done scrapbooking as an adult you may be familiar with the concept of acid free supplies to ensure they last a long time.  For most of the projects I do with the unit I don’t worry about the quality of the supplies as much as I do wanting to ensure the girls have a wide variety of materials so their creativity can really come out. Most of our supplies come from either the dollar store or donations. We were fortunate to receive a donation of a number of rubber stamps from a former Guider who was no longer working on scrapbooks.

For each scrapbook night we pick a theme for the girls to make a page around.  We’ve used “Why I’m special”, “My future career” and  “Photos from camp”.  We’ve also used much the same materials to make cards for Valentines for Vets.  We’ve found it works best if we set up a number of different stations around the room such as a gluing  things table, a cutting things table, stamping things table and sticker table.  The girls can move between the stations as their design evolves.

Materials:

• Full sheets of basic scrapbook paper
• Other scrapbook paper the girls can cut up
• Stickers (both letters and images appropriate to the subject)
• Glue
• Other craft misc supplies (fancy tape, feathers, sticky gem stones etc.)
• die cut paper

Supplies:

• scissors (if you have access to fancy edged ones that it great)
• stencils
• stamps and ink (optional)
• markers

Depending on the project we either let the girls take their pages home at the end of the night or assemble them into a single book.