Scrapbooking the Vacation Bible School experience, in my opinion, is important as it relives the experience for the child attending and gives parents, God parents, and grandparents the opportunity to talk about and "re-teach" what the child learned during that one weeks time. Repitition is so important for kids as they grow in their faith.
This week I've created several pages that will be given to my nephew so his can look back at this week of Vacation BIble School and his "vacation" with his cousins and Me (Aunt Kari).
I'd like to share some of them with you today.
Using My Digital Studio I created this 8 x 8 page using punches and pre-designed template that I altered. The bubble are an overlay that I put over the page to emulate the bubbles he experienced walking into Vacation Bible School. It was such a neat expereince for him.
Then when I walked him in I took pictures of some of his buddies and crew leader,
The page below gives you an idea on how you might want to outline what they learned during the day.
I hope that the above pages inspire you to scrapbook the vacation bible school experience of your own children or grandchildren. You may also want to incorporate it into a summer experience book. The pages below are also included in Scrapbooking the Vacation Bible School Experience because my nephew is staying with me through the week, and I'm doing this book for him and his mom.
Since this book is geared towards a boy I'm keeping it pretty simple with limited embelishments. The challenge actually is keeping it "interesting" enough to hold the attention of a 7 year old. :) What I have experienced though is that if they see enough pictures of themselves it WILL hold their attention.
Ok so the page above doesn't look like much but I think keeping this simple actually helps with the transition to the next few pages. It's telling a story and basically a transition for the adult looking through the book to "know" what the events were. The child will remember, and what they like to see is this:
My goal when scrapbooking is to have the child focus on who is in the picture rather than the bells and whistles of the embellishmemts around it.
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