Some of the best education hacks are the ones that are so much fun, your child asks to do them again and again. Scrapbooking and card making land in this category for my family.
I love to scrapbook and my nearly 8-yo son, after watching me and looking through my scrapbooks for several years, has recently taken an interest in doing some serious scrapbooking of his own. He started out with some colored paper and photos from my "leftover" stash, and he now shops for patterned paper and embellishments at our local craft store and asks me to take specific photos just for his scrapbook. This year, he wants to make his own birthday party invitations.
I watch him proudly as he works on his printing, spelling, storytelling skills, color balance and combination, layout composition, and even problem-solving — he wanted to make a baseball diamond on a page and needed to figure out how to cut the paper into triangles to make it work.
If you enjoy scrapbooking and card making, check out Paper Crafts and Simple Scrapbooks magazines. Today is National Card Making Day and they are offering free shipping on their great idea books with a $20 order through October 8th.
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I love scapbooking and hope to pass that on so that my sons enjoy it too. When they're a bit older I plan to get them journals that they can scrap in as well as write.
My 8 year old son enjoys it also. I got him a scrapbook last year at Christmas just for our hs field trips. He and my daughter (6) both love doing the layouts. This is great, thanks for the links.
Jennifer
As a homeschooling Parent and a Rubber Stamping, Scrapbooking and Mixed media Instructor, I can tell you first hand how enriching artistic journals and scrapbooks are. Paper cutters, straight and curving lines, geometry, composition and the process of choosing themes coupled with art products, color wheels and theory all are very valuable and nothing can engage a child like the promise of getting messy with paper, glue and paint
Some of my favorite projects were science journals that had specimens glued to the pages and observations jotted down. Kudos to you for the article!
Have a look at this online store.
http://www.scraptaztic.com.au