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How to make a holiday scrapbook with children.

A couple of years ago we took our son out of school to have a fun trip in America, visiting New York, Naples, and Florida.

At the time he was only 6 years old, so we spoke to the school who didn’t fine us but asked if he could compile a scrapbook while he was there.

This was before we decided to homeschool but this is a tradition we have continued.

I was all up for the idea as it would be a great memory for him, and in fact, he made one recently of our time in Jamaica.

More importantly, he was excited about doing it as well, so a result.

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Holiday Scrapbook Ideas

On our trip, we, of course, took a lot of photos, but we made sure our son collected as much as he could while we were there.

Pretty much anything he had over the space of the holiday we collected.

• Boarding Cards
• Luggage Label
• Activity Books from restaurants – check out our free printable Christmas placemats .
• Entrance Tickets
• Subway tickets
• Money (of course just loose change!!)
• Theatre Tickets
• Scorecards (when we played crazy golf!)
• Handbooks (Wilderness Explorer handbook from Animal Kingdom)
• Epcot Passport (see which are the best Disney parks for 6 year old )
• Pictures he had drawn

Scrapbooking with kids

My top tip is to make your scrapbook as soon as you can after your holiday, so it is still very fresh in their memory.

Craft Supplies Needed

• Scrapbook (we have used this one, or a photo album will work!)
• Photo paper
• Holiday scrapbook stickers
• Scrapbook paper

Choose the photos you want to include with your child and put them in order. We did it in day order as we traveled quite a lot. We have a printer at home so it was easy, but you can very cheaply get these printed.

Collect all of the things you collected on your trip and put them in the order with the photos.

For every day of your trip ask your child to write a couple of sentences about what they did. I tried not to help too much, which is why some of the words are written phonetically rather than spelled correctly. But I was super proud of him.

Make sure you lay everything in the pages of the scrapbook before you actually start gluing just to make sure you utilize the book properly.

We put all of the maps at the end of the scrapbook as we had collected so many, maps of the Disney resorts, Universal Studios, and New York.

Whilst we didn’t have access to a die-cutting machine, you can also easily create your own custom-themed stickers and shapes with the help of a manual scrapbook die-cutting machine . I’m sure your child will enjoy cranking the handle to cut out some fun designs.

Then the best part, sticking!!!! All we used was either sticky tape or a glue stick so was super easy for our son to use.

This scrapbook was made 4 years ago, and he is still so proud of it. It regularly comes out and he loves showing family and friends.

Due to him making this scrapbook he now actually remembers the holiday really well as he looks through the scrapbook all the time. I have to say it was probably the best craft / educational thing we have ever done with him.

Do you have any scrapbooking ideas? If so I would love to hear your top tips.

Last Updated on 2 July 2023 by homeschoolof1

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Such a great thing to do. We did this with our kids who are a bit older now and they LOVE going back through them. I really like the maps, hadn’t thought of that.

We did a scrapbook last summer holidays and it was a great way to get my daughter to write and also keep for the memories. We will be doing the same this year.

I always used to do this for our big family holidays, and I can still remember them all so well, it’s such a great way to cement those memories. And I still look at those scrapbooks now! I’ve not done this yet with my son, but I think this year he will be old enough to and I think he’ll love it – he loves looking through old photos and his memory box.

It is so nice for them to make and collect all the things while on holiday as well. It certainly has made us remember the holiday much more, and we will do it for every big holiday we have 🙂

I recall doing this with my mum and look forward to doing kit with the kids too.

Its a really lovely thing to do and look back on 🙂 x

Oh this is such a lovely way to capture the memories of a special holiday. I’m sure you’ll always look back on it fondly together.

I know its so special for us, we look at it all the time. x

This is absolutely lovely! We love to collect bits from our adventures and holidays but haven’t yet compiled them into a scrapbook. Now that the kids are 6 I know this would be an activity they would thoroughly enjoy! x

I encourage N to do a scrapbook over the summer holidays. He quite likes doing it although hates writing. It’s just a faff printing out photos because our home printer doesn’t work.

Love this, reminds me of the school holidays when I was little. We always used to make scrapbooks over the summer

It is something I had never done previously, it was the school that suggested it, and I am so glad they did. Freddie absolutely loved making it and still looks through them now x

That is a fantastic thing to do and really good of the school to allow you to do that. Great memories to share.

I love this idea! We also does scrap book with Ethan too, but we keep stopping and starting, and then we forgets about it now. I think we need to start ours again. Thank you for your inspirations. xx

I think scrapbooking is a great way to get the family together, as well as wonderful for curating all the lovely memories made – not to mention, most kids love the creative element too!

Yes I couldn’t agree more, Freddie is so proud of what he achieved and is such a great memory for him.

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Hold on to memories of adventures gone by with this super-easy holiday scrapbook layout. Armed with a few craft stash essentials and some of your favourite snaps, you're creative juices will be flowing in next to no time. We've opted for an A4 layout, however the design can easily be tweaked to fit a 12 x 12" or 8 x 8" page.

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Start by punching circles from a variety of card and paper stock using a 1″ craft punch. For this A4 layout you'll need 42 circles in total.

Position the cut circles in seven rows of seven on top of white cardstock. Once happy with the arrangement secure each circle in place with a sewing machine starting on the bottom row. Ensure a small gap is left between each circle. When it comes to sewing the row above in place, slightly overlap the circles. Once all of the circles are attached, trim the A4 sheet to 19.5cm square.

Cut a sheet of adhesive foam to 19.5cm square and secure to the back of the stitched panel. Add double-sided tape to the reverse and mount centrally to the bottom half of another sheet of white cardstock, trimmed to 20 x 29cm. Finally mat to a sheet of yellow card.

Print, then cut out your images and mount to white cardstock, leaving a 5mm border. Secure to the layout with double-sided tape.

Use alphabet stickers to create your title, utilising the white space at the top of the layout – we've experimented with overlapping our title onto our images too.

Add your journaling using a typewriter (you could also use alphabet stamps), trim to size with a pair of scissors before securing to the layout.

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Class 2 Holiday Homework: While summer vacation is a time for enjoyment and rest, it’s also a fantastic chance for young children to continue learning and keeping their minds occupied. Put an end to tedious spreadsheets! There is a tonne of original vacation homework in this blog post for students in Class 2. To make summer learning exciting for kids, instructors, and parents, we will cover themes like nature exploration, arts and crafts, and even healthy living. To know more, keep reading this blog! 

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• 1.1 1. Daily Reading Practice
• 1.2 2. Spelling Practice
• 1.3 3. Short Stories
• 2.1 5. Practice Problems
• 2.2 6. Number Art 
• 3.1 7. My Five Senses
• 3.2 8. Family Tree
• 3.3 9. All About Me 
• 4.1 10. Nature Scrapbook
• 4.2 11. Board Game Fun 

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Creative Class 2  Holiday Homework Ideas: Reading and Writing

Reading and writing are foundational skills that open doors to a world of imagination and knowledge. Let us look at them now. 

1. Daily Reading Practice

Each day, spend 15 to 20 minutes reading. You can select books from the library, read your favourite school texts, or even choose storybooks that you already own.

2. Spelling Practice

Students can practice writing down in five to ten sentences what they learned from their textbook or class each day.

3. Short Stories

You may ask them to create a five to eight-line short tale about their favourite animal or their ideal career. You could even represent it with a drawing!

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Class 2 Maths Holiday Homework 

The summer is a great time to practise maths in a fun and engaging way! These fantastic exercises will make you an expert in maths. Let’s look at a few of them. 

5. Practice Problems

Students can work through a few basic addition and subtraction problems from a workbook or your textbook.

6. Number Art 

Utilise vibrant pencils, crayons, or markers to draw an image by combining various forms. Each shape can be given a number, and you can use the image to calculate the basic addition total.

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Science and Social Studies Class 2 Holiday Homework 

The social studies and science homework will help students advance their knowledge. Now let’s examine a few of these activities. 

7. My Five Senses

Students can draw and label the five senses (eyes, ears, nose, tongue, and skin) in this activity, and they can also write a brief sentence describing how each sense aids in a particular task.

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Students are required to write ten sentences about themselves, their interests, and their hobbies for this assignment.

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In this section, we’ve gathered a list of innovative arts and crafts holiday homework assignments for kids in Class 2. Now let’s examine them. 

10. Nature Scrapbook

During the holidays, you could assign your kids to gather various leaves, flowers, or intriguing rocks. After pressing them in a book, adhere them to a scrapbook page using adhesive. Each item’s name can be written next to it.

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Among the most original ideas ever is this one! One of the best ways to encourage students to be creative and innovative is to let them design a board game with custom rules. 

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If you assign students various assignments, such as artwork, tests, and the like, they will have more creative holiday homework. 

You can organise your holiday assignments by making a timetable that assigns equal weight to every part of your day. 

Make a study schedule for the two days you have allotted to finish your holiday homework, dividing it up among the many courses you need to cover. This is especially important if you only have two days to finish it. 

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 I’ve been working on some Christmas scrapbook ideas and a basic holiday scrapbook layout so I can deal with all the other photographs I have from when the kids were little.

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If I thought I had a bunch of Halloween photographs, I have way more from Christmas. This project has made me understand more than ever why it’s so important to organize my photographs regularly.

The kids really enjoyed seeing their Halloween photos in a scrapbook so I know they’re going to enjoy seeing the holiday scrapbook layout I made.

I’m using the Project Life method to scrapbook my photos. Project life is quick and easy and doesn’t take tons of time or a lot of special skills.

I just don’t have the patience to create a scrapbook page from scratch and cut out all my embellishments. With Project Life, I can get card collections, stamp sets and accessory packs for just about any theme I like.

The photo pocket pages are divided into different sizes so I can just insert the photographs and add different sized cards and accessories to dress up the page.

You may remember that last month, I organized my Halloween photos of the kids .

One of the problems that I have with coming up with Christmas scrapbook ideas is that most of my photos are a bunch of different sizes. Remember how you use to be able to get photos 3×5 and 4×6.

Don’t even get me started on school photographs and Polaroid photographs. With Project Life, I can add different background cards using accessory packs so that all my photos fit in the photo pocket pages.

Then I add some stickers or some letters or some sequins and I’ll all set.

I love how easy Project Life is to use and that it doesn’t require any special crafting skills. I can start and stop when I’m making my scrapbook page depending on how much time I have and I can move things around if I change my mind about what I want it to look like.

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