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Scrapbooks for Your Classroom

Spectacular Scrapbooks
Writing/Art Keeping scrapbooks has become a hobby of children as well as adults. Collect some supplies from a craft store to get your class thinking of ideas. Use the computer lab as well as art supplies to begin a scrapbook for an upcoming events, like summer vacation. Each student should choose a theme or style, plan and prepare text boxes, page frames, dialogue boxes and cover designs. Begin with a plain three-ring binder and see what it can become.

Scrapbooking is ever-popular among adults and students alike. A super book to use as a model is Zoe Sophia's Scrapbook: An Adventure in Venice by Claudia Mauner and Elisa Smalley (Chronicle Books, 2003, ISBN: 0-811-83606-1). Each day of Zoe Sophia's visit is journaled and includes ticket stubs, drawings and souvenirs.

Another scrapbook offering, and a great gift for a young person, is My Missmatched Life: A Marvelous, Zany, Kooky, Fabulous Scrapbook by Leslie Jonath (Chronicle Books, 2006.ISBN: 0-811-85108-7). The book is a consumable, not for library borrowing, but great for young people to write secrets, tell about friends, take to sleepovers and be creative.

Ready-to-Use Scrapbook Pages contains resources that will help you turn your digital pictures into a digital scrapbook.

How To...Edit, Print and Share e-Scrapbooks offers some simple tips on how to prepare photos for digital scrapbooks.