Salty Sam’s Fun Blog for Children
Number 568
Scrapbooking
Hello Everyone
Well, another New Year is upon us.
How many new plans have you made for yourself?
Do you want to try new things, or get fitter, or improve your sports skills, or read more books, or start new projects?
As you know, Emily has a bullet journal that she uses to organize her life.
And she started to use a new one from yesterday.
She loves drawing boxes in her bullet journals, and also patterns and little pictures. Then she loves colouring them in.
She makes lots and lots of notes.
Having the bullet journal has transformed Emily. She really is so well-organized nowadays – and believe me, she was not always like that.
But Emily got to thinking that her notes were all about her future plans and she wanted to record memories as well.
So she decided to start scrap booking.
Her parents bought her some scrapbooks and some labels and stickers to help get her started.
You tend to put keepsakes in a scrapbook that are flat and can be stuck onto a page – otherwise if they were too bulky you wouldn’t be able to shut the book up again!
You can put things like pressed flowers, tickets, menus, postcards, maps, souvenir bookmarks, leaflets, pet paw prints, favourite family recipes and of course photos in your book.
You shouldn’t forget to write notes and dates next to photos – so that you have information for yourself about them in the far future.
You can put in small poems that you come across, or some words from a song, or proverbs or words of inspiration.
The pieces of paper don’t have to be stuck in all lined up. They can be put in at angles. They can be put inside frames that are shaped like hearts or stars or circles or ovals.
Your keepsakes can be separated out or layered slightly on top of each other.
Then of course you can decorate the pages around your keepsakes with patterned paper, sweet foils, chocolate bar wrappers, coloured envelopes, greetings cards and doilies.
You can add drawings, patterned tape, string, ribbons, stickers, stamps, tags, sequins, glitter and charms.
You can make your own patterned paper by using marbling techniques or potato printing or drawing around a shape like a cookie cutter repeatedly at random. You can use coloured paints or coffee to colour paper or print on it.
You could create small pictures using collage techniques.
Roll on glue, white pens and glitter pens, photo mounts (like stick on corners) will be useful.
There are lots of accessories you can buy for scrapbooking because it is such a popular hobby, but with a little ingenuity you can make so many of your own decorations from scraps of things you have around the house; it does not have to become a very expensive hobby at all.
You can use your artistic abilities to make every page look attractive.
lt can be so much fun.
You could have a colour theme to run through the whole book or just have all the colours of the rainbow running through the pages.
lf you used yellow and black, your pages would look very striking and sharp, if you used pink and white, your pages would look soft and muted.
You could use the colours you have in your bedroom, or your school colours and make a school yearbook with lots of pictures of your friends.
You can make a book about a special project or idea: like creating a garden, or a special party, or a day in the life of your pet, or a family wedding, or moving into a new house, or setting up a new chicken coop, a road trip, or setting up a community village pond, the tour of your choir, or a day trip to a special place.
You could make a wedding scrapbook to give to someone as a present.
When someone is getting married, they don’t have time to collect bits and pieces from the day for themselves.
They would be thrilled to receive some extra photos and mementos like pressed flowers from the table centre pieces, napkins, cake decorations and wrapping paper from their special day that they were not able to collect themselves to give them when they come back from their honeymoon. You could use confetti to decorate the pages.
Don’t forget to lay everything out before you start gluing.
lf you want to keep bulkier items such as shells and tiny ornaments and toys, you can put them into a memory jar.
Memory jars are good things to make after you have been on a lovely holiday and you want to keep reminding yourself of it.
You might be able to turn some small souvenirs into key rings or even mascots to tie onto the zip of your school pencil case so that you can carry them around with you all the time.
You might have some souvenirs that could be used as storage vessels or as vases.
Emily put a big label on the front of one of her new scrapbooks and wrote on it.
Memories of 2026
She didn’t know how quickly she would fill up the book.
lt might last a whole year, or it might get filled up so quickly that she would need another book for the summer and then maybe another for the end of the year.
Then one day, she may well find her books in the back of a cupboard and they will make her smile.
She can’t wait to get started making new memories – and then of course recording them in her new scrapbook!
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Love and kisses
Salty Sam
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Bob: Well, after l climbed Mount Everest, everything since has been downhill.
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THE SALTY SAM NEWS DESK
This week, we have another of Bill and Bob’s quizzes for you.
They love collecting new words, especially funny-looking ones.
Do you know what these words mean?
Bamboozle
Tomfoolery
Pollywog
Flummery
Nincompoop
Gongoozling
And also we would all like to wish you a
Happy New Year!
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Quick Quiz
Do you know what these words are?
They begin with…
- M – a thing to help you remember a happy memory
- E – an animal that is said to never forget
- M – a collection of pictures
- O – very decorated
- R – going back to a place
- l – a list of items in a book
- E – a trip to an interesting place
- S – a place where you go to learn things as a child
lt’s the Weekend!
HOW TO DECORATE A SCRAPBOOK
lf you have some wrapping paper around a present that you particularly like, there are ways you can use that paper to keep it – and find a use for it.
Of course you can use it in scrapbooking by using the paper to decorate your pages.
But also, you can use it to cover a book or the lid of a sturdy box like a chocolate box.
You can use the paper to cover pieces of thin card to be used as dividers in a small folder like a file-o-fax or a box of file cards or recipe cards, or cover a thick piece of card to be used as a divider in a ring binder.
Or you can decorate file holders in a filing cabinet. Making file look different helps you to file information quickly.
You can cover the front cover of a notebook to make it more attractive and if you have a spiral at the top or side of it, just neaten the edge of the paper by attaching the edge of the paper to the cover with a strip of tape.
Or you can just stick a square in the middle of the cover.
You could stick a square or rectangle on the side of a storage jar or box and then put a white label with a note of the contents over the top of the patterned paper.
You could cover a piece of card with patterned paper, punch a hole at the end and use it as a label to tie to a storage basket.
Please note that the material on this blog is for personal use and for use in classrooms only.
It is a copyright infringement and, therefore, illegal under international law to sell items made with these patterns.
Use of the toys and projects is at your own risk.
©Christina Sinclair Designs 2015
Answers to the News Desk Quiz
To bamboozle – to confuse someone/ to get the better of someone by tricking and deceiving them
Tomfoolery – clowning around/foolish behaviour
Pollywog – another word for a tadpole
Flummery – a soft, sweet dessert dish
Nincompoop – an idiot
Gongoozling – watching boats and ships traversing a large body of water
Quick Quiz Answers
- M – memento
- E – elephant
- M – montage
- O – ornate
- R – revisit
- l – index
- E – excursion
- S – school
