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Project:
Scrap Book
 Does
your child have a personal scrap book, or do scrap books only find their
way in your child's life when he has to submit a project at school? Encourage
creativity in your child by helping him make a family chart book. Here
are some great tips:
Let him make
the scrap book instead of buying a readymade one. You will need:
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Chart paper, different
colours
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Cardboard
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Clear cellophane
sheet
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Scissors
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Glazed paper
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Thick felt markers
Start by making
the cover. Cut the cardboard sheet to the appropriate size. Stick a sheet
of glazed paper on it (perhaps yellow) and paste your child's photograph
or a family photograph in the centre. Your child could then draw a squiggly
border around the photograph with a marker. Alternatively, you and your
child could also make a collage on the cover. Paste a clear cellophane
sheet on top, and the cover is ready.
Cut the chart
paper so it is just a little smaller in size than the cover. The chart
paper will form the colourful pages of the scrap book, so make sure you
purchase a sufficient number of sheets.
Similarly,
the back cover of the scrap book will be made of a cardboard sheet, covered
with glazed paper and cellophane. Your child needn't decorate it with an
image.
Once ready,
get the loose sheets spirally bound from your neighbourhood stationary
shop.
Here's what
you child can put inside his scrap book, so that it becomes a memento he
will cherish for years to come:
Choose a few
photographs that have been taken by your son, and paste them in the scrap
book. Make sure he mentions that these photographs have been taken by him.
A little information about when the snap was taken and under what circumstances
should also be mentioned. Along with the photographs taken by your child,
place a photograph of him and his friends, and a few other family photographs
in the scrap book. Don't forget to include a baby photograph.
Do you have
a dog or any other pet? Don't forget to include his or her photograph
in the scrap book, along with a write-up by your child.
Ask your child
to make a sketch of your family, and paste the sketch in the scrap
book.
What is your
child's favourite flower? Ask him to pluck one, press it and stick
it in a page of his scrap book. Encourage him to fill up the rest of the
page with a little write up or 'essay' on the flower. He could include
where he plucked it from, why it is his favourite flower?
It would be
even more special if this scrap book was made around a particular holiday
like Diwali
or Christmas.
Your child could then include information about how Diwali or Christmas
was celebrated that particular year, along with the appropriate photographs.
Did he get new clothes? Did he dress up as Santa
or a little elf? Take a snap of him in the new clothes or costume and paste
it in the scrap book - you get the idea..
Take your family
for children for a professional photo shoot. Include one of these
snaps in the scrap book, and frame the others.
Cut out a large
photograph of your child's favourite actor, actress or any other idol
from
a magazine. Fold the face in half, and stick in on a sheet of paper. Let
your child sketch the other half as best as he can. Stick this sketch in
the scrap book and ask your child to do a write-up on his idol.
Ask your child
to select a few of his favourite birthday cards, and paste them
in the scrap book.
And finally,
when the project is finally complete and your child's scrap book is ready,
don't forget to praise him for the hard work that he's put him!
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