Baby Scrapbooking Ideas for Everyone

Your baby's scrapbook will be something that you and your family will enjoy for a lifetime. Take your time and remember to preserve those memories just as you felt the time of the event.

What should be kept in the Baby Scrapbook?

Any and every occasion can get recorded in a scrapbook that you will have fun watching and recollecting later on in life; after all, every day is special with your baby and family.

A Baby Scrapbooking Idea

Here are a few ideas for your baby's scrapbook:

1. Start your book with pictures of your showers, while you were pregnant, and early ultrasound photos. These are a few great ways to kick off your scrapbook.

2. Dr.'s visits and the actual delivery day.

3. Visitors at the hospital, the nurses, and doctor who were present the day you gave birth to your baby.

4. The day of your baby's birth. Enclude picture of family member holding the baby for the first time. This is a perfect time to get a generational picture with those who come to see you.

5. For the first year you can take a picture every day and gradually show the changes in the baby and/or what cute things he/she did everyday.

6. The "firsts" First day at home, first holidays, first haircut, first bath, first smile, first steps, and first birthday.

7. The impressions of his/her hands, feet, or lips.

Here are Some Scrapbook Decorating Options

1. These can be as cute and funny whole capturing as many feelings and memories in the process. When you look back over the years, it should be able to tell the stories and give you a glimpse into the past. Capture this with the picture you choose and the journaling.

2. Use sticker, brads, and ribbons as decoration. Keep trinkets and remembrances of the season or event such as wrapping paper from Birthday presents, cards, airline tickets, etc.

3. A bit of the hair from your baby's first haircut.

4. Quotes. Either from a book or of the child's first words or sayings.

5. Writing, journaling your feelings down is something that will be cherished forever by your child.

A idea for your babys scrapbook is something that will come to you when the occasion shows up. Go with what you feel, and that will turn out to be the best idea over time. This book is about feelings and memories, which will live forever and ever to be cherished and passed on.

You never know, your own child may steal your ideas when the time comes, and that will probably make you the proudest mom alive. Take your time creating your scrapbooks, you will definitely have fun going through it over the years.

Marcy Larsen - Close To My Heart Consultant. CTMH offers much more than just scrapbook supplies, including opportunities to make money while scrapbooking. I love to help people get started in scrapbooking. To learn more, please visit my website at http://www.marcylarsen.com

by Marcy Larsen

5 Stages of Simple Baby Scrapbooking for Busy Parents

Today parents are busy everyday with either work or taking care of children. Here I share my simple methods of scrapbooking for busy parents who are keen to keep their baby's wonderful life moments.

Stage #1 Newborn baby

For a newborn baby, the most interesting is creating hand and feet print scrapbooking. This is done by making both hands print and feet print using an ink pad on a piece of drawing paper or construction paper, then deco the paper surrounding with baby photos and some sweet embellishment.

Stage #2 Six Months Old

When your baby is six months old, they will start to learn how to eat solid food. Thus, this is the most fun moment to create your baby scrapbook. Your theme can be candid shoot of eating orange etc. Repeat the same method as new born stage, but this round not necessary to put hands or feet print.

Stage #3 Nine Months Old

Some babies at nine months old have started to crawl or try to stand with some supporting objects. At this stage interesting candid shoots of standing stunt, crawling or sitting while playing some toys is the best scrapbook topic. You can use some cute candid photo to create simple scrapbooking using colorful construction paper, with simple word such as my angel crawling experience, or my first step to learn...

Stage #4 Twelve Months Old

At twelve months old, most of babies are at beginning stage of walking. You can introduce a pair of cloth like shoes for your baby. You can make a stamp of your baby shoes on your scrapbooking as part of your layout design, with candid photo of your baby walking position next to it. Then add text such as my little angel is exploring a new change.

Stage #5 Eighteen Months Old to Two Years Old

At almost two years old, your young toddler are more interested in developing their motor skill. At this stage any candid photo of your toddler playing with motor skill training toys is the best source for your scrapbooking. You can create a toddler scrapbooking related to motor skill training experience.

Hope you like these simple methods!

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