| Two important baby scrapbook ideas to bear in mind | | | | you look at your baby scrapbook. The way to insure |
| are physical changes and milestones. First smiles, first | | | | this is to pick those topics to write about that cannot |
| roll over and crawl, first words and gestures are all | | | | help but evoke special feelings even when viewed |
| priceless and need to be recorded quickly before the | | | | years later. Some baby scrapbooking ideas might |
| infant advances to toddler hood (which could be a | | | | include: how the baby got his or her name, what does |
| whole other scrapbook and will happen in what will | | | | the name mean, how often did he or she cry, where |
| appear to be the blink of an eye)! | | | | did he or she sleep, did the baby sleep through the |
| Here are some baby scrapbook ideas, which will help | | | | night and how did the little one react around people? |
| you organize your material. | | | | Have other close relatives and friends write their |
| 1. Begin the baby scrapbook journey during your | | | | feelings about these events on a special page |
| pregnancy. | | | | designated for this purpose. |
| Start with photos from baby showers and early | | | | 5. Decorate your baby scrapbook with items that are |
| ultrasounds. Include doctor's visits and the actual | | | | baby-related. |
| delivery day. What was the weather like? Anything | | | | Although this may seem obvious, it's still a good baby |
| else special happen on that day? (Of course, there | | | | scrapbooking idea to keep in mind while trying to |
| couldn't be anything more special than baby's arrival | | | | capture as many feelings and memories about past |
| into the world.) Who was present at the birth? Doctors, | | | | happiness. Use stickers and ribbons. Keep trinkets and |
| nurses, visitors? Record it for all time in your baby | | | | mementos, even things like wrapping paper from |
| scrapbook. | | | | special presents. Capture all these moments of baby's |
| 2. Focus on the first year of life. | | | | first year with pictures and journaling. One baby |
| Some things should be written down for the sake of | | | | scrapbooking idea for use of ribbons could involve |
| posterity, like weight and length at birth for example. | | | | cutting a journaling block into strips and then tying a |
| You might also want to include color of eyes and hair, | | | | ribbon in a bow to the left end of the first strip, then |
| time of birth, doctor's name and how long you were in | | | | the right end of the second strip etc. Still another |
| labor. Other baby scrapbook ideas will come to you as | | | | effective baby scrapbooking idea for ribbon might |
| you progress in your project such as perhaps, the | | | | involve scraps, which could be made into bows and |
| price of gas, houses and cars at the time of birth and | | | | used to cover a spiral binding. |
| information on the family tree. | | | | Don't forget real mementos, such as a clip of hair from |
| 3. Use photos to indicate milestones. | | | | baby's first haircut and also famous quotes and |
| Take photos every day of the first month of life and | | | | sayings about babies and babyhood might be |
| then once a month next to a large stuffed animal. | | | | appropriate as headings or captions on the different |
| Keep a list of events connected to each month until | | | | pages. The world of literature is your source material. |
| the baby is a year old. Take pictures of different looks | | | | Try to choose selections that are not so common. It |
| and moods; happiness, sadness and don't forget the | | | | may take a little research but this is one baby |
| most adorable moments of sleeping time. Don't be | | | | scrapbooking idea that is sure to pay off at the end. |
| afraid to take too many pictures, as that can never | | | | Your baby will only be an infant for a moment in time. |
| happen in the endless search for baby scrapbook | | | | Capture it for always with a memorable baby |
| ideas. | | | | scrapbook. Use these baby scrapbooking ideas, and |
| 4. The baby scrapbook must reflect emotion. | | | | as you do you will certainly come up with ideas of |
| You want to smile and maybe even cry whenever | | | | your own. But hurry. Time's a wasting! |