Kids grow up so fast!
My daughter and her friends ended their Nursery days last year in what turned out to be quite an emotional parting.
As a token of appreciation to the wonderful class teacher and class assistant of Nursery MK, a couple of mums gathered to put together scrapbook albums for the both of them.
First of all, we...
- bought 12" x 12" scrapbook paper in a variety of colours and 2 scrapbook albums
- bought cute, kiddy, puffy stickers and colourful alphabet stickers
- invited every mum to ask their child what they liked most about their teachers or class
- arranged for all the children to make hand prints (secretly during drop-off at school one morning)
- printed two sets of photographs per child
Then we got some of these courtesy of Summer-Ray...
Next, we met at a mum's house one bright morning while the kids were in school, and began putting the album together. We had 68 pages and 2 album covers to complete before school was out!
We printed out the names and quotes in colourful ink onto some cardstock, then cut around the edges of the card stock with pattern scissors. Like a production line in a factory, we laid out the scrapbook paper on the floor, placed the designated photos, handprints, name- and quote-print outs on the paper, and one by one we cut, arranged and glued the layout of each individual page.
Here are some of the designs we came up with.
(The names of the teachers and children have been removed for privacy and security reasons).
The album covers
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The album covers were decorated with alphabet stickers, mulberry flowers,
flat back jewels and sliced FIMO canes. |
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| A close-up of the FIMO cane slices. |
The first page(s)
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| The first page for Miss MK with a poem composed especially for her. |
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A close-up of the mulberry flowers with a swirl pattern above made from
knocking little holes through the paper |
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| FIMO cane flowers. |
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| The first page for Miss R, also with a poem composed specially for her. |
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| Who knew green and purple would look so well together? ;-) |
The rest of the pages...
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| Lavender and blue sets the theme of this page |
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| A simple design with the focus on the first picture, the flowers and handprint. |
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| A page with what looks like corner protectors. |
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Memories from Pirate Day and a Sharing Assembly.
(They love collecting sunshines for being good!) |
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A peeking handprint waving a greeting...
memories of Crazy Day when everyone came to school dressed bizzarely
to raise money for a good cause. |
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Another page which draws attention to the first picture.
The second picture was when they were learning about different modes of
transportation. |
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| It's nice to have a teacher who is a friend. |
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| They look forward to being the class leader. |
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| The cutest Captain Hook! |
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| His mom loved the dragonfly jewels. :-) |
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| Some perforated cardboard was used in this layout. |
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| Love how the kids are posing in front of the bus. |
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Instead of jewels, rhinestones or pearls, the mom who arranged
this page placed sliced FIMO canes at the center of the mulberry flowers. |
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| Ribbons and ink were the theme for this page. |
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| Cupcakes and sports day. |
Yellow frilly ribbons frame the first photo to match her cap..
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A green mulberry flower with two petals cut off and replaced with miniature
foam flowers. |
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| I like the FIMO butterflies above the big butterfly sticker. |
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| You can tell there's a lot of love in the class... |
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Another mulberry flower with petals cut away.
This time one green petal cut from another flower adds layers to the page.
The other petals of the purple flower were placed behind the top flower. |
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| This brings cherry blossoms to mind. |
We managed to finish the albums in time to fetch the kids from school.
The albums were presented to Miss MK and Miss R on the last day of school with quite a few tears from both Miss MK, Miss R.....and the mums. It was a good first year of school for our children and we were very thankful and glad that they had such loving and patient mentors.
