Early Preschool Album Wrap-Up

Howdy Weekend!

Hope yours is going well.  We are having "extreme heat warnings" here.  Woohoo.

OK, here's my quick wrap up of my son's 1st year of preschool album I've been sharing.  In case you haven't been keeping up with this (WHAT?  You mean you don't read every*single*little thing I write?!!  LOL.) I've been sharing the album I created for my son's 1st year of preschool 2 years ago.  The album is by far no scrapbooking masterpiece but it's cohesive, it has a general theme, and it's appropriate for the subject matter.  Now I just have to make his 2nd year of preschool album.  And his Kindergarten album.  And The Girl's 1st year of preschool album.  LOL. 

February

March

I like my little Cricut die cut of bugs in a jar.  It's hard to tell but the bugs are made out of iridescent-looking alcohol inked paper.

April

May

They had the Phoenix Zoo come out this month and bring some interesting animals with them for the kids to see.  This was my favorite one...a hedgehog.  I will SOMEDAY have a hedgehog of my very own!!!

I also included a few specialty pages at the back of the scrapbook focusing on specific things.  This particular one shows my son's handwriting progress from the beginning to the end of the year. 

That alphabet border was THE REASON I purchased the Cricut Graphically Speaking cartridge!  Isn't it awesome?  This IS a 12x12 page.  (A bitch to extract from the paper but awesome nonetheless!) 

Tomorrow we go to meet The Boy's 1st grade teacher.  I'm so excited.  He starts back to school this coming Thursday.  He's so looking forward to it. 

Keep cool!

Heidi

More Early Preschool Pages

Hey there!

More preschool pages sharing.  This is going to be a quick one but I wanted to put some more "out there".   I promise I'll have some more recent layouts and things to share later this week.

October

No, I did not cut off the bottom of the picture...the pictures and calendar run off the pages at an angle like that on purpose.  Just trying to mix it up, kwim?

This is one of my favorite Cricut die cuts...a wooden basket complete with hardware full of autumn leaves. 

November

I love this die cut.  I used it here and on December (because both months' themes were about the world).  This is a Silhouette machine die cut.  I absolutely love the images my Silhouette offers but despise using the machine itself so I don't use it that often. 

December

That Buzz Lightyear picture is the cover of his first ever writing journal! 

This is a real chalkboard!  I wrote on it with white gel pen, of course.  If memory serves, I made the little piece of chalk out of a Dum Dums lollipop stick.  Soooo loved that embossed star paper.

That's it for today.  I think I'm going to go play with some paint and gesso and xerox copies.  :oD

Heidi

Early Preschool Scrapbook

Sorry I've been hiding under a rock lately.  I've just not been feeling very "scrappy".  I don't know if it's the oppressive weather or the wear of school summer vacation getting to me or what but I'm just feeling blah.  

My son's 1st grade teacher assignment letter (finally) arrived on Thursday and as I troll around trying to figure out who from his Kindergarten class will be in his new one (so far I've only found one, sigh) my thoughts are turning to getting the school scrapbooks started.  I've been sifting through the year's-worth of papers (I didn't purge as we went so I have practically every single scrap of paper from the last year) and gathering together pictures. 

So why am I telling you this?  Because the only almost completed school scrapbook I have so far was made almost 2 years ago now for my son's first (of two) year of preschool and although it's not very impressive or artistic, I thought I'd share some of it over the next few days. 

As I said, it's pretty basic, but as I looked it over for the first time in about a year a few days ago I was struck by how much I liked it.  It's fun.  It's bright.  It's "kid-worthy".  It's cohesive with an obvious theme.  And it's very in-depth.

Every month spans two pages, has a calendar noting what they did and other highlights from my son's life, includes an embellishment to introduce the theme of the month, and has lots of pictures. 

I will apologize right now...my overall apathy prevented me from even taking the pages out of the scrapbook for photographing so the pictures may be a bit warped-looking with glare from the page protectors. 

The theme for August was "All About Me", apt for the first month of school ever, don't you think.  :o)

The tag retells a story my son shared with me about an encounter he had with a beetle on the playground.  And the picture shows all the little treasures he brought home to me during those first few weeks of settling in.  (I photographed the rocks, stick, and fake flower so I could dispose of them but the gem is really sitting there on top of the picture.)  He can be painfully shy and doesn't generally make friends - he waits to be made a friend instead - so he spent his first few weeks on recess digging for things in the sand.  

September's theme was "Our Community" and McGruff the Crime Dog and a fireman visited their school.  The fireman even brought the firetruck which they toured and they got to spray the hose! 

I thought my little school bus was pretty cute. 

Many of my embellies in this book are Cricut die cuts. 

OK, well that's it for today.  I'll share a few more pages this week. 

Off to continue sorting the Kindergarten papers.

Hope you're keeping cool!

Heidi