Back to School Jitters…
The days are looming….the early mornings, the bus stop, the sad faces pressed against the steamy windows. SCHOOL!
Some kids are aching to get back to their daily grind after a month filled with, “I’m bored!” Other children are wishing the day would never come - especially the youngest people in your household.
This is a fun craft to help them remember (or identify for those reluctant first-timers) what they love about school!
It’s an ABC - Back-to-School Scrapbook…
Each page of the scrapbook should highlight a letter of the alphabet and an activity, object, person, etc that has that letter IN it! Don’t stress them out by trying to have a word that STARTS with that letter - that can be more difficult than you think! Especially for ‘X’!
Use your imagination, extra art supplies and your outdated magazines to complete this project with your child. It is not something you will start and finish in a day and if you time it just right, you could do a letter a day and have it completed to read together the week before school starts.
Give your child the freedom to make the choices…
“What do you love about school that starts with an ‘A’?”
If they are very young and don’t have a good grasp on letters and words, give them choices…
“Do you want your ‘S’ page to be for “Snack” or “receSS”?
Have fun and help them get comfortable with saying “good-bye” in September!
Great Scrapbooking Link
July 28th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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