Your Child’s Halloween Scrapbook
By
Chris Kullstroem
Just about every child is crazy about Halloween. Picking out a costume, carving pumpkins and trick-or-treating are ways to be creative and use their imagination. This Halloween, give your child a fun project that will make them enjoy the season even more. Let them create their very own Halloween scrapbook.
To start, let your child
pick out their own scrapbook. At the craft store, show them a selection
of small 5x7” scrapbooks to choose from. Once they’ve picked one out, let them choose some Halloween stickers and a small stack of autumn-themed craft paper. At home, put all of their pencils, crayons and markers in a plastic pumpkin or cauldron for their Halloween work station.
Use the following ideas
for different items that you and your child can work on together to put
into the scrapbook:
- Colorful leaves your
child collects when the two of you go for autumn walks in the woods
or through the park
- Halloween cards or
invitations they receive to Halloween parties from family and friends
? Halloween drawings and paintings they make, as well as pages from
Halloween coloring books they’ve done
- Halloween crafts
that they make in school
- Crafts they make
at home or that the two of you make together, such as pumpkins or ghosts
made from construction paper or Halloween cards to send out
- Souvenirs from a
Halloween party, such as a gift bag or a nametag
- A list of your child’s
Halloween favorites, such as their favorite Halloween TV special, their
favorite Halloween song, and what they like most about Halloween
- Pictures from your
little photographer. Give your child a small disposable camera so they
can take their own pictures of their Halloween adventures, such as
going to a pumpkin patch, going to a Halloween party, decorating the
house and
helping to bake pumpkin bread or ghost cookies
- Pictures that you
take of them of picking out pumpkins, carving or painting their pumpkin,
in their Halloween costume, and trick-or-treating
Encourage your child
to be creative by putting Halloween stickers and a variety of autumn-themed
craft paper throughout their scrapbook. On the first
page, have them title their scrapbook, such as “Jessie’s Halloween Scrapbook, 2006.”
This is a great craft
for the Halloween season because it’s something the two of you can create together and look back on each Halloween. The scrapbook is also something your child can show their friends and family after the season, and share with the class during show-and-tell. Start this new craft with your child today, and you may even turn Halloween scrapbooking into a yearly tradition that you and your child can enjoy together with each new season!
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