Mother/Child Questionnaire

Here's a fun idea for a scrapbook page.  Create a mother/child (or father/child) questionnaire.  Think of five questions you could ask your child about you, and you answer the same five questions about your child.  It's so much fun to see how your child answers your questions at different ages.  Also, your child will love seeing your answers about them.  After you have each question answered, include it on a scrapbook page with pictures of you and your child.

I did a page with questions for my son and me.  Here are the five questions I asked:

Questions for child:
1. What is your mom's favorite thing to do?
2. What is your mom's favorite thing to eat?
3. Where is your mom's favorite place to go?
4. Name one thing you like about your mom?
5. What is your favorite thing to do with your mom?

Questions for mom:
1. What is Dylan's favorite thing to do?
2. What is Dylan's favorite thing to eat?
3. Where is Dylan's favorite place to go?
4. Name one thing you like about Dylan?
5. What is your favorite thing to do with Dylan?

Here is my completed scrapbook page:

Using Favorite Quotes in Scrapbooks

I keep a collection of my favorite quotes. They are nice to read on days when I need encouragement or inspiration. A great idea would be to use a favorite quote as the central idea for a scrapbook page. After you pick the quote you want to use, then find pictures that go well with that quote.  Here are a few pages I've done with quotes.

  

A page with a quote and some pictures would make a great title page to an album.  This one is the title page for a Christmas album.

Albums by Theme

I like to create themed albums instead of albums by year. For example, I have one album I use as my Christmas album. I started with pictures from 2009. I create several pages for each year. I create a new title page, or chapter for the start of each year. I keep adding pages for several years until the album is full. That way, I can look through one album and see the memories of several Christmases, and see how much the kids have changed over the years.

organizing digital photos tip

Organizing photos:

To organize digital photos on your computer, make a folder and label it by year. Inside the year folder, make a folder for each month.  Place all photos as you take them in the current months folder. If you keep this up during the year, it will be much easier than having to weed through a mass of photos trying to figure out what year and month they were taken.