Scrapbooking Multiple Kids
You’ve got more than one child and you’re finding it hard to divide your time in scrapping for all of them? Why not take some advise from some of Ali Edwards‘ readers:
MULTIPLE KIDS RESPONSES From Skipper:
I just wanted to share what works for me with scrapbooking multiple kids.
I have 6 children. 5 boys and one girl.
From the beginning, I have done a “family scrapbook”. Now within this book are many individual child pages including birthdays, special achievements, and just plain precious photos. But also in this book are special family moments, including holidays, every day life, etc. So I have, in almost chronological order, about 4 complete scrapbooks (fat ones) that the children LOVE to pour over and show off (to each other and everyone who visits). My theory in this is, no matter what, my children’s lives are full of each other. They will have thousands of special memories together. And I truly don’t want to waste a moment making 6 separate books with the same memories or thoughts or pictures. And I am also paying special attention to focus on individual children as appropriate and take advantage of every unique moment and personality we have in this home!
My plan is to be able to present to my children individual books as their “growing up” present….when they graduate college, get married, or whatever they decide. In those books will be copies of all the individual layouts for that child, PLUS special family memories, “brothers” layouts, “sister and brother” layouts, etc and the fact that they are copies means I will be able to have MANY flat pages rather than a few fat pages in one book!
Meanwhile I will have my books until I grow old.
I do want to note that I do have 3 SMALL (6×6) albums that are for special things like my daughter’s heart surgery, my 2 sons’ trip to disney world with my mom, and my oldest son’s very first theatre production in which he was the main character.
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From Melanie:
I have four children, 15, 13, 4 and nearly 2. I made them each a scrapbook/album from birth to 1 yr of their own, and from then on, all my layouts go in family albums. So Birthdays, grocery shopping, walks in the forest -whatever, all go in date order in our family album. That way I make {family} albums we all enjoy, of our life as it happens.
Hope that helps bigger families that scrapbook:)
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From Julie:
Just got your newsletter (love) and have been reading your book every spare moment (also love). I caught the question about how you handle scrapping the same event for multiple children. I do scrap the same events for both of my kids, but the layouts look completely different. In addition to random “for the art of it” pages I do, I keep three running albums, one for each child that they will take with them and one for the “family” that will stay with me. So, each event is technically done at least three times. For my daughter’s book, I will focus on photos of her and tell her “story” as it related to each event (a trip to the apple orchard, Christmas, etc.). I will do the same for my son from the point of view of what was important to him that day. And, for my album, I will give an overview as a whole. I don’t use the same products for each album, and I don’t even necessarily do them at the same time. It might be weeks or months between when I actually scrap each album. This way, it does not seem repetitive and it actually feels like three separate events.
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From Jill:
I have two kids and the thought of making 2 of every holiday & vacation LO sounds so much more like work than fun. I don’t want scrapbooking to become to difficult or I would lose my motivation. I have a family album every year and separate albums for each of the kids. In the family album I make LOs for every family activity such as holidays, vacations or everyday events that include both kids. If a LO pertains to just one child, it goes in their personal album (birthdays, friends, sports, lost tooth, etc). So no, their own albums don’t contain much about family events but they can fight over the family albums some day! I also find that I have started making some single page LOs with one particular child during a holiday or vacation (from their perspective), if I feel inspired, but it is not a duplicate of the family album. Who wants to become an assembly line?
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From Chrissy:
I have two kiddos, so I thought I would respond. In the beginning, when Felix was just a little guy, it seemed like every picture I took of him had his big brother, Simon, in it. If the story pertained to both, I would create a seperate LO for each and tell the story from their point of view. I usually stuck with the same design, even the same picture if it applied. As Felix has gotten older and started to develop more of his own personality, I’ve noticed that I’m not making many duplicate LO’s. Hope that helps. I’m including some examples. The first set is an example of my using the same LO, just different pictures. The second set is an example of using the same set of pictures to tell two different stories. ===
From Christen:
I have 4 kids. The way I decided to handle this was to have a family album that I scrapbook everything that is important to me. I also have an individual book for each of my kids…it has first day of school, birthdays, halloween costumes and awards, and more individual type of things that they are into. It has maybe 3-5 pages per year plus drawings and school stuff that I know they’d want to keep. I only kept it up through elementary school for my daughters, at that point they wanted to start to doing their own albums and books. My youngest is a boy and is in 6th grade, I’m not sure how long I’ll keep it going for him, as he doesn’t seem as interested in taking pictures and working on it himself. ===
From Catherine:
I’m the mom of six kids….yes,I know, it boggles the mind. But here’s how I solve the multiple kids issue. I have almost always scrapped 8.5 x 11 for family “events”. I started out separating the stacks of pictues by who was in them and scrapped multiples of each event. I quickly discovered that this would eventually drive me out of my mind…not to mention how amazingly time-consuming it was. Enter the color copy. I scrap an event only once with a good cross-section of photos and then get color copies made which go into my kid’s binders. I keep the originals. That way everyone gets the event documented.
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