Use That Mountain of School Papers
This is why I save nearly every piece of paper my daughter has brought home since preschool 4 years ago. Don’t get me wrong, my house isn’t large enough (nobody’s house is!) to keep EVERY thing she brings home from school (and Lord help me if she catches me throwing something away!), but things like this paper where she’s written something with her little hand just melt my heart. I’ve put them all in a binder and I look them once in a while to see if something “speaks” to me.
And this one did. Summer wrote this at Thanksgiving time in first grade. I was so touched that this kid was feeling thankful for her kittens and that she was appreciative of them. Course, you notice she doesn’t list her MOM or DAD on here, but that’s okay, right? At least that’s what I’m telling myself 
Then to top it off my little artist drew pictures of all her kittens to go along with the sentiment. I ended up not liking the end result of my scrapbook page, but I like that I preserved this memory so I’m leaving it alone.
One of my friends (hi klo!) said when I showed her this, “I never thought about cutting up the kids’ papers before.” Well, I never thought about it either until now. I have papers where she has practiced her handwriting, lines and lines of the same letters over and over again. I intend to just cut one row of those letters off the page and use it and throw the rest of the paper away (don’t tell Summer!) So who’s gonna be the next scrapper to make a page with the kids’ school papers? I would love to see them.
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LOL Really cute! I have made lo’s from Boomer’s paper he has brought home. I even made lo’s with hsi name tags from his 2 years (3 & 4 Years old) of preschool.
Thats a great idea! I did this with some of my youngest son’s school journal. But since it was in a journal and I could’t take the pages out (the teacher gave each of the kids a blank hardback book to journal in that year…that was probably 15 years ago! *L*) I scanned some of his handwriting and drawings and used them on some pages. It’s a super way to preserve those sweet childhood moments using thier own things!
This is such a cute page Corinna! I love that you used your daughter’s artwork. That is a neat kitty food label too!
Congrats on your new blog! I wish you the best! It looks like you are off to an awesome start!
Smiles,
Chris
Great idea! I should dig out some of the older kid’s stuff. I saved this little “book” Tyler made for me once when he was misbehaving. He titled it “I am a bad boy” or something…and it cracks me up at how he tells me he is going to remedy his bad behavior-truly priceless. Wonder if he will write me a new one today.
How cute, I love how you Incooperated the Label and your childs art work, what a fun layout and totally what scrapbooking should be about, preserving those precious memories. Great Blog!
What a cute idea! I too have tons and tons of papers (you can imagine with a 21 yo and an 18 yo along with my Dalton…) I’ve got wonderful stories they’ve written and handwriting samples too along with tons of their precious artwork. I’ve been trying to get to where I could scan them all and get them on disc! I like this idea better lol…
Congrats on your blog Corinna! Looks like fun!
Love the layout. What a great idea to cut the papers. I take pictures of the kids with their projects when I can and use the photos but I love the idea of using pieces of some of the papers too.
YOU GO GIRL. I am sooooooo glad you did this. I have ‘files’ of my kids school papers and have wanted to do something like this, but I thought I had to keep the paper intact and couldn’t figure out how I was going to pull that one off. Thanks for the inspiration, now I can start making the ‘p(h)iles’ go a way and into albums where they belong.