Kindergarten Schoolwork Scrapbook

I realized a while back when I was talking about Noell Hyman at Paperclipping.com and her schoolwork scrapbook video that I purchased that I had not actually shown my project on here.  So here it is!

The cover is my favorite part.  I used American Crafts papers that looked “schoolish.” 

The hardest part was actually paring down all the TONS of schoolwork that I had saved.  I had thrown things away all year long as she brought them home, but I still ended up with 4 binders stuffed full of paperwork.  Ridiculous.  I took Noell’s advice and cut a lot of things up, which makes it easier to fit into the scrapbook, which is made from a file folder and hence can’t be TOO bulky or it will never close!  I also did lots of layering, putting things underneath other things so it’s very interactive where you have to lift to look and see.  I am so thankful to Noell for coming up with this tutorial, because her videos are so nicely done and she explains how to do it all so well.  There are some things that I’m not happy with in my book.  I didn’t concentrate so much on the design of the pages for this first one, just wanted to get everything squeezed in there and get it done, so I didn’t add a lot of decoration inside and didn’t lay out the design the same way I would have if it were a “real” scrapbook page, and I will be focusing more on that for the next one. 

This is what I’m talking about when I say there’s a lot of layering.  See the little tab on the bottom right corner of this drawing?  The one that says lift?

Well, when you lift that up, underneath is where I journaled about my daughter’s love of drawing and bright colors.  And I didn’t have to use any extra space because it’s all underneath her artwork.

I don’t know if Noell did her book this way, but I tried to separate my schoolwork papers into monthly sections.  I tried to spread out the schoolwork so that there was something from every month through the year, and at the beginning of each new month of papers I would put a title on the first page in the section.  Nothing fancy, as you can see below.   

You’ll notice more of the little tabs that say “lift” or “up” to look underneath the top paper also.

I did lots of chopping papers up.  Really, why keep a whole 8×10 sheet of paper full of practice writing when you can just use a small portion and be able to squeeze more into your book?  Lift up this page and see underneath.

I also made sure to do a pocket page.  In her next books I will be making more than 1 of these because I really liked being able to just stick a few things inside there.

And there you have it!  Thank you, Noell, for doing such a fabulous video about how to make this schoolwork scrapbook.  Noell also donated to my auction to deliver Anita’s scrapbook to Canada, and I am VERY grateful to her for that also.  Go check out her website and purchase this tutorial if you’re interested in making this book yourself.  It’s $8 and worth every cent.  I love Paperclipping and Noell’s videos so much that I have a premium membership and I highly recommend it to everyone.  In fact, I’m now an affiliate of Paperclipping, meaning if you click on the Paperclipping ad that’s over there in the right column and buy a membership I might make a few cents!  So what are you waiting for?  ha ha