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Scrapping school projects

DS, who's in Kindergarten this year, has a couple school projects that I would LOVE to add to his scrapbook, but I'm not sure how. They're made using construction paper, crayons, and markers. I know none of it is acid free, but I would love to be able to add these to his album. Any ideas? One is a short book he wrote, all abotu how we got Digit. The other is a Mother's Day card he gave me today...and made me cry. Inside the card is a pre-printed sheet where he filled in blanks.

"My mother is the most wonderful mom in the whole wide world! She's as pretty as "flowers". She weighs "40" lbs and she's "20 feet" tall. Her favorite food is "burritos". In the good old days when mom was little, she used to "play". I think Mom looks funny when she "play". But I know she's really angry when she "yells". I wish Mom would "play trains" with me every day. I wouldn't trade my mother for "supper"! Happy Mother's Day. I love you!" and he signed his name. I didn't know I was 20 feet tall. But it's nice to know I only weigh 40 pounds. And since DS just loves food....knowing that he wouldn't trade me for his supper is pretty special.

So how can I scrap these or add these to a LO without running into the non acid free problem?

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Deb in AR
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scrappymissjacqui

Cute card. If you make a layout, I think as long as the non acid free stuff does not touch pictures you are ok. Just make sure to put a page protector over the whole thing. Another thing you can do is make a pocket out of an acid free page protector and clear tape. Then the item can be taken out to be viewed. Or make a pocket out of card stock. I think CM has already made acid free pockets.

I have a 3 inch regular binder for each of my kids. I put report cards, awards, art, notes, homework in acid free protectors and divide them by grade. Of course, one binder is full and it only has Preschool and Kindergarten in it. The kids love to see everything they have made. Big Art doesn't fit in there so I still need a solution for that. For now it's in a drawer.

Deb > DS, who's in Kindergarten this year, has a couple school projects that I

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dizzy d

That's so cute... put them in a pocket-page of course. Construction paper doesn't last forever, but it lasts a lot longer than you might think - I still had some of my kindergarten drawings when I was thirty, and they were a bit yellower than when they were first done, but they were in no danger of self-destruction! The acid won't magically leap from the plastic pocket holding that page to the rest of the album, and that way you can pull out the Treasures to view the insides in years to come :)

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Karen AKA Kajikit

My children seem to bring home the "larger than life" art projects that end up having to be folded to put away. So I started taking photographs of their art projects. That way you can make the picture whatever size you need on the page. With five children over the past 31 years I learned to keep a sampling from each year of their art and school papers. Sandy

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Sandy

Thanks for the ideas. I think I'm going to scan the items and use the scans directly on the LO. I really like dizzy d's idea of the school stuff going into page protectors and then in binders. The special things that I've kept from the kids' school are in boxes, but I really like the idea of the binders. It sounds like they'll at least last longer than they will in boxes! LOL

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Deb in AR

I learned early on to choose what to keep and what not to keep. DD is a packrat, though. She wants to keep everything. LOL As long as it's in her desk, it's her choice. Eventually, I will have to do the yearly chore of helping her clean out her room and most of those papers she'll decide to throw away. LOL DS wants to keep math papers, etc. But I've just said we don't keep those. LOL

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Deb in AR

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