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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 15, 2018 17:59:39 GMT
(not just school portraits - but the whole school album)
School photos are what's on my desk right now.
I thought it would be fun if we share our ideas on ways to scrap school pictures.
One tip that I'm just finally letting myself believe: It's okay to dedicate only a couple pockets (like PL pockets), instead of a whole page, on a school event. The albums can really bulk up when there is a page for each special shirt day, silly socks day, etc. Sometimes I have to be okay to slip those pics into pockets, and give myself free reign to use a whole page (or two!) on special events with bunches of pics.
Take close-up, clear photos of school logos and emblems, then use circle punches to make school-specific embellishments.
Also with school logos & emblems: Punch/cut them from school letterhead that come home by the dozens with each notice.
Buy enamel dots/shapes in your school's colors. Especially if your school has a uniform policy and almost every pic of your kid taken at school wearing the same two/three colors.
Please share any tips or ideas you have! I love hearing them all!!
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Post by dudleypippen on Nov 15, 2018 20:13:31 GMT
Love these! Our elementary school communicates quite a bit through an app, so I’ve been known to take screenshots and include those in pockets.
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caangel
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Post by caangel on Nov 15, 2018 22:24:02 GMT
Love these! Our elementary school communicates quite a bit through an app, so I’ve been known to take screenshots and include those in pockets. What app do they used? We are looking to add one. (Sorry for the tangent!) |
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Nov 15, 2018 22:38:25 GMT
Love these! Our elementary school communicates quite a bit through an app, so I’ve been known to take screenshots and include those in pockets. What app do they used? We are looking to add one. (Sorry for the tangent!) I know this wasn't addressed to me, but our school uses ClassDOJO. Very useful. |
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kelly8875
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Post by kelly8875 on Nov 15, 2018 22:54:35 GMT
My kids’ school pages are organized by album, according to the building they were in. They aren’t mixed into normal
Daily life albums.
Our district has buildings that are:
K-4
5-6
7-9
10-12
So, my albums go like this (they each have 3 albums)
K-4
5-9
10-12
I stuck to things like the school picture, class picture, and candid pics that came home, party days, first/last day of school. A little more basic stuff. I do have a clear tote of papers and such for K-4 also, so that stuff didn’t go in this album.
5-9 is hard to get stuff, so I was able to consolidate those years. DS played football for one season in 7th grade. DD played clarinet for 4 years, but those actually are going in their own book. I included pocket pages for each grade to any work that did happen to come home, and report cards.
DS did varsity dance team 3 years, so those are also in their own books to cover the 11 month seasons.
Senior year has more pages because of end of year events. High school also adds more pages for homecoming & prom.
Our LSS does a great job of having local school papers, and stickers.
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Post by dudleypippen on Nov 15, 2018 23:14:47 GMT
Love these! Our elementary school communicates quite a bit through an app, so I’ve been known to take screenshots and include those in pockets. What app do they used? We are looking to add one. (Sorry for the tangent!) We use Dojo as well. It’s worked well. Our daycare uses Kidsnote. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Nov 16, 2018 0:53:16 GMT
Our schools go Pre-K through 5th, 6th through 8th, and 9th through 12th so that’s how I’ll do DD’s albums. They only do a couple big events each year and I don’t take pics of every little thing so I don’t think her albums will fill up too fast.
For the recurring events that have a lot of photos, I designed some overlays that have a bunch of openings for 3”x4” photos that I can use every year and I just print two on a 4x6 and cut them in half. It just kind of streamlines the process for those photos because they’re all pretty much the same year after year. That way I dont have to think about them too hard and I can put my effort into the pages that I’m more excited to work on like the musicals and holiday parties.
Something that happened by accident was that I ordered some dies on Amazon and got with them free a small horse die. I didn’t think of it at the time it came, but the mascot for our whole district is a pony. Then ding! Ding! Ding! The light went on and I realized it would be great for school pages so I cut a bunch of them in school colors to use on spirit pages for the homecoming week events they do district wide at all the schools.
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Post by stinkerbelle on Nov 16, 2018 20:55:17 GMT
i don't have any tips really, other than either just get over the fact that school collections never match your photos or use generic papers to scrap those photos.  i do use school collections because i enjoy buying them and i'm not one who worries about anything coordinating with my photos. i also do not do school albums; any pages i do just get stuck in an album randomly, like the rest of my pages. |
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Post by 950nancy on Nov 16, 2018 21:47:16 GMT
Almost all of my kids' school pictures have the same bold blue background. Most paper lines really don't match. The icons rarely match what my kids did either, but it is what it is. I have maybe 4 to five photos per year of my kids in school. I taught at the same building so I was always in class teaching when they were doing their fun stuff in class.
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