I don't have any specific ideas for stamping but created this ideas for scrapbooking...
Showcasing Your Center Through Scrapbooking
Birthday Album: Create a 2-page layout each month of the kids as they celebrate their birthdays. Use this to market your center to prospective parents that come in for tours.
After-school Album: Create a theme album based on the after school program during the summer. Highlight a different education theme each week and plan to decorate a 2 page spread for each theme. Awesome idea to introduce parents, after-schoolers and teachers to the curriculum!
Bulletin Boards: Apply the basic concepts of page design to decorate bulletin boards in their classrooms.
Family Activities: Sponsor an evening of scrapbooking for parents to begin this tradition in their own family or families can layout two pages each of their family and family traditions to keep in the classroom.
Child Education: Use album pages to educate children in several ways: self-esteem, artistic design, accomplishment, hand-eye coordination for little ones, etc. What kid doesn’t LOVE to look at pictures and hear stories about themselves?
Portfolio Album: Orient parents, staff and children to your center including policies, photos of the children in typical activities, credentials they have received, notes of appreciation from past parents, etc.
ABC Album: Create an album using photos of the children at your center doing whatever activities they engage in that start with each letter of the alphabet. (e.g. A - for art, S - for storytime, P - for puzzles, L - for legos, etc.) It could be used with children as a springboard for language development (almost like a "storybook") or it can be used to give as a gift to the children/families in their care.
Showcasing Your Classroom Through Scrapbooking[/b]
Create one-sided pages - with pictures. Let's say - a great field trip. The children do writings and put the pages on the bulletin board with the children's writings mounted with PMP (photo mounting paper)... in order. There may be some journaling on the pages, too - done by teacher or the kids in journal boxes. When the board comes down - the pages go in with the coordinating writings on the other side (on a page) in a classroom album. The kids love these books and they are a GREAT reading tool!
Engage parents. Have parents bring in some pictures of their daily activities with their children with a description of those events. Children can layout them out in the classroom album to share with all their friends.
Simply mount the pictures and again - always coordinate the pictures with writings of the children. It can be separated into sections – e.g. Reading, Math, Social Studies, etc. (color coded pictures and photo mounting paper (PMP).)
A "Thank You" to our friends bulletin board! Take pictures of kids, volunteers or parents who come and help the class on a regular basis -- all year. Have students draw pictures or thank you notes that go with them to display on the Board. All pictures & thank you notes will be mounted later in classroom album.
Use the cutting tools to make totally awesome bulletin boards & manipulatives for math - fractions etc. Even counting circles, squares etc. Teach preschoolers shapes/ matching shapes & colors.
Gifts…photo mounting paper can't be beat for making wonderful cards for Mom's, Dads, etc. Add mounted pictures inside - what parent doesn't love a specially made card like that and if she is a scrapbooker it's ready made to put in an album.
Albums are unbeatable teaching tools. Have kids dictate the script, type it in a 20 or 22 font Arial using triple space between words and you can believe they want to read their own words in these books. I know you're doing bulletin boards, but ... if the pages from the board go into the book - they last a lifetime.
If a teacher is doing portfolios of absolutely any kind - tools are an amazing way to make the portfolio for 'whatever reason' wonderful. Make a 'page' on PMP with the children's pictures and their journaling for an "Introducing Myself" page.
Hope this gets some ideas started for you...
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~Amy
Augustine's Mom, Applied Anthropologist, Scrapping Fool and novice Stamper.
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