Craft of the Century

Today several of my homeschool mom friends and I took our kids to the local scrapbook store, Main Street Memories, for a fun field day trip to make Paperbag Scrapbooks (lunch bag size).  Have you seen these before?  We had so much fun!  Here are pictures from today…
My friend Marian working with her daughter Malerie

My friend DeDe working with her daughter Claire

The proud scrapbooker!

The older boys really got into it too!!

And the younger ones were quite content with puzzles after they got tired of scrapbooking.

My little fashion bug showing off her ballerina stickers on her scrapbook.

Here is the end result.  This is my son’s scrapbook!

And in the open end of the paper bag there is room for a tag.  It’s pictured here.  Cool, huh?

And on the end of the bag where the bottom fold is there’s place to do a little flap work.

Here’s some of the pictures my son added to his album.

If any of you want to know how to do the entire craft it’s simple.  Take 3-4 lunch bag size paper bags, punch holes in the middle of them where you can run a ribbon to use as the spine of the scrapbook.  Paper size is cut at 5.5 by 5.5 and fit well on each page.  You can theme the pages or do each one seperately.  The tabs that go inside the open part of the paper bags are just a bit smaller and can have a simple die cut or ribbon added onto them so that you can easily pull them from their protective pocket.  Add stickers, diecuts or ribbon to embellish the book.  Oh, they are such great fun!  And you can do them at home!!!!