Scrapbooking lovers have a few benefits they can experience during and after their scrapbooking and paper crafting activities. The first of them is included in the artistic hobbies themselves; they give them the opportunity to flow through emotions and experiences, which improves emotional health over time. The second gift is that they can hone a certain set of skills through practice. And a third gift that scrapbooking provides can be seen as collecting: the ability to incorporate new lessons, new concepts, and new and innovative thinking into other parts of their lives as a result of what happened during scrapbooking.
For a practical example of the first concept, consider making an apparent scrapbook of a collection of family photos for hours, immersing yourself deeply in the moments of flux where new thoughts enter and time stands still, and come to the conclusion that it is a “lightbulb” moment. so to speak. Those insightful revelations that are likely to come when the logical mind takes a break and the creative mind steers the wheel can go a long way in improving our lives, especially in the realm of things we end up incorporating into our scrapbooking practices. : Family moments, individual goals and treasures and concepts that make us feel more alive.
Papermaking in schools generally takes one of two forms. The second is similar to the first benefit above, where the creative mind leads scrapbookers to commemorate emotional events and the result generates a sense of satisfaction. Examples of this are the handmade Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day and Father’s Day cards, which many children are encouraged to make early on in their education.
The second way that scrapbooking concepts are traditionally used in schools is for learning purposes. Learning to spell through crafts is a practice used in schools by teachers who instruct children to cut letters from paper, add them, make sounds, and rearrange the collection of words. Somewhere in the country there is a teacher with several sheets of paper representing different animals and letters and a class is directed at interpreting them into words. Although we often see preschoolers using scissors, cut-out words, and photo-letter collage to match new concepts with mindful creative work, the idea of crafting to solidify “left brain” concepts is not it is set aside strictly for early childhood education.
How middle school students are encouraged to explore the meaning of collages through group projects that require poster board and symbolic representations of the main points of the material they have been studying, and how middle and high school students are encouraged to do Annual science projects that combine a multitude of images, graphs, and words to express thoughts, the major elements of scrapbooking in educational systems become increasingly clear.
The reason we don’t stop scrapbooking at any age is simply what many in the education system have discovered; we do not think simply in terms of sentences. We think in terms of symbols and pieces that fit together. And it is also easier for us to remember information when we advance in a project that allows us to play with these symbols and collect them as unifying concepts that reinforce the same idea.
