ReNEWit Thursday- Get The Kids Involved!
Hello, Everyone! It’s time for July’s ReNEWit challenge, and this month, we’ll focus on ways you can involve your kids in your repurposing efforts.
Here is your printable freebie for this month’s challenge:
This printable is extremely simple- as you can see, it has a large space for pictures, and below it is a space for writing. This is a great tool for elementary school children to practice their writing and story-writing skills. Here is one of my daughter’s pages:
Here’s where the repurposing comes in. You can certainly print these onto new, clean sheets of paper, and I certainly encourage you to do so. However, I plan to use another source of paper.
These are the separator sheets that accompany my print jobs at work. I have a stack of them that is easily 2 inches thick. While I could turn this feature off, there are enough print jobs that come through this printer on a daily basis, and not everyone thinks enough to look through their pick-ups to see if anyone else’s stuff got mixed in. Many of these sheets end up in the Shred-It bins next to the printer, designed to secure sensitive print jobs in accordance to HIPPA and patient privacy guidelines. Wow! That service is expensive, and it’s not really recycling. I’ve since decided to save my sheets and do something else with them.
My daughter is currently on summer vacation, and her teachers have encouraged us to keep working on her reading and writing over the summer. As expected, this can be easier said than done. How can I encourage her to write, when she’d rather be outside? I remembered the books that she brought home over the course of the year. Her elementary school has a Publishing Shop, and she was allowed to take the stories she had written and have them bound into books using chipboard, fabric, and duct tape. Here’s one that she made me for Mother’s Day:
She is amazingly proud of these books, and they will be a great keepsake for me. Probably just as important as the multitude of pages that I create about her. So, I made a deal with my daughter- she writes me stories, and I will bind them for her into books.
I created the printable sheet to resemble the pages that she used at school, and I am printing them as she needs them from the stack of print job separators. At the end of the summer, I will take her collected works and bind them together using my Bind-It-All machine.
I realize that there are many of you out there with no children, or grown children. No worries- this printable can be used by you, too! Print two of these on a single sheet and fold the sheet in half- you now have two pages to draw page sketches, jot down scraplift ideas, or other scrapping ideas!
Do you have a stack of paper that still has one usable side? Then you can get in on this challenge! Your challenge this month is use the printable to give new life to a sheet of scrap paper. Use it for a writing project for your child, have your child create their own scrapbook page (put pictures in the drawing space and journal at the bottom), sketch a new page, write your shopping list or take measurements to buy new curtains for the living room. The beauty of this hybrid challenge is you can participate even if you have a printer that doesn’t do the best job at color recreation. If you can print black and white, you’re in business! When you post your “completed” printable sheet in the challenge thread and the gallery, let me know what you used- it will help inspire others!
Here are the reminders for the Matter of Scrap Challenges:
- This challenge runs until July 31st
- Any layout you make for this challenge for points cannot be used for another challenge (no “Double Dipping”)
-If you include a new ScrapMatters product (released within a week of you posting your project), and indicate likewise in the thread and the gallery, you earn a bonus point
- One random entry will be selected at the end of the month for another bonus point
I’m looking forward to see what you can do!
