Children's Hope International E-Newsletter

ALSO IN THIS ISSUE:

Photo Essay
Returning to Her Homeland and Giving to Her Heritage

DEVELOPMENT AID:

Geneva Global Foundation
Lives Changed in Henan

BLOG OF THE MONTH:

Made for an Angel
Raising the Money to Fly to His New, and Only, Little Brother

PARENT-TO-PARENT:

Parent-To-Parent
Almost Magic - the Connection Between Mother and Child

* * Calling all Young Artists * *

Stick figures to masterpieces - share your child's art with Children's Hope. Scan the art and e-mail the digital file to Jennifer Newcomb.

PROGRAM UPDATES:

	China A Surprise for 22 Children's Hope China Families, Referrals Received "Early"
	Colombia Homecomings!
	Ethiopia Ethiopia's First Adoptions
	Kazakhstan How it Works: Adopting from Kazakhstan
	Russia Awaiting Re-Accreditation
	Vietnam Healthy and Special Needs Referrals

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Met Cinderella, Scored My First Goal...Remember Forever, What You Did This Summer

Cutting, coloring, and gluing with glitter paint�these activities might make up a fun day in kindergarten...or the scrapbooking table! Bring your scrapbooking skills down to your child�s level and let them in on the fun. As the summer winds to a close, this is a great way to get your kids involved in their own scrapbooking (whether you are an avid scrapbooker or not!) and remember all summer sun and fun.

Materials:

Construction Paper
Scissors
Paint, Crayons or Colored Pencils
Summer Photos
(printed digital photos are great...just print a second or third copy if there is a scissor disaster!)
Magazine and Old Cards
Child�s Summer Artwork

Instructions:

Just like a scrapbooker would do, let your child�s imagination journey...don�t tie them up to a book right away, but give him or her individual pages to design. For a mini-scrapbooking endeavor, cut construction paper into 8�x8� squares pages.

Optional: preprinted scrapbook pages are available at most craft stores...let your child pick out a favorite, regardless of how silly the color mix.

If your child is older and more patient, go for a Top 10 Favorite Things book.

Have your child list their favorite things they did this summer. Use creative and fun titles describing each activity on its own page.

Cut out the photos related to each favorite activity. Be imaginative in how you cut your photos...hearts, stars, baseballs...you name it.

Cut out any magazine pictures, cards or artwork to fill in when your camera was MIA.

For an extra parental touch, write any captions that might make the page more meaningful to your son or daughter. Or leave the book as a child�s creation

When writing captions, write them out on a separate page.

Cut the caption out to glue to the construction paper, using a contrasting color to stand out.

If you make mistakes they will be off the page, not on.

Arrange everything on the page to ensure you like the look. Once everyone�s happy, glue it all together.

Staple or whole punch the pages and cord together with a favorite yarn or ribbon for a finished product that may rival your best adult scrapbooking pages.

Is your child too active for an entire scrapbook?

Try just a single page. Cover the completed page with clear contact paper for preservation, use as a picture to hang on the wall or construct a placemat by gluing the single page to an appropriately sized piece of poster board.

Scrapbook page images were taken from www.chandlercreations.com.