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This will be displayed in chapel for a week, so I want it to look nice. Does anyone have any examples of something like this they have done for their child/grandchild?
PICTORAL HISTORY BOARD (what school has called it)
anyone? Guidelines say the following:
"Some suggestions might be early baby pictures, a faborite birthday, family members, vacations, first day of school, kindergarten graduation, special interests or hobbies, fun times with friends, or receiving special awards. Each photo should have a caption that has been neatly handwritten or printed off on the computer. Feel free to embellish the board and be creative. The board will be displayed in the front hallway after your child is a Special Student in Chapel. The board will also be on display at the graduation reception."
This is for my nephew, who my MIL is raising - and my husband and I are helping her as much as we can. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of pictures of him, since his mom isn't around, and MIL has only had custody this past year - so we are worried and want it to look nice. From what we have heard (this is his first year at the school) the parents do these and they go OVER THE TOP, so he and I are going to go pick out the stuff, and then he will help me with it, but I just want an idea of where I should be going with it??? I haven't got children, and I was a teacher for several years, but I did make all my kids do their own things like this, so we are a bit intimidated and wanting it to look NICE!!! Ya know?
"Some suggestions might be early baby pictures, a faborite birthday, family members, vacations, first day of school, kindergarten graduation, special interests or hobbies, fun times with friends, or receiving special awards. Each photo should have a caption that has been neatly handwritten or printed off on the computer. Feel free to embellish the board and be creative. The board will be displayed in the front hallway after your child is a Special Student in Chapel. The board will also be on display at the graduation reception."
This is for my nephew, who my MIL is raising - and my husband and I are helping her as much as we can. Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of pictures of him, since his mom isn't around, and MIL has only had custody this past year - so we are worried and want it to look nice. From what we have heard (this is his first year at the school) the parents do these and they go OVER THE TOP, so he and I are going to go pick out the stuff, and then he will help me with it, but I just want an idea of where I should be going with it??? I haven't got children, and I was a teacher for several years, but I did make all my kids do their own things like this, so we are a bit intimidated and wanting it to look NICE!!! Ya know?
Thanks for any and all help!!!
Sounds like you could make it up like a scrapbook layout, just larger size to accommodate the posterboard. Our local scrapbook stores had all sorts of school papers, embellishments,... So maybe you can find something like that locally?
Do you have an Archiver's near you? They used to do classes on Senior posters, a very popular thing to do in Minnesota. You might check their website...
Pretty much they are very large scrapbook pages, sometimes with a clock theme (one hour for every school year), the game of "life" through pictures of the child, etc. Parents totally stress in Minnesota about this and start a year in advance for these!
Good luck! I'm sure it will turn out beautiful!
You have my sympathy - I had to move to the US at short notice with children for a family emergency and then about the first week of school the youngest gets this sort of project and to bring pictures in - um.... pictures were all in England with most of our worldly possessions.
So - we made what would could with Grandma's pictures and improvised.
Maybe with the pictures you have he could color in/draw some of his own. Or if he can write about his favorite toy maybe if you print off a picture of it from the web.
Definitely have at least one picture of him and hopefully more.
I know most boys love balls of all shapes and sizes so maybe you could "layout" each segment on different colored circles of various sizes (we all have plates to cut around! etc. It can be as Clean and Simple or as Embellished as you want it.
Need to make a "5th grade graduation" poster
