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Make your
own Scrapbook
Now that you
have seen what Victorian children place in their scrapbook, how
about making your own!
1. Gather together blank paper or coloured construction paper and
cut four squares 24 inch long by 12 inch wide.
2. Buttonhole stitch the edges all around with bright coloured thick
thread or worsted.(fig.1)
3. Then places square neatly together and stitch them directly through
the center with strong thread.(fig.2)
4. Fold over and stitch again. (fig.3)
5. Pick a favorite story or nursery rhythm. Then pick cards and
images that you can use in recreating your story. Cut figures out
or parts of figures from different books, cards etc. and then paste
them together forming new combinations of characters that you can
use in your own story. Place characters in your scrapbook so as
to create youÕre own version of a favorite story or nursery rhythm.
For example gathering pictures of a large plant and placing a little
boy climbing it you can recreate Jack and the Bean stock.
6. By cutting the figures into pieces you can make your figures
do what is require of them in the story. For example standing figures
can be made to sit by cutting their legs off and replacing them
with feet. Human heads may be ruthlessly torn from the bodies to
which they belong and then taped or glued upon strange animal shoulders.
You will be surprised to see what amusing and often excellent illustrations
present themselves as the result of a little ingenuity in clipping
and pasting.
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