Page Toppers

• ABCDEFG - tell me what you think of me!
• Ain't I Something!
• All About Me
• All Grown Up
• Almost Famous
• Another day
• Be All You Can Be
• The best thing to spend on kids is time
• Bless the Beasts and Children
• Bless the Child
• Book Worms
• Brief Encounters
• A Candid Moment
• Childhood is a journey, not a race
• Children learn what they live
• Color the world with love (crayon theme or coloring pictures)
• Couch Potato
• Day to Day
• Days of our lives
• Did you ever have to make up your mind?
• Hangin' Out
• Hangin' With the Boys (girls, family)
• Here's The Scoop
• How Do You Do It
• How Time Flies
• I Know What I Like
• I Wanna Talk About Me
• I Want to Hold Your Hand
• I'm A Big Kid Now
• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery
• Inside the Mind of a Child
• It runs in the family
• It's Just my Imagination, running away with me
• It's the little things in life that matter
• Just another day
• Just Hangin' around
• Just Hangin' out together (trees or playground equipment)
• Just Me and My Dad!
• Kids Zone
• A lazy day
• Me and My Shadow
• Milestones
• The Mod Squad
• Mommy I Want ____ Pease?
• More, More, More
• The More the Merrier
• Motor Mouth
• My favorite people
• My Favorite Things
• Only in a world of love can we unfold and bloom.
• A Picture Perfect Day
• Picture-Perfect Memories
• Precious Treasures
• Preschool Blues
• Put Your Hand in the Hand
• A quiet place to sit and think
• Raised on Country Sunshine.
• Reach high and touch the stars (stars stickers)
• Sharp as a Tack
• Smart as a Whip
• Snowflakes and little girls (or boys) - there are no two alike
• Special times
• A Stumble Is Not a Fall
• Take time for the little things
• TGIF
• That's Life
• These are a few of my favorite things
• These children were raised on home grown love
• This and That
• Warning! I am TWO!
• Way To Go
• The way you do the things you do
• When I grow up I want to be...
  (photos that relate to occupations)
• You can't fit a round peg in a square hole

Fun and Games

The Light of My Life

Happy/Sad Good/Bad

Bed Time

• All Wrapped up
• I'm far from tired
• Miles to go before I sleep
• My Blankie
• Also see Sleeping and Waking

Busy as a Bee

Cute - and not so Cute!

Wild Thing

Stacy Kocur did a page using the title "Wild Thing, You Make My Heart Sing". The letters for Wild Thing were very large and cut out of various animal prints. The other letters were animal print sticker letters but could be cut out as well. She had a picture of her son and music notes and wild animal stickers on the page along with a letter telling him how much he meant to her and some of the things she loved about him.

Then and Now Sentiments Album

I made a Then and Now sentiments album showing my children as babies or very young on left side of the page and then as recent as possible on the right side of the page. Since my children are 15, 18, and 20, there was quite a difference in the pictures. I originally made the album to show potential customers. I liked it so much that I made one for each of the grandparents using pictures of the kids with the grandparents when they were very young and then as recently as possible. I have a lot of customers that decided to make one similar for their parents after seeing mine. (Bet)

Sentiments Album Idea

My niece, Kristy Helton made one for one of her sons. Have you ever read, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear who do you see?" (by Bill Martin) Anyway, she started with a photo of her son on the first page and wrote, "Traeton, Traeton, who do you see?" Turn the page..."I see Ashlyn (sister) looking at me" with a picture of Ashlyn. Then, "Ashlyn, Ashlyn, who do you see?" Turn the page..." I see Trent (brother) looking at me." Each page had a different family member including pets and grandparents. The last page had a picture of the whole family with the words, "I see the Heltons (their last name) looking at me." (By LisaCMC)

Page Ideas

• Where's my Daddy? - He's taking the pictures!
  (one of my customers used this when she realized that all the photos of her daughter's first week were of baby, mom and grandparents - since Dad was the only one among them who liked to use a camera he wasn't in the photos.)
• Take photos from a child's eye level
• Send a disposable camera to the baby-sitters or preschool
• What I want to be? Use extra and duplicate photos of children that fit with various occupations. For example: playing in the trash - garbage man; wearing sunglasses - movie star; wearing a bathing suit - miss America; playing with your pots and pans - chef; etc.
• Take a photo of a child in something the parent wore at the same age.
• Draw a road all around the page for a border. Put various vehicle stickers on the road. Use with photos of your child on trikes, toy cars, etc. If they were born on Thursday use the title "Thursday's Child Has Far to Go" otherwise use "On the Go"
• Cut photos of your child in the shapes of the letters of his/her name. Or use small photos to form the letters of their name.
• Put photos of the child up to some kind of mischief. Put thin strips of black paper vertically on the page to look like a prison cell. Next to the bars write things like "You can't prove a thing", "Innocent?", "You have the right to remain silent", "Lock him up and throw away the key", etc. (Janell Fisher)

I was in charge of decorations for our NSD. I put together a kit for each customer with a zig zag ruler; a 12" strip of green paper, with the zig zag cut out on one side; five yellow triangles and four purple polka dot triangles to alternate within the open "spots" on the green; and one mod of bumblebee stickers. The pages I did for examples were - one on black (which looks really nice with these colors!) and outdoor pics of my daughter in pre-k - titled "We were busy as bees in preschool!" and the other was a sentiments 2 page spread, with the triangles inside the green (on top of the green) along the outside edges that is titled "Meet my honeys!". (Momof6)

For other page toppers that work with bee stickers see Insects.

Children's ABC's

Accept your children for who they are and who you want them to be.
Believe in your natural instincts and abilities.
Care about everything your children have to say.
Devote quality time to each of your children individually.
Enjoy every moment.
Follow your heart when in doubt.
Give in sometimes.
Hug your kids every day.
Insist on respect.
Jump for joy at your kid's accomplishments.
Kiss your children often.
Love your kids with all your heart.
Manage your time wisely.
Nurture your children in every possible way.
Open your heart and soul to your children.
Practice what you preach.
Quantity of quality time.
Remember that you too were once a child.
Satisfy your own cravings sometimes.
Teach your children what you have learned from experience.
Understand that no two kids are the same and they all have different needs.
Verify the facts before making accusations.
Welcome suggestions and ideas.
X-pect that there will be some bad days.
You are the one in charge, not your kids.
Zoom in on your hopes and dreams for your children, they are our future.

For more ABC ideas see Children ABC Lists.

Children are:

Amazing . . . . . . acknowledge them
Believable . . . . . . trust them
Childlike . . . . . . allow them
Divine . . . . . . honor them
Energetic . . . . . . nourish them
Fallible . . . . . . embrace them
Gifts . . . . . . treasure them
Here now . . . . . . be with them
Innocent . . . . . . delight with them
Joyful . . . . . . appreciate them
Kindhearted . . . . . . learn from them
Lovable . . . . . . cherish them
Magical . . . . . . fly with them
Noble . . . . . . esteem them
Open minded . . . . . . respect them
Precious . . . . . . value them
Questioners . . . . . . encourage them
Resourceful . . . . . . support them
Spontaneous . . . . . . enjoy them
Talented . . . . . . believe in them
Unique . . . . . . affirm them
Vulnerable . . . . . . protect them
Whole . . . . . . recognize them
Xtra special . . . . . . celebrate them
Yearning . . . . . . notice them
Zany . . . . . . laugh with them