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Book of Me Scrapbook LayoutsJune Challenge - Childhood YearsThe June Challenge for the Book of Me Scrapbook Layouts will focus on when we were young, what we were like, who we grew up with, and where we lived. Since school is out in June, this is a great time to focus on you as a child and compare to your own children, get our your old school photos.
Option #1 - YOU AS A CHILD - For this scrapbook layout idea, focus on you as a young child. Were there interesting circumstances surrounding your birth? Or a particular event during your childhood that significantly influenced your life? What was your personality like? Did it get you in trouble or keep you far from it? What are your earliest memories? Your favorite memories? What did you want to be when you grew up? Scrapbook-advice.com Photo Ideas: Do you have any old photos that you collected from your class mates when you were in school? Could they be hidden in a long lost box of treasures from years gone by? Scrapbook-advice.com Layout ideas: Old school photos with the typical in-style clothes for the time period. Comparison photos of you and your own children - or you and your parents when they were children. Scrapbook-advice.com Journaling ideas: Not many photos, use a lot of journaling to discuss the clothing and hair styles for the time periods and how they have changed - or look better. I had a personal clothing revelation in the layouts below. 
On a Road Trip last summer, I went back to one of my old homes, just a few doors down from the Elementary School where I first attended school. That trip prompted this scrapbook layout idea for the Book of Me Scrapbook Layouts.
Scrapbook-advice.com Scrapbook Layout Ideas - Any old annuals or school newspapers or possibly your old school has a scrapbook of the period when were in school? I had no idea I would collect anything when I checked with by Elementary school, but found a gold mine. Option #2 - CHILDHOOD COMPANIONS Scrapbook Layout Ideas - Who did you grow up with? Did you have siblings or cousins or others who were like siblings in your life? How did birth order affect your upbringing? Book of Me Scrapbook Layout idea: Do a layout featuring your childhood relationships. How did the relationships start, did you have secret passwords, a code language, a club, other friends in common. Option #3 - WHERE DID YOU GROW UP? - Did you live in the same town or house during your years as a child? Or were you like me, a Military Brat, with no hometown, just a birthplace and lots of temporary houses that you mother made into homes? Scrapbook-advice.com Photo Ideas: I tried this once. I sent a letter to the address of where I used to live to ask if I sent a small single use camera, would they take photos of the house, inside and out. My request came back with an email and some digital photos. 
Here I only had 1 photo - a large 8 x 10 black and white of the house we lived in as one of 4 military families in Tampa, Florida. This photo of the housing unit decorated for Christmas and some of our neighbors standing out front was taken as these were the first place finishers in the decoration contest. Hey, it was December 1953!
More Book-of-Me Layouts of our preparation for a move to Guam in 1955. Mom and I had to get a passport - we used the same one back then and we all had to get shots back then as well. The photo on the right was from my Dad's office. It was a staged photo, but certainly reminds me of his great sense of humor. Check out the Book of Me Scrapbook Layouts -
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