Themes for baby books & Play

There are lots of possible themes for baby books:

• Animals theme


• Alphabet theme


• Colours theme: every page a different colour


• Definitions theme: baby, love, cute, motherhood, family, growing up etc.


• Play theme: teddies, bricks, dolls etc.

If a whole book is too much - try creating a single page on one of these themes.

New life prompt: PLAY

What does play mean to you?

How do you play?

Start with "The way I play is..."

or "I like to play at...

Babies & new life - the things they do

Oh, the cute things they say and do.

If you have a baby or young child now - I know it's difficult when you're so busy - but for heaven's sake write down those cute things they say or the funny things they do. You WILL forget them later! I wish I'd been a scrapbooker when my babies were young. Luckily I was keeping a journal, so putting the text together with the photos isn't too hard.

Journalling on my son's fourth birthday at Nursery School: I have to go and do a few things before I pick [my son] up. He had a little ceremony at Nursery this morning, which was lovely. They get to choose 4 birthday kisses, 4 birthday hugs, 4 birthday claps or 4 birthday tickles! He went for the tickles, as apparently they all do. Then they can choose the four children to give them the tickle. It’s sweet. He blew out four candles, was sung Happy Birthday and got a card and a birthday crown to wear. He was really tickled!!!!!!....

Birth Announcements

For parents: Have you still a copy of your child’s birth announcement?
If so you can get out and think about how you felt when you sent it out.

If you haven't still got one, then create a birth announcement - include not just the details of name, time, weight etc., but something about how you feel on becoming a new parent.

Now create a journal or scrapbook page with perhaps a photo of the baby and the birth announcement.

New life prompt: Announcing... What would be a big success that you would like someday to announce. Your wedding? Your book published? Your success in the X-Factor? Write the announcement, as an invitation or a press release.

Babies - and new life

This week's prompts are about babies - but on the understanding that babies aren't everybody's "thing" we will also be looking at the theme of New Life.

Even if you haven't had babies of your own, you will have had babies in your family, and with luck you'll even have some pictures of yourself when an infant. Babies are very photogenic and their photos generally make satisfying journal or scrapbook pages that everyone enjoys looking at.

If you’ve had a baby in the last twenty years you probably had an ultrasound. If you kept the picture – scrap it! I know mine wasn’t very good – you have to have a lot of imagination to see a baby in it! But she WAS there. And I was so overcome with seeing her that I went home and wrote a poem. If I could find it I would post it…

So the prompt for today is about expectations.

If you've had a baby - how did you feel when you were (or your wife/partner was) expecting? What were the feelings that went through your mind? If you had an ultrasound, how did that in particular make you feel?

New Life prompt: Expectations: what are your expectations in spring? With new growth in the landscape and all manner of new possibilities - what do you hope the spring and summer will bring?