Want to get your children involved in the fun of the Olympics? Do you need some ideas to get started? Would you like to scrap the event too?
If you answered yes, then you are in the right place – here are some resources and ideas to get your children involved.
Today’s blog will tell you about some great resources for children, scrapping the event and enjoying the Winter Olympics. Even if you can’t be there in person, you still can enjoy the events and games and have a great time doing it too!
So check out some of these Resources for Young Children:
First, learn about the Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010 Mascots – meet Sumi, Quatchi and Miga!
Here are some links for kids to learn more and have some fun too!
See videos about these Olympic Mascots just for children
Get the Mascot Icon and Meet the Vancouver 2010 Mascots for your scrapbooking pages, projects and other activities for your children ~ from Wikipedia (Remember to read and follow copyright laws)
Get Crafts and Coloring Pages for the Mascots ~ from Vancouver2010.com
Play Games with the Mascots
Game 1: Miga Moves
Game 2: Soaring Sumi
Game 3: Quatchi’s Shootout Shutout
Game 4: Operation Recycle
Send a ecard with the Winter Olympics 2010 Mascots
Resources for Older Children or Teens and Adults:
Have your older children or teens look at some of the details for the events and games.
Know your medals: A collection of fun facts – NBColympics.com
Winter Olympics Facts: Sport by Sport
Online Winter Olympics Games for Teens, and Adults ~ from Vancouver2010.com
Download Vancouver 2010 desktop wallpapers for your computer
Read some of the athletes Stories here – Olympic school
Aboriginal Olympian Stories – – Olympic school
Olympic Origins and History – Olympic school
Other Resources – Olympics Educational Aids
Digital Scrap Your Children and their Winter Olympics Activities:
Now you have some resources to get your children involved in the Winter Olympics it is time to take lots of photos and scrap them!
Take photos and scrap things like:
Kids Coloring Olympics Coloring Pages
Kids watching the events and games on TV
Kids playing some of the online games
Kids enjoying some of the food – i.e., hot coco and soups for the cold weather, or international foods
Kids picking an athlete and scrapping info about them and the events and how they feel and what the think
Doing some of the same events, like going ice skating, skiing, or other snow related activities
I am sure as you participate in some of these activates more scrapbooking ideas will come up! After you scrap all the pages, combine them together and make them into a PDF album and email the digital scrapbooking albums to your family and friends! This is a good way to keep Grandma posted on all of your children’s activities! (See this training on How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements 8 )
Hope you will have a great Winter Olympics and Share the fun with your Children!
Enjoy!
Cheri
Ps. check back on Wednesday’s blog for info on a FREE Winter Olympics Freebie!
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Here are some of the digital scrapbooking supplies we used in this blog article.
The Winter Snow Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes digital papers for winter scrapbooking projects! Digital Papers are 12×12″ size. Kit includes digital papers, frames, and winter themed embellishments! Also this kit includes a digital recipe card for scrapbooking your favorite winter dish!
Celebrate this year’s winter festivities with the “Winter Snow” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital Winter Wonderland! Whether you prefer to digitally scrap a romantic evening curled up next to the fire on a cold winter day, or the joy of building a snowman with the kids, this digital scrapbooking is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your frostiest moments look fabulous!
Frosty Winter Memories Scrapbooking Kit is a digital scrapbooking kit full of snowflakes digital papers for winter scrapbooking projects! Digital Papers are 12×12″ size. Kit includes digital papers, and icy winter themed embellishments!
Celebrate this year’s winter events and activities with the “Frosty Winter Memories” Digital Scrapbooking Kit! Turn your holiday photos and special memories into a digital Winter Wonderland! Whether you prefer to digitally scrap a romantic evening curled up next to the fire on a cold winter day, or the joy of building a snowman with the kids, this digital scrapbooking is filled with beautiful digital supplies to make all of your frostiest moments look fabulous! Use the icicles to decorate your photos, ribbons and make your digital scrapbooking page all frosty!
With this Winter Snowflake and Ice inspired Digital Scrapbooking kit you can make wonderful Winter Scrapbooking Pages. Also use the digital supplies to make gifts such as Calendars, Aprons, Puzzles, Greeting Cards and much More! The “Frosty Winter Memories” kit is a wonderful way to create digital scrapbooking projects that are winter orientated! Use with snow, skiing or other winter photos to complete digital scrapbooking projects.
Like the Custom Brushes used in this blog article?
Then Check out the Winter Sports Custom Brush Set. Great to use for a Olympics Party, sports event and more!
Custom Brushes are just one of the many exciting things to do when Digital Scrapbooking within Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Custom Brushes can be used as a digital version of a rubber stamp, and can be “stamped” on Digital Scrapbook Projects as adorable embellishments!
Special Note: If you would like more detail on how to use and install custom brushes please see our training in ~ Photoshop or in Photoshop Elements .
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Training that would help you Make Digital PDF Scrap Albums
How to Make a PDF Scrapbooking Album using Photoshop Elements 8 is a great Intermediate 2-part tutorial set that will teach you all about the basics of making a digital scrapbooking album that you can email, print or view on a computer. This lesson will show you how to make just one PDF scrap page, or take multiple digital scrapbooking pages and combine them into album that is in the PDF format using Photoshop Elements 8!
Once you have a digital album you can email your whole digital scrapbooking album to friends and family! Learn how to turn just one page or multiple pages in to the PDF format that most everyone can read with Adobe’s FREE Acrobat Reader for PDF formatted documents Also learn how to make a PDF that can work like a slideshow and show case your digital scrapbooking pages.
If you want to learn more about Digital Scrapbooking or Photo Editing please check out our Scrap Shop for great video tutorials and wonderful digital scrapbooking supplies!
