Celebrating Martin Luther King Holiday and Scrapbooking Tradition
(Originally posted 1/17/2011)

Take time to teach your children about Martin Luther King, Jr. this Holiday. We can celebrates the life and legacy of a man who brought hope and healing to America and share the Dream with our children this holiday. During this Monday, we can commit to the timeless values Martin Luther King Jr. showed through his words and example — the values of courage, truth, justice, compassion, dignity, humility, peace, fair mindedness and service to others. This is a worthy message to share with our children. It is also a day you can set goals and scrap them too creating great family traditions to cherish for years to come!

Every Martin Luther King Holiday gives us the opportunity to teach our children about the values of nonviolence, including tolerance, forgiveness and courage to stand for a cause that betters the world. I like what Coretta Scott King said, “The Holiday provides a unique opportunity to teach young people to fight evil, not people, to get in the habit of asking themselves, what is the most loving way I can resolve this conflict?”

Take some time to teach your children and reflect yourself on the values we can learn from the “Dream” of equality and love towards all people!

Get more Ideas for this holiday:

See article with videos of some of his speeches and other great resources – Martin Luther King and I have Dream

See this article about Making I Have a Dream T-shirts – I Have a Dream

Coloring Pages for Martin Luther King Holiday:

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 1

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 2

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 3

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 4

Here is a scrapbooking idea!

Once you have celebrated this holiday take some time and scrap the memories!

Here is a great scrapbooking idea to start with your children to make this holiday more meaningful!

Take some of the coloring pages listed in the links above, and have you children color them! Next, scan the coloring pages, and scrap them on a digital scrapbooking page! It might also be nice to include what your child would have a “Dream” of in the scrapbooking project! Next year when Martin Luther King Day comes around again you can pull out your child’s scrap page and see how they worked on their goal and record a new page with what happened! Make a tradition each year of setting a goal, dream or how to make the world a better place and scrap that dream and how you and your child made it true!

Also this can work for grown-ups too! Make your “Dream” for a better world and scrap it! Check next year and see how close you came to making it happen!

Have a very happy day!

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Do you like the digital kit used in this blog – then get the Blue Paper Kit at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Paper Digital Scrapbooking Kit is pretty paper set, great for digitally scrapping all of your favorite things that need a touch of blue!

Use these cool-colored papers splashed with polka dots to scrap your favorite photos and special mementos! This kit comes with 8 different blue-inspired colored 12 x 12″ digital papers!

Also we used the embellishments from the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ icy blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments

Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit!

Get other great digital scrapbooking supplies at the Scrap Shop!

Every Martin Luther King Holiday gives us the opportunity to teach our children about the values of nonviolence, including  tolerance, forgiveness and courage to stand for a cause that betters the world. I like what Coretta Scott King said,  “The Holiday provides a unique opportunity to teach young people to fight evil, not people, to get in the habit of asking themselves, what is the most loving way I can resolve this conflict?”

Take some time to teach your children and reflect yourself on the values we can learn from the “Dream” of equality and love towards all people!

Get more Ideas for this holiday:

See article with videos of some of his speeches and other great resources – Martin Luther King and I have Dream

See this article about Making I Have a Dream T-shirts – I Have a Dream

Coloring Pages for Martin Luther King Holiday

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 1

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 2

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 3

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 4

Here is a scrapbooking idea!

Once you have celebrated this holiday take some time and scrap the memories!

Here is a great scrapbooking idea to start with your children to make this holiday more meaningful!

Take some of the coloring pages listed in the links above, and have you children color them! Next, scan the coloring pages, and scrap them on a digital scrapbooking page! It might also be nice to include what your child would have a “Dream” of in the scrapbooking project! Next year when Martin Luther King Day comes around again you can pull out your child’s scrap page and see how they worked on their goal and record a new page with what happened! Make a tradition each year of setting a goal, dream or how to make the world a better place and scrap that dream and how you and your child made it true!

Also this can work for grown-ups too! Make your “Dream” for a better world and scrap it! Check next year and see how close you came to making it happen!

Have a very happy day!

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Do you like the digital kit used in this blog – then get the Blue Paper Kit at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Paper Digital Scrapbooking Kit is pretty paper set, great for digitally scrapping all of your favorite things that need a touch of blue!

Use these cool-colored papers splashed with polka dots to scrap your favorite photos and special mementos! This kit comes with 8 different blue-inspired colored 12 x 12″ digital papers!

Also we used the embellishments from the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ icy blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments

Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit!

Get other great digital scrapbooking supplies at the Scrap Shop!

It is nice to not only take a moment and think about his sacrifices for equality but take a few minutes and listen to the actual speeches that are are historical.

Take a moment and show your children, so they can know about this changing event in our history.

If you haven’t had a chance to listen to these speeches then take a few moments and watch and listen to them below:

Thanks to YouTube – we can watch them now! The Internet makes History come alive!

Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech – from YouTube
(Flash Player needed to view)

(Note: Kindle Readers may not be able to see video on your Kindle, so please go to your computer and this Digital Scrapbooks and More’s blog http://blog.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com to enjoy this video)

Also, take a few moments and look at Real footage of Martin Luther King’s last speech, entitled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. Prophetic words, the day before he was assassinated.

Martin Luther King’s Last Speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” -  from YouTube (Flash Player needed to view)

(Note: Kindle Readers may not be able to see video on your Kindle, so please go to your computer and this Digital Scrapbooks and More’s blog http://blog.digitalscrapbooksandmore.com to enjoy this video)

Martin Luther King made a big impact on our society, yet did you know that?

Martin Luther King received a “C” in his public speaking class. Although with his passion and overcoming adversity he delivered one of the most famous speeches of all time!

Take some time to learn about Martin Luther King Jr, look at the videos with your children, explain what was happening and how important this event was,  ask them what they think about it, write what they say down, scrap their thoughts so they can look back on their thoughts.

Here are more Martin Luther King Jr resources:

Resource: I Have a Dream Article about making I Have a dream t-shirts for children”s crafts

Resource: Wikipedia History of Martin Luther King Jr

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 1

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 2

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 3

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 4

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 5

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 6

Resource: Martin Luther King Jr coloring page 7

Resource: Online home of the King Center, the nonprofit organization that educates the world about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s philosophy of nonviolence

Resource: The Meaning of the Martin Luther King Holiday

Resources: Martin Luther King Images

Every Martin Luther King Holiday gives us the opportunity to teach our children about the values of nonviolence, including  tolerance, forgiveness and courage to stand for a cause that betters the world. I like what Coretta Scott King said,  “The Holiday provides a unique opportunity to teach young people to fight evil, not people, to get in the habit of asking themselves, what is the most loving way I can resolve this conflict?”

Take some time to teach your children and reflect yourself on the values we can learn from the “Dream” of equality and love towards all people!

See this article about Making I Have a Dream T-shirts – I Have a Dream

Have a nice day!

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Do you like the digital kit used in this blog – then get the Blue Paper Kit at the Scrap Shop.

The Blue Paper Digital Scrapbooking Kit is pretty paper set, great for digitally scrapping all of your favorite things that need a touch of blue!

Use these cool-colored papers splashed with polka dots to scrap your favorite photos and special mementos! This kit comes with 8 different blue-inspired colored 12 x 12″ digital papers!

Also we used the embellishments from the Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit

Blue Ice Polka Dot Scrapbooking Kit is sprinkled with beautiful, blue polka dots! Decorate your favorite moments of the past year with a kit that stands-out with its’ icy blues, and soft metallic silvers; filled full of digital papers, frames, tags, and embellishments

Celebrate the winter season or use when you need a blue themed kit! This Scrapbooking Kit goes along with the Blue Ice Polka Dot Quick Page Kit, the Happy New Year Quick Page Kit and Happy New Year Scrap Kit, and the Happy New Year Brush set making it a great kit to own as it works with so many other supplies!