youth & journal writing

Last night I had about 40 teenagers from church in my house, along with about 10 youth leaders. We do this once a month on a Sunday for all the youth in our congregation. It's always a different topic, a different speaker, and a different house. Always a great experience. I love being with the youth.

So I did a little presentation on the importance of keeping personal records, and specifically focused on keeping a journal. Didn't even bring up scrapbooking, actually. Each person got one of these little booklets and they worked on filling out the information for about a half hour.



Not super in-depth stuff. Just some tidbits about their life right now. A little record of who they are at this point in time. And possibly stuff they haven't recorded ... at least not lately. And it's something they could actually take home with them instead of just "talking" about writing.

Anyway, it's a simple little project and in case you wanted to do something like this for your kids or yourself, here's what I included on the inside pages. Just click on the image & it'll go really big on your monitor.



The front cover (that green block) is a place for them to put a current picture. All of the paper (7Gypsies) is cut to be 5" x 8" and then the top is another piece of paper that is 5" x 4" and then folded in half. It's all held together with 2 staples. Super easy. Great little activity for kids with "down time" before school's back in session next month (for many families).