Summer Scrapbook Activity - skill building/summer bridge activity

I found the below activity online, and it sounds like a great summer activity.  In addition to being FUN, this would help in maintaining and/or developing certain skills (good bridge activity), and ... you are creating a memory as well. 
Have fun with it! Send me pics of your sweet little scrapbook projects, if you'd like!

Jessica

Literacy: A Summer Scrapbook


Promote language skills as preschool children express their ideas and communicate
feelings during the creation of this early childhood scrapbook by Julie M.

Materials:

• Scrapbook
• children's own contributions of drawings, paintings and verses
• scissors
• glue
• felt tipped pens.

Description:
Talk about summer flowers with the children. Encourage them to contribute to the conversation by describing colors, smells and so on that they associate with summer. Show them the scrapbook and explain that they are each going to add something which reminds them of summer, such as a drawing, a pressed flower or something they remember.

Ask each child/family member to contribute their idea or piece of work, sticking it into the scrapbook themselves if they want to. Provide plenty of support for younger children, offering suggestions or scribing for them. Give each child a label and ask them to think of a few words to describe their entry and write the words on the label (if they can).

Ask each child/family member to draw small pictures to stick on to the front of the scrapbook. Then write a title Our Summer Scrapbook. The book should be available for the children to look at, read and share.