Soldiers' Angel - Holly Aho

Hate stickers but your kids love them? Me too. I hate scraping them off of car windows, mirrors, walls, whatever. And storybooks with stickers are stupid. Kids don't realize they can't remove and adjust stickers so pages get ripped, stickers get folded up funny. In short, they look alot more fun in the package as opposed to the actual playtime.

But there's one way to have fun with stickers that's easy and cheap. And appropriate for any age group that can use stickers. What you'll need is a photo album with magnetic pages to start. They are not really magnetic, I mean the cheap photo albums with the peal and stick photo display pages with the plastic cover that sticks over the whole lot. Besides stickers and the photo album you could add washable markers or dry erase markers.

Using this type of photo album for sticker display allows stickers to retain much of their stickiness so they can be repositioned and used again and again. Once a page has been decorated press the clear cover over the stickers like you would for photos.

If you want to get real crafty let the kids use the markers on the clear cover of each page to create full coloring scenes for their stickers that can be washed off or dry erased.

I still have my sticker book from 25 years ago, one that held my treasured stickers from elementary school age. Believe it or not, the scratch and sniff stickers all retained their smell from being stored this way. Fun!