Category: DIY

Cheap & Creative Holiday Scrapbook Supplies

Do you want to create a holiday season scrapbook but are on a tight budget? You do not need expensive scrapbook kits to create beautiful Christmas and holiday memory books. With a little creativity, you can create festive scrapbook pages using dollar store finds, recycle materials, free printables, and supplies on hand. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following.

Christmas scrapbook with family photos, snowflakes, holiday labels, and handwritten story cards

Budget-Friendly Holiday Scrapbook Supplies

When creating a holiday scrapbook, let your imagination be your guide. There is no right or wrong way to create one. You may already have many supplies at home. Plus, inspiration can come from the most unlikely materials.

Inexpensive Items

  • Christmas Wrapping Papper
  • Holiday Gift Bags
  • Christmas Cards (Use the ones from last year or purchase some from your local dollar store).
  • Scrapbook Paper (Some places carry single sheets which are great for special pages).
  • Christmas Stickers
  • Stampers
  • Gift Ribbon
  • Tinsel
  • Flat Seasonal Decorations
  • Gift Tags
  • Holiday Postcards
  • Red, Green, or White Cardstock
  • Envelopes

Items to Keep Throughout the Holiday Season

  • Christmas Shopping Receipts
  • Stamps from Christmas Cards
  • Holiday Napkins
  • Holiday Brochures
  • Tea Tags
  • Christmas Packaging
  • Candy Wrappers
  • Photos

Things to Create

  • Homemade Cardboard Stencils
  • Paper Snowflakes (Create your own paper snowflakes by cutting out shapes on folded white paper),

Holiday Event

  • Church Programs
  • School Christmas Programs
  • Holiday Event Tickets
  • Invitations

Family Items

  • Christmas Drawings
  • Wish Lists
  • Christmas Menu with Guest List
  • Letters to Santa

Ideas to Write on Note Cards or Scrap Paper

  • Christmas Quotes
  • Christmas Jokes
  • Poems
  • Journal Entries
  • Favorite Christmas Recipe
  • Funny Stories

Items You May Already Own

  • Scissors
  • Two-Sided Tape
  • Adhesive Glue Dots
  • Glue Sticks
  • Buttons
  • Twine
  • Old Calendars
  • Used Christmas Cards
  • Old Magazines or Catalogs

Cut out items from magazines, use plain paper as backgrounds, and decorate with inexpensive items. But include family notes, activities, and photos in your Christmas scrapbook. They will be the lasting memory.

Merry Christmas!

55 Drawing Prompts for Thanksgiving 2026

Thanksgiving is on the way. Are you searching for a way to keep the kids entertained while you are busy in the kitchen? Or perhaps you want to seek a peaceful spot for a creative outlet over the long holiday weekend. Drawing is a delightful hobby where the only boundary is your imagination. If you are searching for inspiration, explore these drawing prompts for Thanksgiving.

oil pastel on black tray
  1. Thanksgiving Self-Portrait
  2. Red, Yellow, and Orange Colors
  3. Thanksgiving Kitchen Scene
  4. Funny Moment
  5. The First Thanksgiving
  6. Family Thanksgiving
  7. Friends Thanksgiving
  8. Centerpiece
  9. Design Placemats and Place Cards for the Table
  10. Make a Thanksgiving Card for Family and Friends
  11. Thanksgiving Table
  12. Thanksgiving Food
  13. Favorite
  14. Your Meal
  15. Desserts
  16. Turkey Time
  17. Favorite Part of Thanksgiving
  18. Pet
  19. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  20. Thanksgiving Parade
  21. Design a Float
  22. Marching Band
  23. Banner
  24. Football
  25. Game
  26. Winner
  27. Touchdown
  28. Favorite Team
  29. Get Outdoors
  30. Landscape
  31. Traditions
  32. Blessings
  33. Pumpkins & Gourds
  34. Cornucopia
  35. Corn
  36. Harvest
  37. Wagon
  38. Lantern
  39. Pilgrim Hat
  40. Pilgrim
  41. History
  42. Thankful
  43. Grateful
  44. Fallen Leaves
  45. Trees
  46. Acorns
  47. Pinecones
  48. Autumn Scene
  49. Thanksgiving Day Sunrise or Sunset
  50. Out Your Window
  51. Wild Animals
  52. Weather
  53. Colorful
  54. Peace
  55. Time for Christmas!

Plan a Nostalgic Christmas Party: Tips & Ideas

Are you trying to think of a theme for your Christmas party? Consider going old school. Throwing a nostalgic Christmas party is all about bringing back the cozy, magical vibes of holidays past. Use classic decorations, play old-school music, and do comforting traditions. If you are searching for inspiration, consider the following for perfect nostalgic Christmas celebration.

festive nutcracker display with snowy village
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1. Invitations

  • Style: Use vintage Christmas card designs.
  • Wording: “Step Back in Time for a Classic Christmas Celebration!”
  • RSVP: Use RSVP cards for a touch of traditional elegance.
  • Mail: Consider mailing your cards. Write out each address by hand. Do not use address labels.

2. Decorations

  • Colors: Stick to traditional red, green, gold, and silver for your decorations.
  • Elements:
    • Tinsel, garlands, and multi-colored string lights.
    • Ceramic Christmas trees with glowing lights.
    • Vintage ornaments and nutcrackers.
    • Old-fashioned stockings and candles (battery-operated for safety).
    • Create homemade decorations and ornaments.
    • A record player or cassette player if you’ve got one for nostalgic vibes.

3. Music

  • Curate a playlist with:
    • Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Brenda Lee, and The Carpenters.
    • Classic TV specials soundtracks (Charlie Brown, Rudolph, etc.).
    • Consider playing a vinyl Christmas album if you have a turntable.
    • Encourage sing-a-longs.

4. Food & Drinks

  • Menu Ideas:
    • Do mainly appetizers. Serve deviled eggs, meatballs, cheese balls, and cocktail weenies.
    • Use classic Jell-O molds.
    • For dessert, serve decorated sugar cookies, gingerbread men, and fruitcake.
  • Drinks:
    • Eggnog (spiked or not)
    •  Homemade hot cocoa with marshmallows
    • Mulled cider.
    • Consider making an ice cream punch. Serve in a punch bowl. This is a holiday favorite with kids.
    • Serve all drinks in vintage glassware or mugs.

5. Activities

  • Watch Classic Specials: Rudolph, Frosty, Charlie Brown, or Home Alone.
  • Old-School Games: Play Charades or Christmas trivia. Set out board games like Sorry! or Clue.
  • Cookie Decorating Station: Use vintage tins and trays to decorate cookies.
  • Photo Booth:  Set up a photo booth area use retro props and a tinsel backdrop.

6. Dress Code

  • Encourage guests to wear vintage or “retro-inspired” holiday outfits.
  • Consider dresses, bow ties, Christmas sweaters, or anything that feels like the ’50s–’80s.

7. Party Favors

  • Send guests home with mini ornaments, candy canes, or hot cocoa mixes.
  • Place items in nostalgic packaging.

Enjoy your Christmas party. Make lots of memories. Take photos to share with friends and family. Merry Christmas!

November Drawing Prompts

November is officially underway. Do you want to try something new on colder days? Drawing is an easy hobby to start-just let your creativity flow. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for November.

close up of a child s drawing of a family on paper
  1. November Self-Portrait
  2. Cold Weather
  3. Yellow and Orange
  4. Nature
  5. Wildlife Scene
  6. Clouds
  7. Sunrise
  8. Trees
  9. Birds
  10. Waterfalls
  11. Veterans Day
  12. Feathers
  13. Pinecones
  14. Shapes
  15. Acorns
  16. Mushrooms
  17. Landscape
  18. Book
  19. Bubbles
  20. Water Scene
  21. Transportation
  22. Morning
  23. Out a Window
  24. Family
  25. Traditions
  26. Happy Thanksgiving
  27. Long Weekend
  28. Friendship
  29. Snow
  30. Artist’s Choice

Enjoy! Happy Drawing!

Scrapbook Ideas for Halloween 2026

Are you enjoying the spooky season? Are you enjoying family traditions, costumes, pumpkin carving, haunted adventures and other moments that make October special? Creating a Halloween-themed scrapbook is a fantastic way to preserve your spooky memories. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following Halloween scrapbook ideas.

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Three cartoonish ghost figures with expressive faces, depicting various emotions, standing with raised arms against a blurred background.

Pick Your Halloween Scrapbook Theme

You can create a scrapbook that’s vintage and spooky, cute and whimsical, gothic and mysterious, or cozy autumn inspired. There is no right or wrong way to create a Halloween themed scrapbook. Let your imagination soar.

  • Vintage Inspired: Add antique style postcards, distressed paper, old fashioned pumpkins, black cars, and aged photographs.
  • Cute and Whimsical: Add friendly ghosts, colorful candy, smiling pumpkins, and playful stickers.
  • Gothic and Mysterious: Include items like black lace, ravens, old book pages, moon phases, purple accents, and mysterious details.
  • Cozy Autumn: Use colorful paper, pressed leaves, plaid patterns, warm orange colors, and pumpkin photographs.

Ideas for Your Halloween Scrapbook Pages

Create themed pages to make your scrapbook.  If you are creating the scrapbook as a family, each person could do a page. Or older children may want to create their own scrapbook to keep as a memory.

  • October Memories: Include a calendar, seasonal goals, and your  favorite photos.
  • Pumpkin Patch Adventures: Add photos from your pumpkin-picking adventure. Include tickets and pressed leaves on this page.
  • Costume Memories:  Add your family or friends’ photos of this year’s Halloween costumes. Include sketches or  funny stories about your costume on this page.
  • Trick-or-Treat Night: Add photos from trick-or-treat or trunk-or-treat adventures. Include candy wrappers and write about your neighborhood memories.
  • Haunted Houses: Include your admission tickets (If your tickets are digital, print them). Add photos and your personal spooky ratings.
  • Halloween Movie Night: Create homemade movie tickets. Add snack wrappers and movie ratings
  • Pumpkin Carving: Add before-and-after pumpkin photographs.
  • Halloween Baking: Add recipe cards and pictures of spooky treats.
  • Spooky Road Trips: Include maps, postcards, and roadside attraction photos.
  • Halloween Decorations: Print photos of your decorated home and DIY projects.
  • Ghost Stories: Write down your favorite family-friendly ghost stories and local legends.
  • Halloween Party: Save an invitation for your scrapbook. Add photos of the event, decorations, games, and party food.
  • Halloween Playlist: Include song titles, album art, and music memories.
  • Halloween Bucket List: Add a decorated checklist of seasonal adventures.
  • October 31st: Include a full-page collage of Halloween night.

Enjoy the creative process. Add pages to fit your family and friends Halloween activities.

Happy Halloween!

55 Halloween Drawing Prompts

The spooky season is here! Are you ready for things that go bump in the night? October brings cooler weather and sometimes rainy days (or snowy ones). Drawing your favorite Halloween scenes and scares is a fantastic way to spend an afternoon. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for Halloween.

cozy artistic sketching by candlelight
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  1. Halloween-themed self portrait
  2. Pumpkins
  3. Pumpkin Patch
  4. Jack-o-lantern
  5. Black Cat
  6. Bats
  7. Cauldron
  8. Witch
  9. Witch’s Broom
  10. Witch’s Hat
  11. Witch’s Shoes
  12. Cauldron
  13. Scarecrow
  14. Clown
  15. Haunted House
  16. Attic
  17. Spider Webs with Spiders
  18. Bugs
  19. Moth
  20. Ghosts
  21. Skeleton
  22. Owl
  23. Moon
  24. Raven
  25. Candy Corn
  26. Costume
  27. Crystal Ball
  28. Vampires
  29. Frankenstein
  30. Werewolf
  31. Mummy
  32. Zombies
  33. Swap Creature
  34. Halloween Monster
  35. Underground
  36. Old Library
  37. Laboratory
  38. Eyeball
  39. Spooky Plants
  40. Magic
  41. Potions Shelf
  42. Potion Bottle
  43. Spell Books
  44. Graveyard
  45. Tombstone
  46. Spooky Forest
  47. Wizard
  48. Trick-or-Treat Bag
  49. Trick or Treating Scene
  50. Spooky Trees
  51. Halloween Sunset
  52. Halloween Night
  53. Halloween Treats
  54. Happy Halloween
  55. Artist’s Choice

Keep drawing! Happy Halloween

65 Drawing Prompts for the Fall Season

The fall season is underway. The leaves are beginning to change. Cooler weather and rainy days are perfect for creative outlets. Drawing is a simple hobby to start with unlimited possibilities.  If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for the fall season.

child drawing with crayons in tokyo art class
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  1. Autumn-themed Self-Portrait
  2. Red, Orange, and Yellow
  3. Trees
  4. Leaves
  5. Leaf Piles
  6. Leaf Fairy
  7. Apples
  8. Orchard
  9. Cider Mill
  10. Pumpkin Patch
  11. Pumpkin
  12. Gourds
  13. Cornucopia
  14. Pie
  15. Harvest Time
  16. Fall Foods
  17. Corn Stalks
  18. Scarecrow
  19. Crows
  20. Corn Maze
  21. Harvest or Full Moon
  22. Night Scene
  23. Water Scene (Underwater too)
  24. Book Cover Design
  25. Owl
  26. Fox and Den
  27. Squirrels
  28. Bonfire
  29. Lanterns
  30. Hayride
  31. Straw Bales
  32. Tractor
  33. Pinecones
  34. Acorns
  35. Wooded Scene
  36. Nature
  37. Trails
  38. Wild Animals
  39. Mushrooms
  40. Gnomes
  41. Birds
  42. Sunrise
  43. Sunset
  44. Out Your Window
  45. Current View
  46. Fall Traditions
  47. Weather
  48. Frost
  49. First Snow
  50. Hat & Mittens
  51. Boots
  52. Wind
  53. Hot Beverage
  54. Football
  55. Homecoming
  56. Tailgating
  57. Game Time
  58. Score or Cheer
  59. Friends
  60. Family
  61. Pet
  62. Favorite Place
  63. Peace
  64. Time for Winter
  65. Artist’s Choice

Enjoy!

Drawing Prompts for September 2026

September is only a couple days away! The start of the new month is the perfect time to tap into your creative side. Drawing is a fantastic way to let your imagination soar. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for September.

person drawing with color pencils
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  1. Self-Portrait
  2. Best Friend
  3. Weather
  4. Long Weekend
  5. Celebrations
  6. Sunday Funday
  7. Labor Day
  8. Family
  9. Birds
  10. School Spirit
  11. Patriot Day
  12. Favorite Things
  13. Messy
  14. Out a Window
  15. Travel Scene
  16. New
  17. A Park or Zoo
  18. Dance Scene
  19. Dramatic Scene
  20. Cozy
  21. Supplies
  22. Happy Fall
  23. Red, Orange, Yellow
  24. Back Roads
  25. Wheels
  26. Emotions
  27. Toys
  28. Dogs
  29. Wish
  30. Artist’s Choice

Have a great September!

Drawing Prompts for August 2026

Are you ready to create art in August? Drawing is a simple and fun way to let your imagination soar. Do you need drawing ideas? Check out the following drawing prompts for August for inspiration.

a woman making a drawing on a sketchpad
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  1. August Self-Portrait
  2. Beach Scene
  3. Current Mood
  4. Flowers
  5. Clouds and Skyline
  6. Sunset Scene
  7. Friendship
  8. Need
  9. Letters
  10. Childhood Memory
  11. Music
  12. Green
  13. Hidden
  14. Nature
  15. Colorful
  16. Stairway
  17. Inspirational
  18. Water Scene
  19. Time
  20. Note
  21. Eyes
  22. Streets
  23. Patterns
  24. Morning
  25. Someone You Love
  26. Whimsical
  27. Dream
  28. Smiles
  29. Family
  30. Summer’s End
  31. Artist’s Choice

Have a fantastic month! Happy drawing!

Drawing Prompts for July 2026

July is just around the corner! Are you searching for a creative way to spend quiet time? Drawing is an easy hobby to start. Simply, pick up a pencil and let your artistic side flow. If you are searching for inspiration, check out the following drawing prompts for July.

close up of a bunch o colored pencils
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  1. July Self-Portrait
  2. Traditions
  3. Red, White, & Blue
  4. Happy Independence Day!
  5. Outdoor Scene
  6. Shapes
  7. Peace & Love
  8. Childhood
  9. Fashion
  10. Kitten or Baby Animal
  11. Swimming Pool Scene
  12. Hats
  13. Rocks
  14. Cow
  15. Summer Food or Hot Dogs
  16. Snakes
  17. Mushrooms
  18. Patterns
  19. Bees and Hive
  20. Space Exploration
  21. Galaxy
  22. Hammock
  23. Ice Cream
  24. Cousins
  25. Skyline
  26. Words
  27. Dream Home
  28. Emoji
  29. Snails
  30. Seahorse
  31. Artist’s Choice

Have a great month! Keep drawing!