Ideas for a Boy Scout Scrapbook

Merit Badges
Design a scrapbook devoted to your child's quest for Boy Scout badges. Create an individual layout for each badge and include pictures of your child completing the tasks to earn the honor. Add a meaningful page embellishment by making a color copy of the actual badge to affix to the page. Leave room on the page where your child can write his impressions about the quest for the badge and what he learned most about the process.
Outdoor Adventures
Create a scrapbook featuring photos and memories from outdoor scouting activities. Include pictures and written anecdotes about day trips, hikes and nature excursions, for example. If your child has been in Boy Scouts for several years, create "then-and-now" layouts to showcase how his tent-building, fire-starting or fishing skills have developed and improved.
Scouting Memorabilia
Fill an album with memorabilia that your child has collected through Boy Scout activities. Use double-sided tape or a glue stick to affix such items as pamphlets, fliers, postcards or notes from friends to the background pages. If you'd rather not attach the ephemera to the pages, create pocket pages by cutting a piece of card stock so it's half as tall and an inch narrower than the background page. Attach the card stock to the background with double-sided tape placed along the bottom and sides. Decorate with scout-related stickers or die cuts and slip memorabilia into the pocket.
Best Friends
Record the friendships that your child has made through the Boy Scouts with a scrapbook that pays tribute to his best scouting friends. Include photos of the children at Boy Scout-related meetings, campouts, parties and ceremonies. Leave room on each page to write about the boys' relationship, such as when they met, how they bonded and how they've helped each other during scouting events. Ask each child to contribute text to the pages, as well. Encourage them to write what they like most about one another and what goals they have for their scouting adventures and friendship.
Troop Salute
If you're a Boy Scout troop leader, pay tribute to the children in your group with a scrapbook that records their personalities and most admirable qualities. Create a layout for each child featuring pictures that highlight his accomplishments during the year. Leave a spot on the page where the other scouts can write yearbook-style notes to the subject of the layout.