Free Baby Book Printables

If you are a new parent, free baby book printables are a convenient and time-saving option for scrapbook projects. Free printables allow you to create a nice baby book without spending a large sum of money on supplies. All you need is Internet access, a computer and a color printer.

It is easy to find free scrapbook printables for baby books for both traditional and digital albums on the Internet.

• Scrapbook supply retail websites often have a page of free printables or downloadable scrapbook embellishments.
• Websites of companies that sell products for babies or new parents sometimes have a free printable scrapbook items for baby books.
• Some websites that offer products with specific cartoon characters may have free scrapbook printables featuring the cartoon characters suitable for a baby book.
• Personal scrapbooker websites or blogs often offer free baby theme scrapbook printables.
• Special interest sites such as a sports fan club or university alumni association may have free scrapbook printables that can be used for a baby book.

You can find a wide selection of free baby book printables. Common baby book printables include worksheets, special occasion pages, growth records, decorative paper, quotes and entire baby book sets.

Printable baby worksheets are pages that you can fill out to record important thoughts and events during your baby's first year. Examples of worksheets include the following:

• Baby's birth story
• Baby's name meaning
• Family tree
• Baby's first words

Tara Sims has an excellent collection of free printable baby worksheets at docstoc.com. Karen Barnes describes the worksheets with a link to each one in this helpful article.

Special occasion printables feature words and artwork around themes such as the baby's christening, Easter, Christmas, first trip to a grandparent's house or the baby's first birthday. Some printables even have complete layouts and only require photos and a description.

Scrapbook Scrapbook offers many free digital scrapbook sets, including an excellent baptism and christening set.

Printables of growth records and developmental milestones are also available. These types of printables allow you to record your baby's weight and measurements from well-baby visits and track important firsts such as rolling over, sitting up or first words.

Many sites that offer baby scrapbook freebies have decorative paper for traditional and digital scrapbooks. Paper styles for babies range from teddy bears and dolls to popular cartoon characters in colors such as pink, blue, yellow or green.

Activity Village offers free printable baby scrapbook paper.

Some sites also provide free quotes about babies and parenthood to include in scrapbooks. Quotes help set the tone of a scrapbook page and can capture your feelings about a situation in eloquent words.

Here are some quotes for your baby scrapbook project:

• It is not a slight thing when those so fresh from God love us. - Charles Dickens
• A new baby is like the beginning of all things - wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. - Edna J. Leshan
• Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful. - Charles Osgood
• Having a child is surely the most beautiful irrational act that two people in love can commit. - Bill Cosby

Free printable baby books are also available online in a variety of styles. Websites generally offer printable baby books in two different formats:

• Basic page - You print out the page and then decorate it by hand.
• Template - You fill out the template electronically and then print it.

Free printable baby books usually include pages about the important events in a baby's first year and provide a decorative front and back cover.

You can design the entire baby book page electronically and then print it out. If you want to be more creative, you can print out the page and add additional embellishments such a rubber stamp design, stickers or glitter.

The Free Baby Memory Book site offers a user-friendly printable baby book that allows parents to put together a basic baby book quickly. Page topics include:

• All About Mom
• All About Dad
• Homecoming
• Our World
• Baby's First Easter
• Your Firsts
• Your Favorites

The Print Picnic site has a number of printables that cover important early baby memories that can be printed as a baby book set or separately.

Examples of baby book page titles include:

• The Day I Was Born
• First Photo
• How I Spend My Days
• What I Do Best
• My Personality
• My Growth Record
• My New Skills
• Story of My Early Days
• My Growing World
• My Day of Blessing
• My Travels

The Brady's Corner site offers four different baby books and a large selection of baby theme printables for free.

Baby book themes are:

• Winnie the Pooh
• Baby Mickey
• Baby Minnie
• Baby Angels

Individual printables and embellishments for baby scrapbook projects include:

• Sayings
• Clip art
• Announcements
• Frames
• Pages in the Winnie the Pooh, Baby Mickey, Baby Minnie and Baby Angels themes that are separate from the printable baby book
• Pages in a variety of classic baby designs such as blocks, diaper pins, balloons or hearts

The site also includes tips for using printables for scrapbooking.

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