Fun Ideas for Your Preschool Classroom Yearbook

There are few photo book projects as adorable as a preschool classroom yearbook. It’s a truly enjoyable task to fill a colorful book with photos of sweet, smiling faces, playtime fun, creative endeavors, and important learning experiences. The project is also an easy one, thanks to Mixbook’s photo book themes designed specifically for preschool classrooms. The Mixbook Studio™ has a suite of intuitive tools for filling those themes with your best preschool photos and customizing the text, stickers, backgrounds, layouts, and more.

Instead of a classic yearbook covering the entire school, consider dedicating a special book to each preschool classroom. Kids, parents, and educators alike will adore the preschool memory book. You can give books to each child on the last day of the school year, helping them remember those days forever. Keep a copy in the classroom library, and use the book to show incoming new students all the fun they’ll have at preschool.

Preschool yearbook themes

Mixbook’s comprehensive collection of yearbook themes includes a variety of options specifically for preschools. They feature beautiful design details, illustrated stickers, kid-friendly color palettes, and balanced layouts, which you can fill with your own photos manually or using the instant Auto-Create tool.

Here are some of the most popular theme choices for preschool memory books:

• Preschool Classroom Memory Book

• Simple Preschool Classroom Yearbook

• Illustrated Preschool Yearbook

• Rainbow Classroom Yearbook

The preschool yearbook themes include special features like seasonal and holiday spreads, a page for a message from the preschool principal, student spotlights, and photo collage spreads for arts and crafts, music, field trips, highlights of the year, and others. Use these as prompts for your own custom ideas.

Content ideas for preschool classroom yearbooks

Your chosen preschool memory book theme will include excellent suggestions for categories and contents. Start by browsing the photos shared with parents via your preschool app, and gather photos from any other sources such as teachers and parents. Organize the photos to ensure equal coverage of every child, and make sure you cover all the most important and memorable moments of the school year.

Here are some suggestions for pages and spreads in your preschool memory book:

• Messages from the preschool director, teacher, and other important faculty members, along with their photos.
• First day of school photos, which you might place next to more recent ones to show how much the kids have grown.
• Big events, such as sports days, holiday celebrations, performances, and open houses.
• Candid moments of everyday preschool activities, such as playtime, art sessions, outdoor play, reading, naptime and snack time.
• Special places and “stations” in the classroom, such as a cozy reading corner, kids’ cubbies, and colorful wall displays.

Ideas to involve the kids

Even if you have plenty of photos for your preschool memory book, it can be really fun to involve the kids in creating the book. Plan special photo sessions around activities and sharing stories, and feature those pictures and words in the book. Here are some fun examples:

• Ask the kids about their favorite memories from preschool. Write these down to be included in the book.
• Have all the kids tell the teacher their favorite things e.g. color, book, animal, snack, or toy. You might take photos of the kids holding their favorite toy or wearing their favorite color.
• Ask “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Write down the answers, or involve the kids in creating drawings of those jobs, which they can hold up for a photo.
• Throughout the school year, photograph birthday celebrations for each child. Create a spread in the photo book around birthdays.
• Ask kids what new students need to know about their classroom or teacher, or what fun things they have to look forward to.

Think beyond the photos

Portraits, group shots, and candid photos of all the kids while learning and playing are a no-brainer for a preschool memory book. But, there are other creative images you could include as well. Here are some ideas:

• Scan or photograph their best works of art
• Have the kids create colorful paint handprints to scan and use as custom backgrounds or stickers
• Include a QR code that links to a video or sound recording of the class
• Write up a “rules of the classroom” list
• Create a “things we learned” spread with scanned sections of classwork or learning materials.

Get started on your preschool yearbook

Whether you’re a preschool educator or parent volunteer, being put in charge of a yearbook is an important and rewarding project. Let Mixbook help, and you’ll have a beautiful, meaningful memory book in your hands in no time.

Visit our yearbook page to complete the bulk order request form, or email us at sales@mixbook.com. An expert representative will reach out and be available to assist you every step of the way.