Graduation Scrapbook: Ideas for High School Graduation Memories
Author: ChristinePerry Total views: 10 Word Count: 587
Did your child graduate this year? Four years of high school seems to go by so fast. Wasn't it just yesterday that are graduates started kindergarten? Now they'll be headed off to college by fall. Don't forget to preserve and document your child's high school graduation memories with a graduation scrapbook.
Even if you already have a school scrapbook album for your child, the high school years can fill an entire album. You don't need to use a large album unless you want to include professional senior portraits. Otherwise, you can use a smaller format album.
Senior pictures deserve a special place in any graduation album. Your student's senior pictures are usually dominate the summer before his senior year. Choose your favorite pose and use that for the title page of your scrapbook album.
There's so much to include in a graduation scrapbook. Reserve one copy of your child's graduation announcement and showcase it on a page. Following that page, include cards and letters from family and friends, especially ones with graduation advice. You might even include a letter from you with a personal message to the graduate. Write your hopes and dreams for their future along with advice you wish you would have been given on graduation day.
Is your child receiving an honor or award at the graduation ceremony? Design a page layout to highlight this accomplishment. After the ceremony is over, make a copy to include in the album.
If your child is giving a speech at the ceremony, snap some pictures of him practicing for the speech. You can even save his draft or notes and use them on a scrapbook page.
Did your local newspaper cover the graduation ceremony? Make copies of these articles for the scrapbook. Newspaper fades quickly. So you want to make photocopies. If you placed in a congratulations announcement in the paper, include this as well.
There are so many photo opportunities during a graduation ceremony. Make a list of photos you want to take before the ceremony. Don't forget to include pictures of your child with his family, friends and teachers. Include high school mementoes in the scrapbook album. One page layout should show the graduation ceremony program. Scrapbook two copies on the page showing both the cover and the inside as much as possible.
Create a special scrapbook page for the graduation ceremony program. Save at least 2 copies of it so you can show both the front cover and the inside on a page layout.
Send a camera with your graduate to any graduation parties. Then you'll have a lot of candid shots of your child with his friends. Try to exchange photos with his friends too. Sharing photos will give you a lot more options for your scrapbook graduation pages.
You may want to include a copy of your graduate's final report card or grade transcripts. A nice complement to this would be a copy of the acceptance letter to the college he plans to attend.
The final closing page to the graduation scrapbook could be a photograph of him leaving for college. You might also choose to include a picture of his first day of kindergarten alongside a graduation picture.
A graduation scrapbook will become a family heirloom. You don't need to make it complicated. The most important part of a graduation scrapbook is to preserve and document your graduate's special day.
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