Graduation as a Scrapbook Theme
Graduation is a very good theme for use in a scrapbook. When to start planning your scrapbook is up to you; it could start a month or even years before the graduation. As an ongoing project, it could be something you use to record all the school years’ memories. This could be your project, or you could involve you child in the creative process. Your scrapbook could be created as a traditional scrapbook or you could make a digital scrapbook.
Keeping memories in a book or album like this will preserve them for the future. Keeping a record of achievements, trials and other passages through school years makes an album your child will treasure.
Graduation-themed scrapbooking papers and other materials could be helpful. And, you can add images such as clip art that you would print out, cut out and glue into the book. Preserve the photos and documents you are adding to a traditonal scrapbook by using archival safe adhesives.
The most personal things you can add make the album more interesting such as: iinformation about your child’s participation in clubs and hobbies or news articles about your child – and even a personal note about something you remember about them. Possible other additional documents to include are awards and report cards or copies of them. Ask your child’s teachers, friends or family for personal notes from them to add. Think about including special notes of personal recollections or of the times your son or daughter made you the proudest. Many of these items can be scanned to put into a digital scrapbook.
Here’s one way graduation scrapbooks can be divided: Add pages by each year of school with the class photos for each year. Prom or other school dance mementos. Buy some graduation stickers to add as embellishments. Dedicate a page for each year, such as: freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. For accents and interest on the page layouts, use die cuts. Die cuts are colorful paper or chipboard shapes with themes such as music, dance, or sports. These can be bought at art, craft and scrapbook supply stores.)
You can also leave room for candid photos of the graduation ceremony, parties, or events held before the graduation. Keep room in the scrapbook for any invitations to the graduation ceremony or announcements about the event. Handwritten captions and notes can be added, as well as journaling or poems.
Pick out a nice binder or scrapbook album to keep the graduation scrapbook pages in. Get an album large enough for school pictures, report cards, awards and certificates.
After graduation, when the diploma arrives, you might include a copy of it in the album. These years are worth remembering, so keep up-to-date with saving and colleting items to use for your scrapbook. This scrapbook will be a big hit with your son or daughter who is about to graduate from college, high school or middle school. And those memories are the kind you want to keep and share forever.
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