Graduation scrapbook: Tips for a High School Scrapbook Album
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 though you have a school scrapbooking oben for your child, you’ll still want a high school graduation scrapbook album. High school memories can fill an entire album. You can choose a small album, but remember if you want to accommodate senior portraits, you’ll want a larger scrapbook.
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 are so many things you can include in a graduation scrapbook. Save a copy of your child’s graduation announcement and showcase it on a page. Be sure to include cards and letters from friends and family, especially ones with graduation advice. Write a letter to your child telling him your hopes and dreams for their future in any advice you wish you would have had when you graduated.
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.
Newspapers often cover graduations. Clip articles from your local paper for a graduation scrapbook page. If you or another family member have placed a congratulations newspaper ad for your graduate, make a photocopy of it to preserve it in the album. Newspaper articles tend to fade over time, and copies will last longer.
Graduation is full of photo opportunities. Think about the photos you want in your child’s graduation scrapbook, and make a list before the celebration starts. Pictures of the ceremony are important, but so are photos of your child with his friends, family and teachers.
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.
Candid shots are a fun way to document graduation parties. Send a camera with your child when he attends graduation celebrations. Plan to exchange photographs with your child’s friends as well. That way you’ll have plenty of candid photos to choose from for your graduation album.
You’ll definitely want to scrapbook a copy of your graduates final report card or high school transcript. On the opposite page layout scrapbook a copy of the acceptance letter for the college your child 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.
It’s easy to create a graduation scrapbook that will soon become a family heirloom. The most important part of designing a graduation scrapbook is to document and preserve your child’s high school memories.
