There’s something about the holidays that make me nostalgic, and I’m sure I’m not alone. Since Ella has entered our lives I have an extremely strong urge to capture her holiday experiences, especially from these years when she’s so young that she probably won’t remember them. Doing some holiday themed scrapbooking is the perfect solution to document these memories and help your child to look back in the years to come.
Here are some ideas on how to scrapbook your family’s holiday memories:
- Focus on your favorite moments, not necessarily the moments that you “think” you should scrapbook. It doesn’t have the be the menorah lighting or the putting up of the Christmas tree that you capture. Maybe your favorite part of the festivities is watching your child cuddle with their much loved relative after a long day. Take a picture of them together, write down how it makes you feel and build a scrapbook page around that.
- If you have adopted an older child and this is their first holiday with you, be sure to capture many moments through pictures and words. Even though they’re not a baby, they still may be experiencing many holiday firsts as a member of your family.
- Scrapbook about your family’s traditions. Document them step by step with pictures and include journaling about when the tradition started and how you partake in it year after year.
- Include all family members. Everyone who’s old enough can make their own page about their favorite holiday memory from this year or years past. Or you can create a page with a photo of every family member and a quote from each of them about how they felt about this past holiday.
- There are tons of holiday themed scrapbook papers, embellishments and albums out there for you to choose from, but you can also use a lot of items that you have around the house. Be careful because not all paper products are acid free, and they can damage photos. You can incorporate wrapping paper, ribbons, cards, envelopes, recipes, invitations, calendar pages, receipts and more into your layouts.
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