Is your child graduating this year?  The time seems to go by so fast. It often seems like only yesterday that our graduates started kindergarten.  Now they are graduating high school and will be off to college by fall.  It’s important to preserve and document those special final moments of high school in a graduation scrapbook.

You may already have a school scrapbooking album for your child, but high school graduation memories can fill an entire scrapbook.  Dedicate one album for this special occasion.  It doesn’t need to be a large album, but one that can accommodate professional portraits might be important if you plan to include the sittings for senior pictures.

The summer before your child senior year of high school, he will usually sit for senior portraits.  Those special pictures should have a page in a graduation album.

Preparing a scrapbook for high school and memories doesn’t have to be difficult.  Take a copy of your child’s graduation announcement and showcase it on a page layout.  Don’t forget to include cards and letters from family and friends.  Highlight ones with graduation advice.  Include a special letter from you with a personal message to your child.  Tell him your hopes and dreams for the future along with things you wish you would have been told 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.

Before the celebration even starts, make a list of the photo opportunities you don’t want to miss.  Photographs of your graduate with family, teachers and friends are as important as pictures of the actual ceremony.

Mementos of high school graduates should include the program from the graduation ceremony.  Try to preserve more than one copy to use on a graduation scrapbook page to show both the cover and the inside as much as possible.

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 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.

For the final page of the graduation scrapbook, create a special page layout highlighting a photograph of your child leaving for college.  You could even place a picture of your child on his first day of kindergarten next to a graduation photograph.

It’s easy to create a graduation scrapbook.  It will soon become a family heirloom.  Keep it simple, and remember the most important thing is to scrapbook and document your graduate’s special day.

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