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 album 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.

If your child is receiving a special award or honor at the graduation ceremony, be sure to design a page to highlight this accomplishment.  Once the graduation is over, either include the original certificate in the album or make a copy.

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.

Check your local newspaper for coverage of the graduation ceremony.  Include clips and articles for a scrapbook page.  Make a copy of any congratulations announcements made in the newspaper.  Because newspaper articles fade over time, it’s important to make copies to preserve them.

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.

Take lots of candid shots during graduation parties.  You may not be attending some of these parties.  So be sure to send along a camera with your graduate and plan to exchange photos with his friends, too.  You’ll have a lot more photos to choose from if you share them.

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.

As a final closing page to a graduation scrapbook, design a page around a photo of him leaving for college. You might also choose to close the scrapbook with two photos that show how he has grown.  Place a picture of his first day of kindergarten next to a graduation picture.

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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