Family Scrapbooking For The Holidays

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It's the one time of year that even your teenagers will make an effort to participate in family activities. They may even instigate one or two new ones of their own ;-)

One of the activities we started while our kids were still teens was to use the joy of the season to create holiday scrapbooks for other family and friends. We found that it was actually quite easy to get the kids involved as even they loved going through the family vacation and holiday party photos from the last year and into years past.

The only real hard part was getting them to focus on only a few pages family archive of pictures and not trying to create a 200 page complete family heritage project. That kind of time, we usually just didn't have.

Keep the smiles coming... Some of the details our teenagers remembered from the past year alone were quite the eye openers. To be young and see the world like that again... I know it kept us smiling.

We would take one of the early long weekends, like Veterans Day in early November, and use the long weekend with no school to plan, start and even complete our family holiday scrapbook. We would start on Friday evening after school was out and use that time to brainstorm ideas to create the theme for that year. Once we got started, we would have little ideas pop up all night, during dinner, while watching TV and just before bed. We wrote each of them down on a long list, not stopping until lights out.

On Saturday morning, we would go over all the ideas over breakfast and choose one for the project. Each year, on member of the family was chosen (we went in order of birth and rotated each year) as project lead and they held the final decision power if we couldn't narrow it down to just one idea.