Scrapbooking is a popular pastime. Using stickers, pictures, and other cute items, you can turn your scattered family memories into an organized history to share with others. Here are some tips for creating a family history scrapbook.
1. Gather your information. Call your relatives and see if they have pictures or family heirlooms they wouldn’t mind you including in a pictorial history of your family. Pictures should include names, places, and dates on the back if they are known. Other information that has been collected over the years like newspaper clippings, flyers, and announcements are also great for scrapbooks. Leave no stone unturned.
2. Ask family members for their participation. Each family member who will be included in the scrapbook needs something to that identifies them. Use pictures, ribbons, and certificates.
3. Give each family member a questionnaire. You can ask for things like your favorite childhood memory, names of as many relatives as you can think of, description of where you grew up, and other questions that yield valuable information. Create a miniature copy of the questionnaire and answers to add to the scrapbook.
4. Create a scrapbook page for each person. To give a good idea of who each person is, give them their own page in your book. Paste as many of the items that they give you on the page in whatever pattern you choose. For scrapbooks that already have pages, add embellishments to fit in with the items.
5. Crop your photos. To fit as many pictures on the page as you can, cut them into interesting shapes. If you need to, record the names of the people in the photos beside it in one of those cute bubbles they use in comic strips when people are speaking.
6. Have more than one scrapbook. With all of the embellishments and photos your scrapbook won’t hold too many pages. You may have to create separate volumes just to give the entire family a page.
7. Create a collage page. Take one picture of each person and cut it down to the head. Combine the pictures on the page with numbers on each one. Create an answer key so that family members who look at it and try to guess the names can check their answers. It puts a fun ending on the family scrapbook. Try using a mix of baby pictures, childhood pictures, and adult pictures to challenge everyone.
Take your photos and other family heirlooms out of the boxes and mothballs and put them together in a pictorial of your family. Older and younger generations are brought together when they study their heritage.
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