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Is your child graduating high school 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.

Senior
pictures are usually taken the summer before a student’s senior year.
Still, they deserve a page in a graduation album. Use your favorite
pose or the one used in the high school yearbook for your graduation
scrapbook’s title page.

There’s so much to include in a
graduation scrapbook. Reserve one copy of your child’s graduation
announcement and showcase it on a page. Following that page, include
cards and letters from family and friends, especially ones with
graduation advice. You might even include a letter from you with a
personal message to the graduate. Write your hopes and dreams for their
future along with advice you wish you would have been given on
graduation day.

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.

Is your child
giving a speech at the graduation ceremony? Take some pictures of your
child preparing and practicing for the speech. Save his notes,
including drafts, and use them on a page layout.

Newspapers often
cover graduations. Clip articles from your local paper for a graduation
scrapbook page. If you or another family member have placed a
congratulations newspaper ad for your graduate, make a photocopy of it
to preserve it in the album. Newspaper articles tend to fade over time,
and copies will last longer.

Graduation is full of photo
opportunities. Think about the photos you want in your child’s
graduation scrapbook, and make a list before the celebration starts.
Pictures of the ceremony are important, but so are photos of your child
with his friends, family and teachers.

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 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.

A
graduation scrapbook will become a family heirloom. You don’t need to
make it complicated. The most important part of a graduation scrapbook
is to preserve and document your graduate’s special day.

Christine
Perry is an avid scrapbooker and has over 10 years of scrapbooking
experience. Her favorite scrapbooking subjects are her reluctant
teenagers. She invites you to her website, http://www.intoscrapbooking.com for more scrapbooking ideas and information on clear stamp scrapbooking.