Teens can have such a great time in high school. Preserving their high school memories by scrapbooking with teens will enable them to look back with fondness at their high school years. There will even be some not too great memories of high school that should be preserved.
When preserving high school memories by scrapbooking with teens, be sure to show the interest of the teens in the scrapbook pages. Next thing to do with teens when scrapbooking high school memories is to know you may not have ten pictures to fill up a page. Preserving high school memories will entail preserving some memories that were not too pleasant, be sensitive and tactful. And finally know that you will not need to include everything that is done in high school by teens.
Preserving high school memories by scrapbooking with teens will need to involve capturing the teens high school interests, his or her like or dislikes. When teens have been awarded or recognized for something preserve that special moment and event by scrapbooking it. Let the scrapbook pages reflect what the teens have done throughout high school.
Include pages of sports, clubs, plays, anything and everything that the teens did in high school. Make a page and a special place for the special events in high school life. Preserving high school memories by scrapbooking can show a teen’s personality and character. Let the teens decide how they want to do the scrapbook page. This will preserve their high school memories more to their liking and preferences.
Preserving high school memories by scrapbooking with teens may involve just one picture or maybe no picture but a piece of memorabilia from an event. When you are working with only one picture to put in a scrapbook page still use up the page and make it a special memory. When you have one picture, you can write a little something about the event, or include a program or tickets to help make the page nice.
If you are preserving a high school memory with your teen and there is no picture, use what there is by way of memorabilia. Teens could even draw a picture themselves to put in the scrapbook representing the event. Write or type up a little something about the event or memory being preserved. You could even take an after thought picture. If the teen wore something special, go take a picture of the dress or outfit and put that on the scrapbook page.
When you are preserving high school memories that are not too pleasant with teens, be sensitive with the feelings that surrounded the event. If teens want to minimize the page, that’s just fine. Let them include the memory, but hopefully without any unpleasantness. Try to help your teen see that it is good to have some sort of remembrance, even if the event or day was bad, like getting braces. Let them choose what goes in and possibly put any extra pictures behind the scrapbook page so they are not misplaced. The pictures may be appreciated later in life. For example the braces do come off.
Major moments in high school life should be preserved, but there isn’t really a need for making a separate page for each and every date a teen goes on. Also you may want to combine some of the pictures of friends in a teens’ high school life. Teens share photos a lot in high school. If your teen wants to keep all these small pocket size photos, put them in a collage on one or two pages, maybe one page for each year. Do remember that some high school memories are preserved with yearbooks, so try not to duplicate too much.
Preserving high school memories by scrapbooking with teens can be a great opportunity to have a teens’ personality come out in the scrapbook pages. Begin with having scrapbook supplies that will show the interest of the teens. Next keep in mind how many pictures you have of an event, and what other embellishments your teen can put on the page to add to it. Preserve the memories that may not be too great and fun, and finally don’t think everything needs to have it’s own page and may not even need to be put in the scrapbook.
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