Family Vacations

• During your next family vacation, pass over your digital camera to your child to take pictures of the things she most enjoyed. Or, consider buying a disposable camera for your child and allowing her to take pictures of anything she would like. When the vacation is over, print the pictures and gather some other appropriate scrapbook materials. Encourage your child to write short memories next to each picture she chooses to place in the book.
  
  

School Days

• Gather pictures from each first day of school your child has experienced thus far. With your help, encourage your child to remember teachers' names, friends' names and special events that took place during each school year. Place the first day of school pictures alongside your child's written memories of important events, friends and activities. Gather any other pictures that highlight your child's memories and place them in the scrapbook to create a school timeline through the years.
  
  

Birthdays

• Similar to a page celebrating school days, try creating a page for each birthday a child has experienced thus far. Find pictures of birthday parties, and recall with your child gifts they may have received that year. Encourage your child to write memories of past birthday celebrations and add these to that year's birthday page. Make a simple "stats" template for each birthday page that lists height, weight and milestones your child accomplished that year.
  
  

Friends

• All children enjoy talking about their friends and their adventures together. Give your child a disposable camera and encourage him to take pictures of himself with his buddies while playing outdoors or just hanging out. Collect these photos and encourage your child to create a scrapbook page dedicated to his friends. Ask him to recall special memories and adventures he and his friends have experienced together and gather as many details about these fun times as he can. He can also ask his friends to write their memories, and display these alongside his own.
  
  

Year by Year

• Each year on January 1, ask your child to paint her hand and make a handprint on a scrapbook page. As the year progresses, allow your child to jot down important memories, milestones and successes on the handprint page. As the year ends, your child can add pictures to this special page. Each year on December 31, read through your child's special year of memories together. Choose one day each year to look back on all of the previous years' handprints and compare the size of your child's hand on each page.