Guest Author - Michelle McVaney
Halloween is a time that most people dust off their cameras to capture the costumes and fun! I had TONS of hallween photos so one of the very first theme albums I decided to create was a Halloween Scrapbook. I thought it would be really awesome to be able to look back over my childrens years of halloween all in one book. This album quickly became a family favorite!
The halloween scrapbook gives you the opportunity to look back over the years to see the different costumes, but most importantly how each child has changed and grown each year! I still include a page or two of halloween in our yearly family album as well. But the Halloween scrapbook gives me a collective place to keep all the years of halloween together which adds a really need perspective!
Where to start?
Go through your photos and collect as many years worth of Halloween photos that you can find.
Put the photos in order of year and decide how many pages per each years halloween you are going to create. You may want to consider making each child a book of their own, featuring just them and then include a small picture of the rest of the family. Then your child will have this book to look back on their halloween for the rest of their lives. Instill the desire to preserve memories in your child and they too will continue adding each years pictures to their album even after they have grown up!
I have a famiy Halloween album and working on going back and making each child an album of their own as well. They are actually very excited about helping with this project for their own albums! In my family halloween scrapbook I typically do a two page spread of pumpkin patch and carving. A two page spread of Halloween costumes and candy sorting and include journaling from each child.
Pictures to include:
Pumpkin Patch
Pumpkin Carving
Halloween costumes
Candy sorting (we always include a candy count- my kids have a tradition of dumping the candy and counting how many pieces. We add this to our journaling for the year!)
Whether you decide to do an album for each child or just a family album. Add some journaling from each child. Why did they choose their costume for that year? What was their favorite memory of that halloween? Favorite Treat? Where did they trick or treat? How many pieces of candy did they get?
This is such a fun album to create! There are lots of great halloween products to choose from. You will find the traditional orange and black as well as lots of non-traditional color schemes!
A Halloween scrapbook is not only fun to create but it will be one that your family will truly enjoy looking at for many years to come!
