My mind is already working on ideas for my husband for Father’s Day and I naturally thought of a Father’s Day scrapbook. My daughter and I have made a number of custom scrapbooks for “daddy” over the past 10 years. These scrapbooks make wonderful gifts! Whether you’re a scrapbooker yourself of you need to hire a custom scrapbooker to create the perfect Father’s Days scrapbook, in my opinion there are very few gifts that can beat the memories, love and heart that go into this perfect homemade gift. A Father’s Day scrapbook is one that “Dad” will look at again and again.
There are different approaches you can take with a Father’s Day scrapbook. Here are a few:
1. Create a small scrapbook (I recommend 8 x 8 or smaller) and focus on 1 photo per page. Let that photo shine (as in the example above) to celebrate a moment in time. It’s fun to do one photo per month and create a simple 12-page scrapbook to remember the past year.
2. Create a themed scrapbook of the past year. Focus on different moments in time that happened during the year, where “Dad” was involved: family vacations, family holidays, family birthdays and family weekends are just a few ideas. Each spread of the scrapbook can focus on one event.
3. Create an “as I grow” scrapbook. These are fun! Each single- or two-page spread represents one year in the child’s life. (Age 1, age 2, age 3, etc., up to present.) Have your kids journal notes to dad based on the memories those photos evoke. For example, take the scrapbook page shown above. You or your child (if your child is old enough to write) might journal: “Daddy, piggy back rides are so much fun with you! You always make me laugh.” Let the words be those of your child/children, as if they are speaking to their dad.
No matter what, create your Father’s Day scrapbook and fill it with the love, laughter and the quiet day-by-day moments in your life. This is one gift that will bring tears to a dad’s eyes!
