One inspiring thing came out of helping my parents move. It was finding old pictures, scrapbooks, and memorabilia. We sat for hours and laughed at old photos. We flipped through yearbooks, pressed flowers, ticket stubs, and newspaper clippings.
We found priceless keepsakes. To me, these are treasures! I may not have the people that I loved so dearly, but I can cherish the delicate items they left behind to help me remember the moments we shared.
Here are some of my favorite ways to capture travel memories.
1. Make Scrapbook Pages. This is a fantastic way to encourage kids to help with capturing memories. Keep your ticket stubs, postcards, and travel souvenirs to cut and paste with your own photos. Press flowers into the pages, or Let the kids help journal and boost their writing skills. Decorate your pages with fun colors and stickers.
2. Take Videos. My kids love using a Go Pro camera or even their cell phones to capture our adventures. They made silly videos to document their activities here at home and even play tour guide when we travel. Capturing their voices and laughter to listen to for years to come is priceless.
3. Share Photos on Instagram. Did you know you can set up your own private Instagram account for your kids? Encourage them to share and post photos with each other. You can even create your own unique hashtag, like #HicksFamilyAdventure2020, so you can easily find them all in one place. We love sharing for our family and friends who ask to follow our travel adventures.
4. Buy or make a Christmas Ornament. Whenever we take a trip, we always find a special dated Christmas ornament from that location. Each year as we put up our tree, we are excited to see our different ornaments and remember all of the fun places we have been together. We have a carved wooden turtle from Hawaii, a hand painted ornament from Turks and Caicos, and several Mickey Mouse ornaments from Disney.
5. Find a Unique Treasure. We collect small treasures from each trip to remember what we loved about the location. We have bought pressed pennies, shells, straw baskets, even a piece of lava rock. These treasures do not have to be big or bulky items. I collect trading pins from Walt Disney World from each resort we have stayed in and keep them all on a lanyard in my office.
Share some of your ideas with us!
