Scrapbooking has a bad rep for being something only a stay-at-home mom does. But what family doesn’t enjoy seeing old photo albums on the shelves, just waiting for a rainy day to be adored.
Your next camping trip should become a family scrapbook project for everyone to enjoy! Each family member should be responsible for one or two pages documenting the camping fun. Let them choose the content, you may be surprised what they think was great! Get creative and use pressed leafs gathered from the campsite to mount photos on. Write goofy captions and page titles to help remember funny stories.
To create a handmade rustic photo album, make your pages out of cardstock and punch five holes down one side of each page. Make a cover page with the family name on it, and where the family went camping. The back cover page should include the date and names and ages of everyone. Find a thick, sturdy and straight stick around your campsite. Use the stick and hemp string to create the binding of the book, be sure to tie each end securely and cut off the excess string. Fill the book with photos, brochures, postcards, maps and drawings. Camp prepared to make the pages while you are on vacation, or wait until you get home and make a family night of it. Hobby stores sell numerous styles of stickers and decorations based on camping, hiking and fishing. Encourage your family to use their imagination and when the book is tied together, it will be cherished for generations. Make it a camping tradition, one album for each year!