Does someone in your family have a milestone birthday coming up? Whether the birthday boy, girl, man, or woman is celebrating their sweet sixteen, turning eighteen, twenty one, forty, fifty, or any other significant number there is a fun family history project that makes a great gift. If you have access to old pictures from the birthday person’s past birthdays, why not turn them into a Birthday Book.
A Birthday Book is a great family keepsake because it keeps pictures of one particular person all together and shows how they look at different times in their life. You could make it a photo album, or take it a step further and make it into a scrapbook with a page or half of a page dedicated to each birthday party that you have pictures from. One fun thing that you can do with a Birthday Book is leave blank pages at the end for future birthday photos, including a picture of the guest of honor opening the package that contains his or her Birthday Book.
The first page of a Birthday Book could be a picture of the person’s first birthday party, or you could go all out and get pictures of them as a newborn. Information like the person’s date of birth, length, weight, parents’ names can mingle with information about what was going on in the world that day. Have some fun and be creative, and use this as an opportunity to add information about other relatives in the pictures as well as family history tidbits here and there.
If you yourself do not have the birthday person’s pictures from years past, ask other relatives like parents, brothers, and sisters. They will probably be more than willing to help you with your special birthday present for the guest of honor.
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