Is your child graduating this year?  The time seems to go by so fast. It often seems like only yesterday that our graduates started kindergarten.  Now they are graduating high school and will be off to college by fall.  It's important to preserve and document those special final moments of high school in a graduation scrapbook.

You may already have a school scrapbooking album for your child, but high school graduation memories can fill an entire scrapbook.  Dedicate one album for this special occasion.  It doesn't need to be a large album, but one that can accommodate professional portraits might be important if you plan to include the sittings for senior pictures.

Senior pictures are usually taken the summer before a student's senior year.  Still, they deserve a page in a graduation album.  Use your favorite pose or the one used in the high school yearbook for your graduation scrapbook's title page.

Preparing a scrapbook for high school and memories doesn't have to be difficult.  Take a copy of your child's graduation announcement and showcase it on a page layout.  Don't forget to include cards and letters from family and friends.  Highlight ones with graduation advice.  Include a special letter from you with a personal message to your child.  Tell him your hopes and dreams for the future along with things you wish you would have been told on graduation day.

Is your child receiving an honor or award at the graduation ceremony?  Design a page layout to highlight this accomplishment.  After the ceremony is over, make a copy to include in the album.

If your child is giving a speech at the ceremony, snap some pictures of him practicing for the speech.  You can even save his draft or notes and use them on a scrapbook page.

Did your local newspaper cover the graduation ceremony?  Make copies of these articles for the scrapbook.  Newspaper fades quickly.  So you want to make photocopies.  If you placed in a congratulations announcement in the paper, include this as well.

Graduation is full of photo opportunities. Think about the photos you want in your child's graduation scrapbook, and make a list before the celebration starts.  Pictures of the ceremony are important, but so are photos of your child with his friends, family and teachers.

Include high school mementoes in the scrapbook album.  One page layout should show the graduation ceremony program.  Scrapbook two copies on the page showing both the cover and the inside as much as possible.

Take lots of candid shots during graduation parties.  You may not be attending some of these parties.  So be sure to send along a camera with your graduate and plan to exchange photos with his friends, too.  You'll have a lot more photos to choose from if you share them.

You should definitely include a copy of your child's final report card or transcript.  A nice complement to the scrapbooking page would be a copy of the college acceptance letter he received from the college he plans to attend.

The final closing page to the graduation scrapbook could be a photograph of him leaving for college.  You might also choose to include a picture of his first day of kindergarten alongside a graduation picture.

A graduation scrapbook will become a family heirloom.  You don't need to make it complicated.  The most important part of a graduation scrapbook is to preserve and document your graduate's special day.

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