ALT-1 Graduation Gift Ideas for 2010
Graduation is a momentous occasion for the graduate and family alike. It marks the end of several years of hard study and exams and celebrates the emergence of a young adult in your family. It is a special time that most graduates will want to remember and cherish for many years to come. They will have many friends from their college years who will see them through the rest of their lives and graduation day is as much about their friends as their families.Great gifts among graduate friends are memory books and photo albums of their times together in college. There will be lots of photos and movies of parties, sports, days and nights out and of times just hanging-out which would make wonderful graduation gifts if all put together in a photo book or on a DVD. If you are good with editing photos and movies then you will have a great time putting it together for your friends. If not, most good photographic stores will be able to do this for you and print the book or DVD professionally and you can have them personalized for all your friends. You could even upload the whole thing to your preferred social networking websites. Other great unique gifts that friends can arrange and share are printed t-shirts with funny or sentimental phrases about their times at college. Its great to wear under your clothes on graduation day and makes a wonderful keepsake gift. Failing that, having your friends sign your shirt on graduation day also makes for a keepsake for yourself too, so don’t forget to bring along those marker pens!Gifts from family members might want to commemorate the day with engravings of dates and sentiments. Great gifts from parents include watches and graduation rings with the insignia of the graduates college, which can be engraved with congratulations. Other family members may want to gift college memorabilia like college scarves, ties, pins and hats. A great way to start your graduates career is with gift cards and gifts for their future plans. Whether they are going to travel, do a tour of Europe or gain experience from voluntary work abroad, or thinking of continuing their studies with a higher degree or have landed their first job, monetary gifts are acceptable and will help them get the equipment and books they need or help them to start a new home away from home.A perfect gift from a family member to commemorate the day is a photo shoot for the graduate and their family or friends. These can be arranged at the college on graduation day or at home with the family. The graduate and their family are sure to appreciate the photos of their graduate in mortarboard and gown, with scroll in hand, for years to come. A personalized photo frame with the date and college would be just beautiful and would make a great addition to the memory wall in any home.
