ALT-2 Fathers Day Scrapbook Ideas
Making a scrapbook as a Fathers Day gift can be a fun and extremely rewarding undertaking. There are many different things that you can include in a scrap book for Fathers Day, but one of them is not blank pages. Make sure that all of the pages within the scrapbook are used, and with different remembrances captured in different materials. You can, however, leave a couple of pages at the end of the scrapbook, and write "Notes" on the top of each blank page. Each person in the family can have their own page to include things that they relate to their father, and how dad has enriched their lives, and sign their pages with fun or sentimental sayings, as well as their names.
On one page of your Father's Day scrapbook, you can use spaghetti and noodles to make a pictogram of your dad doing his favorite sport, whether he is in a fishing boat with a big trout at the end of his line, or golfing on a pretty landscape, with his ball right beside the hole, or a series of balls showing the flight of the ball right into the hole from his perfect swing. The idea is to include memories of times spent with your father, husband or son, and to show him that you remember how it made you feel, and what he means to you. Including some pages in a comical, teasing or ironic approach can be fun, as long as it depicts something that he enjoyed, and had a good laugh at the pratfalls himself. Embarrassing moments that have been lovingly re-told can be styled in a caricature-type page, but try to keep with the loving, memory inducing times for the core of your Father's Day scrapbook.
Collecting small things that were part of, or signifying of a special event in your Fathers' past, especially if that event included you, and any other siblings you may have, and including it on a page with a hand-written note of remembrance of the event is what makes scrapbooking so special, and will surely melt dad's heart. If you went to a baseball, hockey or basketball game, car race, golf match, or any sporting event together in your past, include the receipts or ticket stubs (hopefully you have a pack-rat for a Mother) taped onto a drawn picture of the sport involved. If you went horse back riding with him when you were young, then include a few strands of horse hair (easily found in any farm supply or craft store) and a poem of what it made you feel like that special day. The same motto here can be used for any special day that you spent with your father, while growing up or recently. Of course, including actual pictures of any special times is a requisite.
The Internet, with all of its' free picture editing software, provides you with a means to make different styles of pictures, from cartoon to sports-illustrated cover shots. You can super-impose pictures of dad's face on other people's bodies, like president Bush in the White House, or his favourite movie star or athlete's body, in a scene that is hilarious to all.
If that scrapbook gift is for the man who stood beside you on the altar all those years ago, include things from all the special days in your relationship together, from your first date, all the major anniversaries and major events that shaped your lives together. Mementos of life's special moments with the man that you loved, as a father, husband or son can be drawn in different types of household items, or you can stroll around in the crafts sections of your favorite stores. Seeing that you remembered all those times together, and what they meant to you, will be a gift from your heart directly to his.
Anything that your father helped you to do should be involved within the scrapbook. If he used to, or has been taking you to hockey practices in the mornings, maybe include pictures of any memorabilia you have from your hockey playing days - like team patches, pictures of trophies, your team picture, etc, with a "without you, none of this would have been possible" notation. If it was figure skating, soccer, dance or music lessons, chances are your father drove you there, and put up a proud face listening to or watching you as you learned your favorite past-times, sports or hobbies. Showing that the love he gave was noticed, appreciated and returned is more than any father could ever hope for.
And a scrapbook is the perfect gift to memorialise all of those special moments that, together, make up a life together, as a family. The scrapbook can be placed on the coffee table for all to see, or in dad's parlour, den or work office, where he can show off all the hard work that was put into his great Father's Day treasure.
