Time Capsule, Saving memories for the future

One of the most interesting and rewarding uses for The100YearWebSite is to set up a baby Time Capsule. As always you can set up the Time Capsule at any stage but if you can, try and start the time capsule during your pregnancy.

Below we have listed some of the ways people have used their baby time capsule and included our own thoughts and ideas for you.

• Keep a baby diary week by week explaining how you feel.
• Write messages to the child throughout your pregnancy, tell them how excited or nervous you are, it makes great reading when they are older.
• Obviously photos are going to play a big part in the time capsule, make sure all your photos are accompanied by a description explaining when the photo was taken, what was happening in the photo, the more you write the more you will get out of it in years to come.
• Include scans of any cards you get when the baby arrives and accompany these with photos of the people who sent them - when you include these photos describe the persons relationship to the family, maybe add the persons age and where they live.
• Video messages from friends and family make really interesting viewing
• One of the fun ideas that we have been told about was to video or write down and add predictions as to what you think the child will be when they grow up.
• Throughout the childs life you can scan in pictures they draw, letters they write.
• When you measure the child against a door frame or similar take a photos and add it to the capsule.
• Snippets of their favourite tv programmes are always fun (make sure you get permission from the copyright owners, this is not as difficult as you think as this is not a sharing site)
• Copies of their favourite nursery rhymes and songs
• Scan in school reports and any medals, certificates they earn.
• One of The100YearWebSite team is taking a photo of his niece every christmas day and is adding them to the capsule. In 18 years time they will be able to look back and see how the child changes and grows with a snapshot every christmas for 18 years.
• You can put your baby time capsule in the public domain, password protect it for friends or family or even virtually bury it until a time in the future.

A nice example of a baby time capsule can be seen here.

As always we are keen to get any suggestions to add to this list, please use the contact us form on the main site.

Tags: archiving, Baby gift, Baby present, Baby Time Capsule, New Baby, time capsule

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