Need creative ideas for my son's graduation cards.
June 16, 2010 10:04 AM Subscribe
Need creative ideas for my son's graduation cards.
My son received dozens of graduation cards, many with encouraging notes and words of wisdom hand-written inside. I would love to find some special way to preserve these cards. Bonus points for something he can take to college with him (small dorm room friendly). Zero points for scrapbooks & albums.
My son received dozens of graduation cards, many with encouraging notes and words of wisdom hand-written inside. I would love to find some special way to preserve these cards. Bonus points for something he can take to college with him (small dorm room friendly). Zero points for scrapbooks & albums.
Scan them all and make some sort of presentation with it. Something he (and you) can keep on your computers and visit when the whimsy strikes him.
I agree with gumtree, while it's very sentimental and thoughtful, it doesn't scream "college freshman wall decor" to me, really. You also run the risk of it getting damaged.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:23 AM on June 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
I agree with gumtree, while it's very sentimental and thoughtful, it doesn't scream "college freshman wall decor" to me, really. You also run the risk of it getting damaged.
posted by jerseygirl at 10:23 AM on June 16, 2010 [1 favorite]
Yeah scanning them into Picasa and making up a slideshow, with music and mixed in photos would be a way to preserve them in a space friendly manner.
posted by msbutah at 10:24 AM on June 16, 2010
posted by msbutah at 10:24 AM on June 16, 2010
From my own experience, one of the best things in college was getting actual mail from actual people. I think it would be pretty neat for you to curate follow-up letters/cards/notes (with, maybe, anecdotes about those peoples' experiences in college) from people who gave your son some of the more meaningful or important graduation cards, and then send these follow-ups to your son at college, one a week, with the original grad card sent along with it. This way he not only gets to re-read the cards, he also gets mail, has something to look forward to in his mailbox each week, and sees that has a support community back home who continue to think of him and wish him well beyond just landmark dates like graduations.
posted by shakespeherian at 10:25 AM on June 16, 2010
posted by shakespeherian at 10:25 AM on June 16, 2010
Scan them and make a small photobook of them. Put the originals away safely for the future.
posted by Iteki at 10:46 AM on June 16, 2010
posted by Iteki at 10:46 AM on June 16, 2010
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I knew someone my freshman year who kept finding little notes that her family had hidden throughout her room when she was moving in. It was sort of adorable and creepy.
Although the thought is nice, would your son actually want something like this hanging up in his dom room?
posted by gumtree at 10:13 AM on June 16, 2010