DIY Memento Table Variations
Adapt This Craft for Wedding, Graduation, Birthday, Children's Gifts
Jun 17, 2008
To find the directions for assembling our Momento Table simply click here. Here are some ideas for helping you get the most out of your table.
Wedding Gift
If the table is given prior to the wedding use the wedding invitation, photos of the bride and groom as children, teenagers and adults. You might use photos from their engagement or special moments in their life together. If you know the colors of the wedding you can add ribbons in the shades they will recognize. If they have souveniers from dates such as ticket stubs, flowers, or a performance program, you can request that they let you include them.
If you make the table after the wedding, include the little decorations from the shower and wedding.
Graduation Gift
For the graduates' table any ribbons or awards they recieved throughout their school years are great to use. You can include report cards from grade school that show the little comments from teachers along the way. If they are planning on going to college include a brochure on the college of their choice as well as something to represent their chosen field of study. You can scatter congratulations confetti throughout the memories or use graduation styled die cuts.
Birthday Gift
If this is for a milestone birthday you can really have fun with the photographs. For example, if the recipient is turning 50, use pictures of them as an infant and later learning to ride a bike. Use photos that show Christmas's and the family all together. Make sure you add die cut "50's" here and there throughout the collage. If you have access to their baby toys or report cards use those too. The idea for this one is to show time passing. You can even include a baby outfit with special significance.
Children's Gift
For a child you can really be creative. Most children are really into particular movie, cartoon, comic book or storybook characters. Print off pictures from the internet. Use pictures from color books and story books. Even take a puzzle and partially put it together, leaving the other pieces scattered around the remainder of the surface. Include small toys that represent who they are at this point in their life. You can include die cast cars, a barbie doll, drawings they have done, and even a plaster cast of their foot or hand print.
With any of these tables, the idea is to celebrate the person's life: past, present and future.
