Make the Family Vacation Memories Last With These 5 Unique Tips
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Family trips take a lot of planning, patience, and often a lot of cash, but they are one of the best ways to bond with your kids!
It’s an escape from the family calendar.
You are sharing new experiences, locations, and activities.
Relaxing and recreation are the highlights.
Whether your trips are quests for historic sites, theme parks, or the great outdoors, many memories will be made, and you can make the most of those memories in your home with a little creativity.
5 Family Vacation Memory Tips
Take a few iconic photos on your trip with no people in them. Maybe a picture of your tent with the moon behind it, or Cinderella’s Castle, or the view of the beach, or Big Ben? Take a few of these so that you can choose from a variety. Pick 1-2 to print and frame for a family vacation collage in your home. Leave room to add other pictures from future trips. I printed ours in black and white photos, but you can add any filter or leave them unfiltered. It’s a fun wall to have after your kids move out and come back to visit. It will spark a trip down memory lane!
Get a simple journal that you can take with you on your trips. Family members can add to it as they wish throughout the trip or when they get home. Let kids draw pictures or write stories about a particular day’s events. Leave the journal on a coffee table occasionally, or bring it out during a family dinner.
Spend some time on the way home or shortly after you get home reflecting together on your trip. A Great way to do this is to use the Rose, Bud, Thorn prompt to get people talking. For more on this, you can read about it here.
Consider a collection of postcards or pressed pennies from the places you visit. We have collected the Starbucks mugs from all of our vacations, and those are the everyday coffee, tea, and hot chocolate mugs we use. Seeing which one will be waiting when I grab my morning cup is fun!
Lastly, I love our digital Aura Photo Frame. You can upload pictures from your vacation location so they show up when you arrive home. You can upload short videos as well. There are different sizes and price points.
Have a blast with the kids, and don’t forget to plan to bring some of those memories home!
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