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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Make Time Capsule Keepsakes Ideas & Crafts for Kids
Below you will find many time capsule making crafts ideas and projects for kids. Find out how to make time capsules with the following arts and crafts decorations, instructions, patterns, and activities for children
How to Make Time Capsules

Take a large jar such as an apple sauce jar. Then put it under warm water and remove the lable with a little bit of dish soap. Let the label dry. Write a letter all aout yourself...say things such as your age, name, what your likes and dislikes are, who your best friends are, about school, activities, what your aspirations and hopes are, etc. The second letter should be about current events....write about some of the things that are going on right now, such as who the president is, recent tragedies, etc. Then roll each up into a cylinder shape and tie with a ribbon. Put both of these in the jar. Then put some of the items that represent who you are and the times that you live in such as some pictures, a news clipping, some items that are popular these days, and whatever else you want to put in there. Cover with saran wrap and then close tightly. Bury this time capsule in the back yard and dig it up in a few years to see how much you have changed.
Even More Time Capsule Craft Ideas Below
Making a New Years Memory Accordion Pocket Book Time Capsule- You can use this special fold-up, accordion pocketed book to hold all the memories of this year or next year … and then you can put it away as if it were a time capsule. Then you can try not to look at it for 10 years. You will be surprised at how much you have changed in that amount of time. Have fun.
Baby's
Time Capsule - This
is a wonderful idea for a baby shower. Once the box is completed you
can place many items of memorabilia inside for a keepsake.
Back-to-School Time Capsule Craft for Children - Time capsule Need a simple project for those itchy, edgy, last few days of summer vacation? Have your child assemble this Back-to-School Time Capsule. By adding to it each year, she can create a book of memories and milestones. Imagine a fifth grader looking back on what she liked and disliked in the summer before second grade; it would give her a great feeling of personal growth--and no doubt a good laugh!
Cookie
Tin Time Capsule - Capture your memories
by using a recycled cookie tin and making it into a cookie tin time
capsule.
Easy Time Capsule Craft Idea for Kids - Make your own time capsule in this easy activity that will help people in the future understand past cultures. Future generations will get the chance to learn about your life in this kids' activity.
Egg
Carton Time Capsule - Enjoy Crafting
with all family!
How To Make a Time Capsule - With a New Year upon us we always take time to reflect back on the previous year. Wouldn't it be great family tradition to make a time capsule with you and your family?
How to Make An Annual Time Capsule - Some people make time capsules that are contributed by community members, some are made individually, most are meant to be opened after 100 years or so. Well, most of us won't be around to enjoy or history, so why not make a time capsule that includes events of your year. Then open it during the holiday season next year and enjoy the memories all over again. This can be an annual tradition or something to do every few years. Kids can do this Time Capsule Project too and next year they can see how they have grown. It can be adapted to be given to long distant relatives, when coming home for a visit just isn't possible.
How to Create a Time Capsule - A time capsule is a way to communicate the present day to the future. It may also be a way to preserve parts of the past - such as when a time capsule is opened and the old contents are 're-capsuled' along with current items. In addition, you can use a time capsule to place your predictions in, or your hopes of a certain project, and later on open the capsule at a time when you can 're-think' or see it with 'eyes anew'. A time capsule can be as simple as a shoe box full of items reserved (or even forgotten) on a high closet shelf until a later date.
Make
a Time Capsule - This is an idea which
makes a super family project - and tradition! Get the kids to make a
"time capsule" for the year ahead, and fill it, together,
as the year goes on - with photos, ticket stubs, copies of
certificates won, birthday cards, writing samples, and anything else
with meaning to your family.
Make a Family Time Capsule Craft - Start a tradition of setting family and individual goals for each year, and then see how many goals your family accomplished.
Making a Family Time Capsule to Preserve Those Memories - Imagine a scene 25 years from now. Or 50. Or even a hundred, at the start of the next century. A family time capsule is discovered. The dust is blown off, the seal broken. And inside, are the pictures and writing of your ancestors. Discover here how you can preserve your family history!
Make a Family Time Capsule This New Year's - “Wrap up” another great year with your family with this fun activity that engages your child and the whole family in creating a time capsule of special memories.
Memory
Time Capsule - As the new year approaches, the
opportunity to reflect and preserve our family's memories and
traditions, and what best represents our world today, can be recorded
in a time capsule.
Memory
Box - Make a memory box at the beginning
of a New Year. It is a great way for children to think about what
they have done and achieved over the previous year, and makes a super
memory to pull out once a year and enjoy as a family.
Snow
Ball Time Capsule - This Snow Ball Time
Capsule will help you remember fun winter memories! A great craft to
share with friends!
Time
Capsule : Making Time Capsules for Children - Capture your life in a tin can
with this easy, fun craft!
Time
Capsule : Making Time Capsules for Children - Fun
to make while you are waiting for the countdown to begin.
Time
Capsule Can - Make this a tradition with
your family each New Year! Place one item from each family member
inside a decorated can marked with the year on the front. Wait until
all the kids are grown to open all the time capsules for a wonderful
family memory!
Time Capsule Craft :
How to Make a Time Capsule - Instructions for kids to make a special Time Capsule to help celebrate New Year's Day or any other special time.
Building Great Family Time Capsules - It's startling how quickly the years go by. Doesn't it seem like it's been about ten minutes since you were the age your children are now? Wouldn't it be great to go back and see yourself as a child, but through adult eyes?
How to Make a Time Capsule - Use these instructions on how to make a time capsule. Time capsules are a fun way to celebrate the New Year and preserve a record of a particular time in history that can be opened at a later date in the future.
How to Make a Time Capsule for Your Newborn Baby - Looking for an unusual and memorable gift? Why not preserve a slice of history by creating a time capsule for your loved one?
How to Make a Family Time Capsule - A time capsule can be a great family.
How to Make a Time Capsule : Keepsakes in Bottle Capsules - Memories of summer adventures can be saved for time (without scrapbooking). Put the items that spur memories into a bottle to look at throughout the year. This time capsule is more personal and will not be hidden for years before it is opened. All year long, the owner can look at his keepsakes and bring back memories of summer vacation, campouts, school, Christmas, family reunions, graduations, a day at the ocean, trip to Disneyland, or any other memory makers.
How to Make a Time Capsule : Pier55 - A Time Capsule can be a wonderful idea for all people who want to commemorate an important occasion. Time Capsules are the way to send our messages to the future, to show those who will live in the 2030s or 2040s what is important for us now. Maybe, just maybe, it is the way to communicate directly with our older selves, to remind us that a long time ago we were young and happy. (Grin)
Instructions for How to Make a Time Capsule - Time capsules are a fun way for kids, or anyone, to leave something by which future generations can remember us. They're also great for digging up later to enjoy yourselves. Most people bury time capsules at the beginning of a particular year but you can bury one anytime.
Make a Time Capsule - Time capsules show current daily life to people in the future. Everyday objects are placed in a sealed container and stored in a special place. On a certain date, maybe ten, twenty, or even one hundred years later, the capsules are opened. Time capsules show us what was important to people at the time the capsule was created.
Make a Time Capsule To Preserve Family Memories - A time capsule is a fun educational activity for kids of all ages.
Make a Cultural Time Capsule for Social Studies Classes - Students will make and bury a time capsule filled with materials that reflect the cultures and traditions found in their community today.
Preserving Memories: Creating a Family Time Capsule - These guidelines are provided for family learning and entertainment only. While they introduce important preservation concepts, they will not result in a professional or organizational time capsule intended to survive for more than a few years–the complexities of long-term preservation take more space than we have here. If a long-term time capsule is your goal, please see the Web sites recommended, and their information sources.
Time Capsule : Easy-to-make Time capsule for Kids - Collecting for this simple kid's time capsule provides memories and fun, all in one. It's a great way to spend New Year's Day.
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