MEMORY ALBUM GUIDELINES

Skills to teach:

• The importance of preserving memories
• Photo journaling
• Photo documentation
• The importance of using archival quality

Guidelines:

General:

• Albums and supplies must be acid free and photo safe
• Albums must be neat
• Pages must be in order
• A 3x5 card including the students age, year in project, brand or make of albums and supplies and what they learned with this project, must accompany the album.

1st year students:

• Album  7x7 or larger.
• Must have a title page.
• Must have at least 15 sides completed
• Must have photo journaling on each page. (Example the Who Jill Martin my friend, Where Disneyworld in 2003, what on the Priate of Caribbean ride.
• Must have at least 1 piece of memorabilia (cards, awards, brochures, etc.)

2nd year students:

• Must show where started 2nd year of pages or start a new album.
• Must have at least 15 new sides added.
• Instead of heritage page A nice picture of family.  1 picture on page with more than 3 sentences telling story of family.

3rd year and up students:

• A new album with 1 specific event (holidays or vacation story of family, school years, 4-H years, sports, dance, yourself, or etc.).
• Must include a title page.
• Must include photo journaling and documentation of all pages.
• Must include memorabilia as it pertains.(Play tickets, ribbions, and programs from above events).

Judging guidelines:
        Material quality
        Creativity
        Overall appeal