Creating a Time Capsule

Looking for a fun family activity to ring in the New Year? How about spending an afternoon creating a time capsule together.
Here's what you’ll need:
-Cookie tin (or similar type); washed and dried
-Rag
-Sandpaper
-Newspaper
-Spray Paint
-Paint Markers in Assorted Colors
-Memorabilia
-Glue or tape

How to make it:

1. Take the lid off the tin and lightly sand the cookie tin all over on the the outside to rough up the paint

2. Wipe off the tin with the rag and spread out newspapers under the tin.

3. Spray paint the cookie tin, let it dry as you gather pictures, artwork, etc.

4. Use paint markers to add your message on the top of it:

  Time Capsule: Don’t open until New Years Eve 2010 These are a few of our favorite things (add music notes around the words) 

and family members names could go around the exterior of the tin.

5. Let each member of the family place a few special items in the tin that represented 2009 to them.

6. Clip out news articles, or put in the best movie titles of the year, the kids’ favorite songs, etc. Pictures of the family, or the kid’s school year photos. Artifacts from somewhere special you all went. You get the idea… anything that is important to you

NOW.

7. Seal up the tin with glue or tape.

8. Last of all, find a safe hiding place for your time capsule. Hopefully someplace where no one will find it for quite awhile.

Suburban Share: What would go in your time capsule?

This idea comes to you from the website BusyBusyHappy.com - an enlightened look at thriving in the burbs.  Check them out for more fun family ideas.