New Year Time Capsule Preschool Craft

Start a New Year’s tradition with your preschooler this year. Create a time capsule that your preschooler can personalize with his/her favorite items and memories from the past 12 months. You can use just about any sturdy container but a cookie tin (left over from Christmas!) works really well. Let your preschooler decorate the outside as well as the inside of the tin an don’t forget to include a photograph!

What You Need

Cookie Tin
Stickers, construction paper, paints, marker, etc. for decorating
Things to put inside

Ideas of things to include:
Photographs
Pair of socks to remember how small he/she was
Tracing of his/her hand
List of “favorite things”
Newspaper clippings
Special mementos from vacations

How To Make It

Step One:
Talk to your preschooler about what a time capsule is. Then, let him/her decorate the outside and inside.

Step Two:
Using markers, be sure to put the year on the outside of the tin.

Step Three:
Add all of the special items you have collected over the past year that will be meaningful in the years to come. Put your time capsule in a safe place and in a few years, pull it out and remember times gone by.

Variations

You can use a larger container for this craft and continue to add to it every year rather than making a separate one each time. This will allow you to open it up and reminisce every New Year.

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