Birthday Time Capsule

On your birthday, make a secret time capsule for yourself, to be opened in five years. In an envelope or shoe box, collect things to be a record of the event. Some possibilities are:

Snapshots of friends, family members, pets, your birthday party, etc.
Your school picture.
A cassette tape of you and your friends talking or of you practicing your instrument.
All the stuff that's in your pocket.
A TV guide.
Letters or cards you received this year.
Labels off boxes, bottles and cans of your favorite food.
Ribbon from a gift.
Name of a favorite book or song.
A newspaper (or front page of a newspaper) for the day.
A letter to yourself with messages for yourself five years from now.

Seal the outside of your time capsule well. Write on the outside: Time capsule from my ___th birthday. Do not open until ___________. Put it someplace where it will be safe for five years.

For your family history book, write a paragraph reminding yourself of where you stored your time capsule!