This is the seventh day in a series: 31 Days of Memory Keeping. Check out all the posts here.
With today's technology, it is so easy to make videos. We have made dozens of videos of our kids using our iphones!
Videos are a timeless way to capture your family's story.
Here are 25 video ideas (in no particular order):
- Baby's birth story
- Your child singing the ABCs
- Your baby laughing
- Your baby eating food for the first time
- Dancing with a loved one
- Every day life stuff – brushing teeth, getting dressed, waving etc.
- First words
- Baby sign language
- Walking
- Sports games
- Family outing to the zoo
- Yearly video on child's birthday
- Videos about parenting stories
- Playing cars
- Playing with dolls
- Bathtime
- At the pool
- Halloween
- Classroom – meet the teacher, friends, etc.
- Coloring
- Prom
- Special banquets and awards
- Concerts
- Recitals
- Airplane rides
- Reading a story
- Singing songs/making music
- Bike rides
- Games
- Camping
Last year Matthew made a best of Elias video. We now plan to do it every year. Check it out.
What can you make a video of today? Adeline and I are headed to Maryland to visit Matthew's family for the weekend, so we will make a video of them with Adeline.
What a great idea! I don’t have an i-phone, but I try to take video on my camera. I tend to forget that it’s an option though. Maybe if I stick your checklist on my fridge, I’ll remember. 🙂 Super cute video; super cute boy.
hey!
just watched a little of the “Best of” video. Can you please share how you did this? I would love to consolidate my videos and do the “best of” thing. thank you so much!!!
cheryl
we just used imovie
We take short videos of my daughter all the time but I find myself unsure of what to do with them! I can’t really scrapbook them. I don’t know how to store them and make them usable so that we will watch and appreciate them for years to come. It’s a dilemma I’ve been pondering a lot lately.
We store ours on an external hard drive.
I definitely agree wholeheartedly with this. Back in the day I was all about the photos but there is nothing like a video to take you back. My kids would much rather watch videos of themselves then my books of layouts. I wish I would have taken more.
I love the video you made and that it was funny! Him singing was my favorite part! Thank you for sharing. A yearly video summary is a cool idea!
Oh, that was awesome! I’ve been videotaping my now-8-month-old with plans to put some of the best snippets together in a short video that won’t take days to weed through. 🙂 This has given me new inspiration!
We’ll of course store it on a hard drive, but I’m also planning to burn a copy to a DVD that I can store in his baby book. The plan is to do this every year.