🎒 How to Make a Travel Time Capsule with Your Kids

Sherrie A
Apr 18
2 min read

Estimated Reading Time: 4 min

✈️ Turn Your Trip into a Treasure

Want to make family trips last longer than a souvenir? Try building a travel time capsule with your kids! It’s a fun way to reflect, get creative, and lock in memories from your adventures—whether it’s a weekend at grandma’s or a 10-day road trip

🛠️ Supplies You’ll Need

📦 Item	✅ Packed
Small box, shoebox, or jar	☐
Tape, glue, scissors	☐
Printed photos or postcards	☐
Ticket stubs, wristbands, napkins	☐
Mini journal or notebook pages	☐
Map with route drawn in crayon	☐
A note to future you	☐

💡 Ideas for What to Include

📸 A photo of the whole family
✍️ A note from each person: "My favorite part of the trip was..."
🍴 A snack wrapper from somewhere unique
🧭 A brochure or trail map from a hike
🎫 Theme park wristbands, museum stubs, boarding passes
🗺️ A page with “3 things we’d do next time”

📆 When to Open It

On the 1-year anniversary of your trip
On your next family vacation
On New Year’s Eve
On someone’s birthday

🎉 Make a tradition out of it!

🧁 Final Thoughts

A travel time capsule doesn’t take much time—but it creates a powerful, personalized keepsake. It’s like bottling up a vacation and saving it for later smiles.

📎 Want a printable Travel Time Capsule Tracker to help your kids build their own? Grab it below!

✨ Travel Time Capsule Card

✏️ What’s in My Travel Time Capsule	✅ Done
Photo of me from the trip	☐
Something I collected (napkin, ticket, shell...)	☐
My favorite food I ate	☐
My favorite place we visited	☐
What made me laugh the most	☐
A drawing of something I saw	☐
One thing I’d do differently next time	☐