• Let your children help decide what to snap, write and collect.
• Don’t forget to the record the sound. While tape recorders may be old fashioned, they take up limited space, enable children to record interviews, messages and travel songs and, most importantly, keep sticky fingers away from your valuable digital equipment.

• Begin working on your album as soon as you return, precious memories fade quicker than you may imagine.
• Hands on! Kids enjoy cutting out pictures, attaching postcards, and writing descriptions.
• The words and art should be their own. If your kids are not old enough to write, take notes of the things they liked and disliked or ask them to draw pictures.
• Help them plan their work. Get mementos ready and add supplies; glue, tape, scissors, colored pencils as well as stickers, cloth, ribbons, and frames.
• Manage expectations, particularly your own. If the album does not turn out the way you anticipated, create your own.

One last tip. When you're done, encourage your children to share your travel photo album with family and friends.