We’re getting ready to open our time capsule in a few weeks (we buried it in Jan. of ’06) and I thought your readers would enjoy doing it also.

Items to Put in a Time Capsule

We decorated a plastic quart size container and each of my three kids put in:

1. a photograph of themselves taken last month.
2. a self portrait using colored pencils.
3. a hand tracing.
4. a list of their favorites (food, snack, drink, movie, playstation game, computer game and Christmas gift).
5. what job they would like to have when they get older.
6. something that they would like to learn about or learn to do in 2006.
7. a receipt from food shopping that shows prices of foods we buy.
8. a prediction about the price of one of the items on the receipt.
10. a list of their New Year resolutions.

My daughter made a map of where we buried it and we’ll be digging it up on 1/1/07. They definitely want to do it again.