Your family deserves memory books as one-of-a-kind as your story. At Baby Notebook, we help families turn their memories into fully custom albums with ease. We’ve rounded up our favorite unique photo album ideas to create a keepsake that’s authentic to you.
In this blog post:
11+ Unique Photo Album Ideas
1. Fun Titles
You can make your album feel unique before you even open it. A creative title goes a long way in terms of setting the tone for your photo album. The Baby Notebook app makes it easy to edit titles on your album cover and throughout your book.
Discover fun photo album titles for every stage of your family’s life in this blog post.
2. Seasonal Highlights
One of our favorite unique photo album ideas is to include seasonal highlights. Baby Notebook’s Magic Years and Family Yearbooks are organized seasonally. At the beginning of each season, you can include a photo that captures the spirit of the season. This is the perfect place to highlight back-to-school photos, Halloween costumes, and cozy cuddles in your matching holiday pajamas.
3. Letter to Your Child
Each of Baby Notebook’s photo albums includes options for page layouts with text and photos or text only. You can write letters to your child, whether they’re waiting to be born or on their way to elementary school. It’s a great opportunity to preserve what you love about them now along with your hopes for their future. I love writing letters to my children on their birthdays each year.
4. Including Your Friends
Friends are an important part of your family’s life. Include a few pictures of them in your photo album. Alternatively, Baby Notebook lets you add pages. You can create a whole chapter in your memory book dedicated to the friendships that enrich your family’s life.
5. Your Favorite Landscapes
The best unique photo album ideas aren’t just about humans; they include the places that matter so much to your family. Do you have a favorite hiking trail or vacation destination? Include some landscape photos in your memory book. You never know how these places will change.
6. Baby’s Beginnings
Your baby’s story starts before they’re born. Whether they’re adopted or you give birth, your story is actually their first chapter. Our Baby Book includes three chapters before your baby’s birth or adoption – Pregnancy, Family, and Home. This is your opportunity to set the stage for your child’s story as you preserve it in your baby book.
Pro Tip: If you’ve adopted, the Pregnancy pages can be replaced to tell your story your way.
See how you can build a pregnancy memory book into your Baby Book in this blog post.
7. Family Interviews
Interviews are one of the best ways to preserve your child’s blooming personality. You can also add text pages to record stories from older family members. It’s a beautiful way to collect so many voices into one keepsake that you can share.
Want to see what this could look like with your littles? Read our interview questions for preschoolers.
8. Artistic Creations
Choose unique photo album ideas that help you preserve your family’s artwork. As kids enter preschool, they bring home mountains of art projects and crafts. Instead of developing elaborate storage systems, simply photograph your kids making or holding the art. That way you preserve the memory without having to hold onto every handprint turkey.
9. End of Year Reflections
At the end of the year, you can sit down with your family and wrap up the season with two reflection questions.
- What was your favorite highlight from the year?
- What are you looking forward to in the year ahead?
You can record everyone’s answers individually or put it all together in one reflection. It’s a great way to bond while creating space for gratitude and hope.
10. Vacation Photos
At Baby Notebook, we believe that unique photo album ideas should also make your life easier. That’s one reason that we created the Family Yearbook. This customizable family photo album allows you to incorporate every part of your family’s life into one cohesive memory book – vacations included.
11. Lifestyle Photography
There are so many styles of family photography. We love lifestyle photography. Instead of focusing on getting the perfect pose in ideal lighting, it documents life as it really is. Think candid, chaotic, laughter-filled pancake breakfasts and romps around the backyard.
Get our best tips for DIYing lifestyle family photography with your phone.
12. Family Recipes
Do you have a family recipe that you make every year? It could be a fun addition to a holiday spread in your memory book! In the Baby Notebook app, you can add a Photos + Text page. Along with the recipe, include photos of your family preparing and enjoying the dish.
Starting Your Creative Memory Keeping
Feeling inspired by these unique photo album ideas? Baby Notebook suite of memory books enables you to create albums truly tailored to your family’s story.
Download the Baby Notebook app to start your custom photo album today!