Worth 10 points on a Project or 2 missing hw assignments!
The New Year is a big deal! If you create a time capsule, when you're older you'll be able to look back and remember where you were, what you were doing and what you were like as a kid. Let's work together to make a time capsule to open in the future, to record all of the important stuff going on right now!
Let's start! First, get a clean coffee can and some waterproof tape. That's going to be your capsule! Why? You need a durable container that you can bury or stow away in the attic (something that mice and other animals - or perhaps little brothers and sisters - can't get into easily.) Then, you have to decide what to put in it. It should be stuff that means a lot to you right now, and stuff you might think is funny or cool when you open the time capsule up ten years from now!
Here are some ideas:
Photographs (put them in a plastic baggie)
Ticket stubs from your fave movie
A cd of your fave songs
A letter to yourself
A list of your best friends
Collage of cool stuff
Pics of your room
Pages from magazines
Newspaper articles
A letter from a friend to the future you
A videotape of you and your friends
A paragraph about what you want to be
Anything else you can think of (but remember, it has to last 10 years!)
Then, bury your time capsule in the back yard, or hide it somewhere in your basement or attic, and make a map with instructions about how to find it! Keep a copy of the map, and give one to your parents for safe-keeping. Now here's the deal: You can't open this thing for 10 years! No matter how much you want to. (Well, I guess you can....) I bet when you open it, you'll be pretty surprised about everything you forgot about!