Ideas for a memory board for a funeral?

Question

my grandmother passed away and we are having a memorial for her over memorial day. my mother asked me to put together a memory board (i rock at crafts) out of all the pictures we found at my grandmothers place from her childhood through today....i have some ideas but i dont want to do anything too tacky/crafty...but i still want it to be 'fun' to look at. a lot of my family that we havent seen in years are coming and are in the pictures so i do not want to offend them with a cutesy look. i am open to any ideas whatsoever and love tons of work, so every idea is welcome! please help!

Answer 1

When my grandma died we put together a kind of free verse poem that had individual memories from everyone we could get to in a reasonable amount of time.  It didn't rhyme, but I rewrote each memory so it kind of had a rhythm to it.  It was mostly our quick impressions.  You could do something like that with just a few quick words around your memory board.

For instance, my grandma liked the smell of lilacs so one line of our poem was just "the scent of lilacs".  Another was her favorite threat to us kids which was "I'll go get the yardstick..."  Another was just "snapping beans on the back porch" and "flowers in the black kettle".

Little captions like that would make people smile and reminisce if you included them on your memory board.

I'm sorry for your loss, but it sounds like you have some wonderful memories.  Good luck with your board.

Answer 2

We did the same thing for my grandfather.  I just put the pictures over top blue and white sheets of paper (to make it look like they each had a border) and stuck them onto one of those big science project 3-section boards.  I used photo tape to put the pictures on the paper (so I could remove them later without damaging them) and then tacked the frames onto the board with thumb tacks.  We ended up using 2 boards since we had so many pictures.  Everyone ended up loving it.  It was very simple.  Just 2 shades of blue paper, white paper, and some cloud paper.  Nothing too scrapbooky - that would have been tacky to start cutting shapes into everything.  So, keep it simple.  Remember that the focus of the boards are the photos of your grandmother, not the fringe.

Answer 3

Make sure you include ALL the family. Just not one side or one kid..everyone. Include pictures throughout the years of her..maybe like a time line each step of the way adding in more family. Put to gether a home video of her with he family and let it play quietly in the background. Incorperate things she did or made. Keep it personal and about her.Sorry to hear of your lose. Good luck

Answer 4

I am sure whatever you do will be great... It is very thoughtful and probably no one else would be able to do it as well as you.

This is a nice tribute for your Granny....