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Creative activities<br />
to plot your life<br />
Carve out some time to reflect on where your<br />
happiness lies, with these practical tasks<br />
Writing | Caroline Butterwick<br />
Illustrating | Rosan Magar<br />
Whether it’s to<br />
celebrate a<br />
milestone, or if<br />
you just want to<br />
take some time to reflect, there<br />
are lots of creative activities we<br />
can do to revisit our memories.<br />
The following are great ways to<br />
explore the things that we have<br />
experienced so far – they can<br />
help us plot our lives and assess<br />
where our happiness lies, and<br />
think about what we<br />
would like to<br />
take with us<br />
as we look<br />
ahead.<br />
Start a scrapbook<br />
or create a collage<br />
Do you have drawers full of<br />
yellowing ticket stubs from gigs<br />
you’ve enjoyed, or postcards<br />
collected over the years? A<br />
scrapbook is a wonderful way<br />
of making the most of these<br />
mementoes. Spend some time<br />
organising them into themes<br />
– maybe those that relate to a<br />
holiday, or which you associate with<br />
friendships – and then have fun<br />
pasting them onto the pages.<br />
There are great resources<br />
online on how to get started<br />
with scrapbooking if you need<br />
some inspiration, such as<br />
everything-about-scrapbooking.com.<br />
Alternatively, you could make a<br />
collage that captures a time in your<br />
life, perhaps incorporating other<br />
items such as newspaper cuttings<br />
that resonate with you. As you put<br />
together your scrapbook or collage,<br />
think about why these items matter<br />
to you, perhaps writing reflections<br />
about the things you’re including.<br />
Keep what you make safe so you<br />
can look back at it whenever you<br />
want a reminder of the people and<br />
places you care about.<br />
Craft a creative family tree<br />
Most of us are familiar with the<br />
idea of a family tree that traces<br />
our relatives, but how about<br />
crafting a creative family tree?<br />
This is a fun activity to do with<br />
a child, and can be a way of
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