With so many memories and life experiences, one of the best hobbies to take up as a senior is scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is a method of preserving, presenting, and arranging personal and family history in the form of a book, box or card. This can be in physical form or you could try and master your computer skills by creating a digital scrapbook.

Scrapbooking as a hobby has been around since the 15th and 16th centuries. In its early stages, Scrapbooking was simply a collection contained in a book. These collections could include recipes, greeting cards, snippets of paper memorabilia, tickets, or playbills.

The primary purpose of scrapbooking is to preserve memories for future generations, but a secondary purpose often is to exercise your creativity as you display your memories in a scrapbook. One of the greatest things about taking this up as a hobby is that anyone can do it. Not only is scrapbooking a great hobby, but you can also create thoughtful personalized gifts for people. It doesn’t matter what your budget is, how much time you have available to dedicate to it, or even how artistic you are.

Besides being a hobby that can be undertaken up by anyone at any age, scrapbooking is also known to have a number of health advantages as well.

Lowers stress levels

Whenever you are stressed or anxious, consider scrapbooking as it will help you calm down. Just take a deep breath and engage in this creative process and the stress or anxiety will start disappearing. In fact, it has been proven that engaging in a creative hobby can help reduce anxiety.

It is a Form of Meditation

When creating a scrapbook page, your mind will be forced to focus on the task at hand. You will be thinking of how to fit photos onto one layout, the colour of the ink that would suit a certain stamp, how wide the strip of paper should be cut and so on. Therefore, your mind will be distracted hence giving you the much-needed reprieve from worries of life and everyday demands.

Scrapbooking Brain Workout

Trying to remember details such as how old you were during a certain trip or the name of the person you are seeing in a particular picture can be hard for your brain. Taking part in an activity that makes your brain work out will help keep your mind sharp.

Perfect Social Mechanism

You can choose to either do scrapbooking alone or with other people. If you need solitude, just lock yourself in a craft room for a few hours and do scrapbooking. You will come out of that room refreshed and ready to re-join the ranks of society.

If you need some human interaction, gather up your family members or friends and do scrapbooking together. It could also be a special bonding activity you could start with your grandchildren. Scrapbooking suits introverted and extroverted people.

Scrapbooking can keep your Heart Happy

This is one of the major reasons why you should consider scrapbooking. Scrapbooking is not just about paper, ink, and photos. It is something that gives you a source of pride and joy as you do it by yourself. Scrapbooking also brings friends and families closer together and makes a person feel a sense of belonging and make the heart happy.

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