How many years now have you been trying to get Uncle Bill to smile in those Thanksgiving photos? Sometimes, it seems like an impossible task to get your entire family together and smiling in a holiday photo. Well, fret no more.

With these three creative family photo ideas, you’ll definitely have your whole family smiling so you can capture some beautiful memories this Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Family Photo Ideas

Old-Meets-New Family Photo Album

Preserve memories and your old photos by turning your paper photo albums into digitized photo albums stored on DVDs.

1) Have everyone bring 3-5 old film photos to share around the table as well as the story behind each one.

2) Designate a “photo keeper,” and place the photos in a secure package.

3) Hop online to the ultimate photo scanning service site, FotoBridge, and select a package to digitize photos then send to FotoBridge.

4) Receive high quality DVDs of the photos and give the new gift along with original old photos to everyone in December! (Don’t forget to check the holiday deadlines!)

Family Recipe Book - on the Spot

This is a fun and unique way to remember your Thanksgiving Day. Preserve the memories of your family members and the delicious food and recipes shared with this creative photo book.

1) Designate a “Master Recipe Keeper.”

2) Have everyone send their favorite Thanksgiving recipe to the Recipe Keeper.

3) Snap a photo of each person or family who is tied to that recipe on Thanksgiving Day.

4) Upload the picture along with corresponding recipe to your favorite photo booklet site.

5) Create family recipe album online.

6) Give as gifts in December!

Thanksgiving Photo Booth Props

1) Create your own Thanksgiving props from construction paper or download free images, like from these fun props on the Dating Divas website.

2) Place props near and around all food and drink areas.

3) Review our 5 Tips to improve your iPhoneography.

4) Snap away!

Wonder what to do with your old photos and videos?

Have old photos sitting in a shoebox or album somewhere? When was the last time you viewed that winning touchdown from high school? Stuck with what to do with all those precious memories? 

Our photo scanning and digital image processing service is an extremely easy and secure solution to preserve memories.

Gather those photo gems up, ship them via secure shipper to FotoBridge and receive high quality DVDs of all those memories along with the originals back to your home in no time.