As the year begins, the class of 2025 has already started their senior year mementos. There are so many different ways to ensure that the senior year will be memorable. One way is by creating crafts, like, painting senior jeans with a group of friends, making a senior year keepsake box, a senior year scrapbook, and more!
With the year only just beginning, many students have already started these crafts. A group of girls got together and painted “senior 2025” jeans to wear for the senior sunrise together. Senior Emma Hall made pink themed senior jeans.
Hall talks about her jeans and friends.
“I invited my friends to come paint senior jeans with me before the senior sunrise. I used black paint to write ‘senior’ on the leg and used the rip in my jeans as the ‘i’. On the other side, I painted ‘2025’ in pink,” said Hall. “I then added a pink patchwork design on the bottom and polk-a-dots around.”
Hall and her friends all used different colors, but stuck to the same theme of “senior” down one side and “2025” down the other.
“It was a great experience and I am glad that I decided to get together with my friends and do this. It kinda feels surreal though, I can’t believe that I am finally the senior, making my final memories in high school,” said Hall.
These final moments and chances to make memories with friends are a mix of excitement and nostalgia for many seniors. It makes every experience for the Class of 2025 more meaningful. Graduation can not come any slower.
Another group of friends spent an afternoon creating senior jeans and keepsake boxes together. Senior Ella Culp made a senior memory box and featured the design on Studio Ghibli, which is a Japanese animation company.
Culp talks about her design and idea process.
“My friends and I all made our senior boxes different themes, for my design I chose Studio Ghibli. I used acrylic paint and beads that wrapped around the side,” Culp said, “I used a variety of colors, a little bit of everything, but lots of pinks, blues, and purples. At the end of designing them, we took polaroids together and put them in our boxes, as the first item.”
This may be the start of the end, although the year is just beginning, for seniors, high school is almost over. This group of friends continues to make meaningful memories on their journey.
“Making the memory boxes and painting the jeans with my friend group felt a little sad. I am happy that I got to make them, but at the same time, it shows how this is the end to such a long and impactful time of my life. I can’t wait to add more photos, notes, and other trinkets throughout the year,” said Culp.
Culp feels as though she may even miss high school and will definitely miss her friends. She expresses the bittersweet feeling.
“It’s basically like the end of an era for me. Not too far in the future, it will be my last time wearing these jeans as a senior and that feels so weird, but I’m also ready for it,” said Culp.
There is still plenty of time to make memory boxes, a scrapbook, paint senior jeans, or more. Most say the last year goes by the fastest and to cherish it so these small group crafts and time together can be very meaningful.
It may be bittersweet, but these small memories with friends are cherished for many seniors, as they mark the end of an unforgettable chapter in their lives.
