5 Amazing Ways to Display Your Travel Photos

You’ve gone on vacation and now have 3675 more cute photos of your kiddo on your phone. But what happens to those photos now? If you don’t do something with them, those fun memories will stay relegated to the deep recesses of your cell phone storage. Until one day, when one might be lucky enough to pop up on your home feed.

To make sure those memories get their time to shine as they deserve (you did survive a trip with your child to earn those photos, after all!), here are 5 amazing and creative ways to display your travel photos. 

1. Gallery Wall

Print those photos out! Creating a gallery wall allows you to see your photos every day AND decorate your blank walls. You can create photo collages on sites like Shutterfly, or just print out your favorite photo of the trip. Your gallery wall can become a tribute celebrating your family travel adventures. And if you want to leave the design to the experts, photo printing websites like Artifact Uprising can also design a gallery wall for you, complete with frames.

2. Photo Book

A photo book of your trip can double as a lovely coffee table book. Shutterfly sometimes offers promo codes for free photo books, and even has a design service that can design the photo book for you. If you want a book with thicker pages your little one can enjoy, you can make customized board books using Artifact Uprising (click the link for $50 off your first purchase!).

3. Mini Movie

With all the apps now, it is easier than ever to make a little movie of your travel adventures to watch again and again. (Is my toddler the only one that loves to watch the same home videos over and over??) One easy option is the “1 Second Everyday” app, which helps you compile a video montage of every day of your trip, one second at a time. (I also used the 1 Second Everyday app to chronicle every day of my baby’s first year of life!) There is a free version and a pro version of the 1 Second Everyday app; I found the free version just fine for my amateur video needs. Another option is to create an Instagram reel, which can be saved to your photos as well.

4. Digital Photo Frame or Digital TV Screensaver

Digital photo frames ensure that all of your photos get their moment to shine because they are basically a photo slideshow on repeat in a frame. Another way to display your travel photos on a slideshow is to use your TV as your digital frame. Fire TV, Chromecast TV, Roku TV, and Apple TV all have options for setting a screensaver.

5. Holiday Card

Rather than using the typical holiday pajama family photo (no shade! I love a good holiday PJ!) as your holiday card photo, why not use your travel photos on your holiday card to give a recap of your family’s year? A friend sent out holiday cards with a year in review, and I had to steal the idea! Because it’s hard to keep up with friends on the regular when you’re in the trenches of raising little ones, I loved learning what their family was up to that year through their holiday card. And seeing their family travel photos on the holiday card was a ray of sunshine during the winter months! Feel free to throw in that adorable matching holiday PJ photo in the mix for that holiday spirit.

Itching to go on a trip now to take some gorgeous new travel photos and put these ideas to use? Check out my toddler-friendly Big Island itinerary for the most stunning and calm baby beaches on the Big Island!