Make a postcard

Letters to your children, for the milestones still to come

Write to the child they are today for the person they will become: a first day of school, a graduation, an eighteenth birthday. Add a photograph from now, and choose the date it should arrive.

Make a postcard

$7 each, printing and postage included.

A parent writing a letter at a sunlit desk beside a child’s drawing and a wooden toy train

Things you might write

  • What they are like at this age, in the small details you do not want to forget.
  • What you hope for them on the day this postcard arrives.
  • A piece of advice you wish someone had given you.
  • How proud you already are.

How it works

  1. Add your photographs

    Choose the pictures that belong on the front of your postcard.

  2. Write your message

    Say what you want them to read, then see the postcard as they will.

  3. Choose the date

    Tell us who it is for, where it goes and the day it should be mailed.

Begin with a photograph and a few lines, and give them something to keep. Each postcard is $7, printing and postage included.

Start your postcard

Also: birthday surprises, anniversary messages, family time capsules, letters to your future self, 18th birthday letters, graduation postcards, first day of school letters, mother’s day postcards, father’s day postcards, send to someone you love. Not sure what to say? Read our guide to what to write. Questions? Read the frequently asked questions.