$9.99
60th birthday photo collage: sixty years, every one in the picture
Sixty years is a lot of life to fit in one frame, and that's exactly the point. Childhood in faded colour, the wedding, the babies who are now parents themselves, the grandchildren, the retirement plans finally coming true. A 60th birthday photo collage cut to the number 60 holds up to 1,075 photos on a 60 × 40″ print, so nobody in the family has to be left out, and every chapter gets its place.
60 years, 600 photos
Ten photos for every year makes 600. On a 60 × 40″ landscape print each one comes out about an inch across, so from across the room it's sixty years at a glance, and up close every face is there to find. Prefer bigger photos? Around 140 on the same print come out a little over two inches each.
What to put in it
- The oldest photos you can find: photograph the prints by a window
- Their parents and siblings, the family they came from
- The wedding and the early married years
- Each child, and each grandchild, at every age
- Friends of forty years and the trips they took together
- Career highs, and the first photos of retirement
Words for under the number
- Happy Birthday Lisa
- Sixty years of love
- Six decades, one wonderful you
- Our rock for sixty years
- Sixty and still the life of the party
From party centrepiece to family heirloom
On the day, it's the thing everybody gathers round. Afterwards it becomes the photo wall the grandchildren grow up looking at, pointing out their parents as babies and asking who everyone is. Few gifts get looked at that often for that long.
Questions
Can the grandchildren help?
They make the best helpers. Older grandchildren can scan old albums with a phone and fill the template in Canva; little ones can pick their favourite photos of Grandma or Grandpa and choose the words.
Do you print it for me?
No, and that keeps it simple and affordable. You download a print-ready PDF from Canva and print it at any photo or print shop. Our printing guide compares where to print a big collage without overpaying.
What do I get?
A Canva template with the 60 already cut and every photo space placed, for $9.99. It downloads instantly; you open it in a free Canva account, drop in your photos, type your words and print it anywhere.