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I hope everyone had a great Easter and Passover.
For today’s post – I am focusing on KIDS and how they can dive into their family tree and learn about how the family is connected. I have 4 resources to share with you – 2 of which are FREE! – that will be great for your kids who are budding family historians.
Family Tree Template
It is easy to create a family tree on Canva (free website). Or if you’d like an easy FREE printable, download this generic family tree starter template that the kids can use to fill in themselves and their cousins.
Family Tree Decal
How about a family tree decal for your living room wall or nursery room wall? This beautiful one includes quotes and spaces for 5″x7″ photographs!
Play Detective!
While stuck at home during the Covid-19 Lockdown, now is a perfect time to send the kids on a scavenger hunt throughout the house and attic for family treasures.
Interview Grandma
One of my family’s best resources is a book my great-grandmother wrote and passed down to her grandchildren. She included family names, dates and family stories. And now you too can have your child interview grandma! Courtney Littler has created this adorable spiral-bound book for the kids to interview Grandma. It’s so cute, I wish I had reason to use one myself.
Sharing is Caring
This is a fascinating subject that s many of us would love to explore. I have a kit I got at an event and should sit and read it.
I love these fun ways for kids to connect with family history. I cant wait to have kids to have keepsakes like these and show them to my kids.
I use Canva a lot. I’ll definitely share the Family Tree Template to my niece and nephews. They”ll enjoy it.
I love these ideas, especially encouraging kids to develop interviewing skills and talk to their grandparents!
My daughter was just talking to me about our family history. I am so glad to hear that there are resources out there!
Oh wow what a great idea and a fab idea to bring a family together and keep kids busy too x
These are exactly the types of activities I have always loved to do as a child! Inspiring!
I love these ideas and plan to use them with my 8 year old son. Especially the family tree one. I am a great fan of Canva!
I love this and would do this with my kids when they are old enough to understand.
I think I’m going to do this with my kids. What a great way to get to know the family even better. I’m going to have my kids interview their grandparents.
This is great. I think getting the kids in on family tree research is an excellent way to help them feel more connected to the family they have and the family they didn’t know they had.
These are some great resources for learning about family history. I love hearing family history from my dad.
Be sure to have your dad write down or record his histories so you can pass them down to the kids!
These are some really good tips and resources that I find so useful. I can really put them to good use.
excellent! I am so glad they were helpful for you, Lavern!
Playing detective sounds fun and glad to know there are many things to do with our kids at home during the outbreak! Thanks a lot for sharing – Knycx journeying
My pleasure. I hope you are doing well during these stay at home orders.
I tried downloading Family Tree the other day because of your blog. Im gonna play with it tonight. Let’s see if I find something out. 🙂 Thank you for sharing!
awesome. I love that Family Tree is free! Don’t you? I hope it is useful and helpful for you!!
These are some great ideas to dig into the family tree. I just lost my Dad 2 weeks ago, so I never took the opportunity to dig into my family tree, but the grandma question book is something that everybody should do.
oh Wendy. I am so very sorry about your loss. I hope you were able to be with him to the end.
It is a great idea to be able to teach kids about their ancestors. It certainly boost their creativity. In addition, it can also create great bonding among each family member.
yes to all those! i hope you have a chance during the stay at home orders to bond closer with the family.
Those are all great ideas for getting kids excited about family history. I like the scavenger hunt idea!
thanks Matt. I had fun putting together the scavenger hunt.
I love this! I was just talking to my kids about their ancestry. I would love to show them these resources.
that’s so awesome and timely!! thanks heather. i hope you guys enjoy the scavenger hunt and other suggestions.
I don’t know why I never realized the importance of our kids knowing family history. This is great!
thanks Sandra. I especially recommend a grandparent journal since that was so wonderful for my family as we do our own research.
I bet kids would love doing these projects. A great way to connect them to their family history. Weekends In Maine
i’m so glad you agree, Karen. Thanks so much! I hope you and your kids are able to enjoy these projects and more.