Grow Your Family Tree With These Family Reunion Ideas
This entry was posted on 5/3/2007 1:08 PM and is filed under Tips.
For your family reunion/group event name recognitions, think about a Photo Button in a very handy visual size:For your family reunion/group event name recognitions, think about a Photo Button in a very handy visual size:
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Here are some questions for your family reunion/group to answer:
Who travelled the furthest for the family reunion; who has the most grandchildren; who has moved the most; who has a unique invention; who has travelled to any foreign countries; who has the most children; who has moved the least; and for fun: who has that great antique car looking good as new; What is that special car; whose profession is the most unique?
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For some other fun ideas:
http://amberskyline.com/treasuremaps/family-tree.htmlEveryone brings prizes, new, old, handmade, whatever, and after we have eaten, we have a wonderful time winning prizes and EVERYONE wins several times because we go for 3 wins and then blackout until EVERYONE gets a blackout and then start over again.
We also have door prizes (if someone brings something especially nice for bingo we may use it as one of our door prizes) and we have talented relatives who bring gifts from their special talents for prizes. We have guessing contests of how many pieces of candy is in the jar, etc.
Another especially fun contest was having everyone bring baby pictures for us to guess WHO they were. Everyone helps, everyone participates and everyone enjoys. (Maxine)
Something I did last year started a real bombshell ticking and thought you might enjoy it. I was looking for little items to put in "grab bags" for the kids to keep them busy during that time when it's hot and you'd rather just sit and visit. (like all day!) Well I was having a problem with the age group of about 8-13 and was thinking about what they liked. I got the idea of buying sports trading cards for them and letting them trade to get their favorite team.
Then the idea struck me, "why not teach them something about the family in the meantime?" So, I created "Ancestor Trading Cards". I chose the surname Hansen, starting with my husband's father, the father of all those involved in the reunion. Then I did a small pedigree of names of his ancestors for whom we have pictures, and mounted it on a colored paper. Then I created a card for each of those ancestors following the pattern of the sports cards, ie: picture of them in a nice frame, name and # running vertical along the edge, and Ancestor Trading Card across the top. Then on the back I put their name and a short history of them. Sometimes this only amounted to the "who, what and where" items because there wasn't a lot known but believe it or not, it was the Parents who really got into this.
We had a "knock down drag out" with them trying to trade their cards to get a complete set. Well needless to say, this year I ended up doing two more lines, this time on MY mother and father, each with their own pedigree chart on different colors. It was really a fun time and one daughter-in-law liked it so well that she and her mother did it for their reunion this year also. I scanned all the photos in and printed them right on the cards then the cards were laminated to make them sturdier. She and her mother ran the pictures off on a laser copier and attached them to the cards and that worked well to as after laminating they were permanent. It was really more popular than I ever anticipated it to be." (Barbara)
Several years ago, at our family reunion, we decided to compile a cookbook with all the family recipes. We have MANY good cooks in our family. We ended up with 137 pages and at that time sold them for $5.00 and sold 700 books. There are some who still want some and it will be decided this year whether to order more but will cost more to buy. (Faye)
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Ooooh! That Greyhound bus is headed our way. Sure hope it doesn't park where we are standing!
