Did you know that National Grandparents Day is the 1st Sunday after Labor Day? Are your kids thinking of fun ways to celebrate? Here are a few fun & creative ideas they can try. Some are for grandparents that live close by and some are for grandparents that live far away. No matter the distance between you – there are many fun ways to celebrate this fun day!
National Grandparents Day Celebration Ideas:
- Draw of color a special picture for your grandparents
- Spend a day in a park enjoying games, flying kites and a picnic lunch
- Create a card listing all of the things you love about your grandparents
- Spend an afternoon playing board games & cards
- Create a photo collage of fun memories
- Create drawings of your favorite memories together
- Make fun fingerprint art on a small canvas (check out Ed Emberley’s Complete Funprint Drawing Book
) - Make grandma some jewelry
- Take grandpa fishing
- Plant them some flowers in a flower pot that you painted yourself
- Create a movie theatre at home with a concession stand & invite them over for a special movie screening
- Create a special video message to email to them
- Put on a special puppet show for a live theatre production created for National Grandparents Day
- Host a tea party with iced tea and cookies
- Create a carnival of games for them in your backyard. Select a few special prizes that they can win (homemade crafts are perfect prizes!)
- Take some fun family portraits
- Mail them a special word search that you made just for them (here’s a free template to help you get started)
- Put on a special concert for them playing instruments at home or by creating your own fun instruments
- Bake them some cookies
- Paint them a special candy dish at your local pottery painting studio
)How will you be celebrating National Grandparents Day?
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Thanks you so much. What great ideas!
I had no idea that Grandparents Day was approaching. Thanks for the heads up and the great ideas!
I had no clue! But now that I know we’ll send cards out to the Grandparents!! 😀
My mom was always working, so my grandparent’s practically raised me! Thanks for the great ideas, and reminder I think I’ll bake them some cookies 🙂
Great ideas, thanks for sharing 🙂
Hi Cheryl! I love this post. Anything to do with Grandparents is so important, we all love them 🙂
My parents live in Nova Scotia and my daughter and I are in Ontario. So, giving our distance but desire to spend time together we have planned a family Google+ hangout for Sunday!
My Dad loves learning new things to do online, I love Google+ so it’s a win win.
Thanks again for posting this! I added you to my Google Reader 🙂