Creating Special Days With Your Grandchild

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Creating Special Days With Your Grandchild

by Anne Feenstra

Color Day
When our children were kindergarten-age, we would have some "Color Days" they loved it.

choose a color, like red
wear red clothes
make red party hats out of construction paper
make and eat red foods
look through magazines for red birds, red flowers, red vegetables
make a craft using red felts or paints (e.g. spatter painting)
look for red items in your home
look up some Bible verses where the color "red" is mentioned
look through red cellophane to see what the world around you would look like
ask the child what comes to mind when "red" is mentioned
do some face-painting with red

Alphabet Day
We’ve done this when the children were preschoolers through Grade 1.

Choose a letter, like "J" (maybe use the letter the child’s name begins with).

eat and make foods which begin with a "j"
do activities like a jigsaw puzzle, playing jacks, juggling, jumping, jogging, painting a "j" picture on the cheek
eating Alphabet soup and looking for "Js."

Rainbow Day

wear colors of the rainbow
paint rainbows on cheeks
blow colored bubbles
paint with all the colors of the rainbow
decorate cookies with colored sprinkles
make a rainbow with a garden hose

Crazy Day

wear mismatched clothing
style each other’s hair in weird ways
eat dessert before the main course
eat on the floor or with chairs turned sideways
do a crazy junk-art type activity
play a game like "Snakes and Ladders" backwards (go up the snakes & down the ladders)
read crazy stories or tall tales
tell crazy jokes
allow child to answer your telephone by saying, "good-bye"

Apple Day
Visit an apple farm - either in the spring when the trees are in blossom or in the fall when the fruit is ripe

buy 1 or 2 apples of every available kind, do a taste-testing session and record your results
make applesauce, dried apples, or any other apple dish
use apples as a table centrepiece
bob for apples
tie a string to the stem of an apple, attach the string to a clothesline or rope and let the child (with hands behind his back) try to bite out of the swaying apple
look up some apple trivia on the computer or have the child find the answers to certain questions
cut an apple in half horizontally, observe the star inside, then cover it with paint and press onto a piece of paper
ask the child if he knows any famous sayings about apples (e.g. An apple a day keeps the doctor away)
make a dried-apple doll or any other craft using dried apples or slices

Anne Feenstra has been married for 20 years and has home-schooled all four of her children. She has lead several bible study programs in her church and enjoys Creative Memories scrapbooking, cooking, entertaining and using their home for hospitality. Anne is to credit for the creative ideas in the "Effective Grandparenting" articles on this website.

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