October is finally here, leaves are changing and the cool, crisp air is whispering that summer is heading to the other side of the globe. What does this mean? Well, ghoulish goblins and an over-abundance of sweet sugary candy for one, but it also means something else: family History Month.
Family History Month is a great chance to spend a minute time exploring your roots or to encourage your kids to indubitably associate to history. Here are some great ways to celebrate the occasion:
6. Start planning that big family reunion! What great way to celebrate your inheritance than getting together with citizen you haven't seen in ages, and maybe even some cousins you've never met. You can hire an event planner, put together a family communal network on Ning, or just start contacting relatives you know to get as many addresses together as inherent so you can put together a great reunion next summer!
5. Encourage your kids to come to be a pen-pal with a cousin or second-cousin. What a cool way to learn about your family!
4. Make a family tree. You can account for the connection in the middle of your kid and their related-pen-pal, and help them understand where they fit into a tree using a kid-friendly family tree template. For smaller children you can use pictures of relatives and help them manufacture them into the tree.
3. Make a scrapbook. account for to kids that someday, their story will be history to someone. They can help tell their story by manufacture scrapbooks or retention journals that tell the world about what they did while their October.
2. Put together a time capsule and bury it in the back yard. Pick out some things that will help person frame out what your kids were like, maybe that spelling test they got an A on, or a photo of the family at Christmas time, and put it in a waterproof box (or just a merge of sealed Ziploc freezer bags and a Tupperware box with some weatherproof duct tape around the edges) and lower it down into the yard. Have the kids make a treasure map and some instructions explaining when the capsule should be dug up for a future generation.
1. Do you already know something about your family history? Maybe an ancestor went to California for the gold rush, or your family immigrated from Ireland while the potato famine? merge that into an performance for a day. Find the nearest "Pan for Gemstones"location so they can get the experience, or go to the library and find a book about Irish folklore so they can associate to the stories kids from their family might have heard growing up in Ireland.
Ghost towns, historic sites, or even visiting family grave sites and manufacture rubbings are all great ways to help your children eye the joys of history. If you don't know much about your family's roots, you may reconsider hiring person to help you find out more, or starting the journey to discovering your inheritance on your own. Whatever you do, find some way to enjoy this extra time of year and celebrate family History Month with your children.
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