September 7 – Grandparents Day

Grandparent’s Day is Today!

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HOW TO CELEBRATE GRANDPARENTS DAY

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Grandparents Day is a special occasion that allows us to celebrate the wonderful presence our grandparents bring to our lives. These remarkable individuals have lived through countless historical moments, witnessed our own childhoods, and continue to offer us their unwavering love and support.

Whether it’s sharing their wisdom, listening to our stories, or spoiling us with treats, grandparents have an irreplaceable presence in our lives. A day dedicated to honoring the sacrifice and dedication of grandparents is a wonderful opportunity to show our appreciation by spending time with them, making new memories, and cherishing the ones we have already made. On Grandparents Day, let’s take a moment to appreciate the unique bond we share with our grandparents, and the important role they play in our lives.

HISTORY OF GRANDPARENTS DAY

Grandparents Day was first established in 1978 by President Jimmy Carter after it was brought to his attention by Marian McQuade, a West Virginia housewife. McQuade envisioned a day where people across the United States would recognize and cherish the invaluable contributions made by grandparents in our society.

Since then, Grandparents Day has been celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day every year, serving as a reminder to pause and express gratitude for the sacrifices and guidance our grandparents have provided. It’s a day filled with love, laughter, and precious memories that we will always treasure.

100 WAYS TO CELEBRATE GRANDPARENT’S DAY

Host a Family Storytelling Session: Invite grandparents to share their favorite stories or memories from their childhood with family members.
Create a Family Recipe Book: Collect family recipes from grandparents and other relatives to compile a recipe book that can be cherished by all.
Plan a Picnic in the Park: Organize a picnic with favorite foods, giving grandparents a relaxing day outdoors with family.
Organize a Family Game Day: Play board games, card games, or outdoor games that grandparents enjoy, creating friendly competition and bonding time.
Visit a Museum Together: Take a trip to a local museum, especially one that reflects the grandparents’ interests, like history or art.
Make a Scrapbook: Gather photos, letters, and mementos to create a family scrapbook with grandparents, capturing precious memories.
Record Family Interviews: Set up a camera or phone to record grandparents talking about their lives, creating a family history video.
Bake Cookies Together: Spend time baking family-favorite cookies or treats with grandparents, allowing for sweet conversations and memories.
Plan a Family Movie Marathon: Watch classic movies that grandparents love or family movies everyone can enjoy together.
Take a Nature Walk: Go for a walk in a nearby park or nature reserve, appreciating the outdoors and sharing stories along the way.
Host a DIY Craft Day: Set up a crafting area where grandparents and grandkids can create artwork or handmade gifts for each other.
Create a Family Tree: Work together to build a family tree, discussing relatives and family history while making connections across generations.
Organize a Backyard Barbecue: Host a barbecue with everyone’s favorite foods, creating a casual atmosphere for family bonding.
Plant a Family Garden: Spend the day planting flowers, herbs, or vegetables as a family, making it a project that can grow over time.
Read Together: Choose a book to read aloud together, with grandparents sharing their favorite childhood stories or classics.
Set Up a Puzzle Challenge: Complete a puzzle as a family, choosing one that reflects grandparents’ interests, like a landscape or historical scene.
Create Handmade Cards: Make cards together to celebrate Grandparents Day, letting grandchildren add personal messages and drawings.
Play Bingo: Organize a fun bingo game with small prizes, allowing everyone to enjoy a lighthearted competition.
Decorate a Memory Box: Design a box to store keepsakes, family photos, and mementos that grandparents can keep and cherish.
Have a Dance Party: Play music from the grandparents’ favorite era and have a dance party, celebrating their love of music.
Cook a Family Meal Together: Prepare a family meal with recipes passed down from grandparents, making cooking a shared experience.
Go on a Family Photo Walk: Take a walk together and snap photos of beautiful scenes, creating a shared memory of the day.
Attend a Community Event: Look for local events, like fairs or festivals, where the family can spend time together exploring and having fun.
Share a DIY Family Time Capsule: Assemble a time capsule with notes, small mementos, and family photos to be opened in the future.
Host a Talent Show: Encourage family members to share talents like singing, dancing, or telling jokes, with grandparents as the guests of honor.
Generational Trivia Game: Create a trivia game with questions about different decades, allowing grandparents to share knowledge and memories.
Memory Match with Family Photos: Use family photos to create a memory match game, giving everyone a chance to learn more about their relatives.
Bingo with Family Facts: Play bingo with cards featuring fun family facts or anecdotes about each person playing.
Charades with Family Stories: Act out funny or memorable family stories in a game of charades for everyone to guess.
Name That Tune (Generational Edition): Play popular songs from different eras and have players guess the song titles or artists.
Story Dice: Roll dice with prompts (like “vacation,” “school,” “holiday”) and have grandparents tell a story related to the prompt.
Two Truths and a Lie: Play a game where family members, including grandparents, share two truths and one lie for others to guess.
Scavenger Hunt with Family Heirlooms: Create a scavenger hunt using family heirlooms or items with sentimental value, explaining each item’s history.
Family Pictionary: Draw family-related words or phrases, like “family vacation” or “favorite pet,” for others to guess.
Guess the Year: Show photos or play videos, and have family members guess the year they were taken or filmed.
Generational Board Games: Play classic board games that grandparents loved, like Monopoly, Scrabble, or checkers.
Jigsaw Puzzle Race: Set up a puzzle race, where teams compete to finish puzzles featuring family photos or favorite places.
Telephone Game with Family Stories: Start a story based on a family memory and pass it around in a whisper, revealing the final version.
Family Tree Quiz: Quiz family members on relatives’ names and relationships to help everyone learn about their family tree.
Family Feud Game: Play a family edition of Family Feud, with questions based on family preferences, traditions, or funny moments.
Craft Bingo: Create bingo cards with different DIY crafts, and everyone checks off the crafts they complete with grandparents.
20 Questions About Childhood: Play 20 questions where family members ask grandparents about their childhood memories and experiences.
Pass the Parcel with Keepsakes: Wrap up small keepsakes or family-related prizes and play pass the parcel, with each layer revealing a memory or prize.
Photo Album Guessing Game: Flip through family photo albums and guess details about each photo, like the year or location.
Hot Potato with Family Memories: Pass a ball around in a circle, and when the music stops, the person holding the ball shares a memory.
Grandparent Trivia: Have grandparents write down fun facts about themselves, then quiz the family to see who knows them best.
Generational Bingo: Create bingo cards with popular trends, events, and hobbies from each generation, and play with the whole family.
Name That Artifact: Show vintage items from around the house, and let family members guess what they were used for.
Family Story Charades: Act out family stories in charades format, letting everyone guess the story or moment being portrayed.
Egg-and-Spoon Relay Race: Have a relay race with grandparents and grandkids balancing eggs on spoons for a fun, lighthearted challenge.
Family Recipe Book: Compile favorite family recipes, hand-written or printed, and bind them together into a homemade recipe book for grandparents.
Handprint Family Tree: Create a family tree using painted handprints from each family member, labeling each branch with names.
Memory Jar: Fill a jar with small notes sharing favorite memories with grandparents, decorated with ribbons and stickers.
Photo Coasters: Make coasters by sealing family photos onto tiles with mod podge, creating a useful, sentimental gift.
Personalized Apron: Decorate an apron with fabric paint or markers, adding grandkids’ names or handprints for a kitchen keepsake.
Family Photo Garland: Print family photos and attach them to a string with clothespins to create a photo garland for decoration.
Story Quilt Squares: Decorate fabric squares with family members’ names or symbols, later sewn together to create a family quilt.
Pressed Flower Bookmark: Use pressed flowers and laminate them into bookmarks, perfect for grandparents who love reading.
Grandkids’ Art Gallery Frame: Design a frame that holds grandkids’ artwork, allowing grandparents to display rotating creations.
Decorated Flower Pot: Paint flower pots with messages like “Best Grandma” or “Grandpa’s Garden” for personalized gardening decor.
DIY Puzzle with Family Photo: Print a family photo, cut it into puzzle pieces, and let grandparents put it together as a fun keepsake.
Fingerprint Keychain: Use polymer clay to create keychains, pressing each grandkid’s fingerprint into the clay and baking to set.
Family Handprint Art: Layer handprints from smallest to largest on a canvas, each in a different color, creating a multigenerational art piece.
Custom Candle Holder: Decorate a glass candle holder with glass paint or decoupage, adding symbols or initials for personalization.
Homemade Lavender Sachets: Sew small fabric sachets, fill with dried lavender, and add labels for a relaxing gift for grandparents.
Grandkids’ Handwritten Letter Book: Collect letters from each grandchild, bind them together, and create a cherished book of letters.
Family Memory Collage: Create a collage on canvas with photos, ticket stubs, and notes, capturing favorite family memories.
Decorative Plate with Family Quotes: Use porcelain markers to decorate a plate with family quotes or sayings grandparents love.
Family Roots Shadow Box: Place a family tree inside a shadow box, including small items like acorns, leaves, or keepsakes from family events.
Personalized Calendar: Design a custom calendar featuring family photos and special dates, like birthdays and anniversaries.
DIY Mason Jar Vase: Paint a mason jar in soft colors, add a ribbon, and personalize it with the names of each grandchild.
Picture Frame with Seashells or Buttons: Decorate a frame with shells or buttons, then add a favorite family photo for a unique touch.
Home Recipe Spice Jars: Create small spice jars with favorite family spice blends or baking ingredients, labeled and ready to use.
Embroidered Handkerchief: Embroider initials or a small design on handkerchiefs for a classic, handmade gift for grandparents.
Time Capsule: Make a small family time capsule with notes, small objects, and photos, to be opened on a future Grandparents Day.
Family Recipe Apple Pie: Bake an apple pie using a beloved family recipe, honoring the flavors grandparents enjoy.
Homemade Jam with Biscuits: Make fresh fruit jam and serve it with warm biscuits, celebrating the classic taste of homemade preserves.
Personalized Cupcakes: Decorate cupcakes with grandparents’ names or favorite colors, using icing and sprinkles for a personal touch.
Grandma’s Favorite Casserole: Prepare a classic casserole dish that grandparents love, perfect for a comforting family meal.
Custom Cookie Platter: Bake a variety of cookies in flavors grandparents enjoy, arranging them on a decorated platter.
Memory Lane Meatloaf: Make a traditional meatloaf recipe that reminds everyone of family dinners from the past.
Handmade Ravioli: Create homemade ravioli filled with cheese, spinach, or meat, inspired by grandparents’ favorite pasta dishes.
Tea Sandwiches and Scones: Prepare a selection of tea sandwiches and scones for a cozy afternoon tea with grandparents.
Decorated Sugar Cookies: Bake and decorate sugar cookies in shapes or colors representing family members or traditions.
Fruit Salad with Honey Dressing: Make a fresh fruit salad with a honey-lime dressing, adding a light and refreshing option for everyone.
Homemade Pot Roast: Slow-cook a pot roast with vegetables, reminiscent of classic family Sunday dinners.
Customized Pancake Breakfast: Prepare pancakes with various toppings and syrups, allowing each grandparent to create their favorite stack.
Chocolate Fondue with Family Favorites: Set up a fondue station with chocolate and fruits, marshmallows, and treats for dipping.
Personalized Sandwich Bar: Create a sandwich bar with meats, cheeses, and toppings, letting everyone customize their own sandwich.
Classic Chicken Pot Pie: Make a homemade chicken pot pie filled with vegetables and creamy sauce, perfect for a comforting meal.
Fresh Berry Parfait: Layer yogurt, fresh berries, and granola to create a colorful, healthy parfait for breakfast or dessert.
Root Beer Floats: Serve old-fashioned root beer floats with vanilla ice cream, adding a nostalgic treat to the celebration.
Stuffed Bell Peppers: Prepare stuffed bell peppers filled with rice, meat, and vegetables, a hearty dish often enjoyed by grandparents.
Family Recipe Chili: Cook a pot of family-favorite chili, complete with toppings like cheese, onions, and cornbread.
Mini Cheesecakes with Berry Topping: Make individual cheesecakes topped with fresh berries, offering a sweet and elegant dessert.
Baked Mac and Cheese: Prepare a creamy, baked mac and cheese with a crunchy topping, perfect for a shared comfort food experience.
Homemade Ice Cream Sundae Bar: Set up an ice cream sundae bar with toppings like chocolate chips, whipped cream, and cherries.
Veggie and Cheese Platter: Arrange a platter with fresh veggies, cheeses, and crackers for a light snack everyone can enjoy together.
Spaghetti and Meatballs: Cook a spaghetti and meatball dish that reminds grandparents of family dinners, topped with fresh Parmesan.
Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting: Bake a classic carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, a favorite for many grandparents.