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Here is a project that your family can do together:

Materials needed:

roll of butcher paper.

tape

scissors

pencil and pen/marker

index cards or post-its

pictures of family members

a wall with plenty of space

This will look much the same as in a baby book, on a much larger scale. You draw a huge tree using sections of butcher paper. Each family member will need his/her own branch, branching off from that families main branch. Tape the tree/branches to the wall. above or to the side of one side of the tree, tape an index card or post-it with Dad's family name. Do the same for Mom's family name on the other side.

Put pictures of the children in your home going up the trunk.

The first branches on either side are for Mom and Dad, then of each of their parents, and so on.

If you want to put more into this project, you can do all of the siblings of each parent and so on.

Tape pictures to the wall at the appropriate spot, and under the pictures you will put the persons name (use index cards or post-it.

* Note that post-its will not stay put long without tape.

** Before you hang each picture, you should learn new things about the person in it, or about the time in which they lived. You can add these facts to the index cards.