All the DAZE Productions: Family DAZE

Activity Ideas:
Spoon Family
Materials: plastic spoons, cotton balls, a few pipe cleaners, felt pens, construction and tissue paper,
scissors and glue.
Directions: Glue the cotton balls on the spoon for hair and/or a beard. Twist pipe
cleaners around neck of spoon to form arms. Use felt pens to draw on facial features. Finally, create
clothing from paper, attaching with yarn or string.

Magazine Families
Materials: paper plates, markers, magazines, glue, scissors
Directions: Help each child write "My Family" on plate. Search through magazines to find pictures of
faces resembling those of family members. Children tear or cut out pictures and glue them onto paper
plates.

Family Home
Materials: milk carton, construction paper, Popsicle sticks/tongue depressors
Directions: Cut a milk carton in half and cover it with construction paper. Decorate with construction
paper windows, doors, bricks or trees to resemble the child's house. Have the children draw the
members of their families and include pets on tongue depressors and place them into the house. When
finished the children form a town and take their "family members" to visit other families.

Family Portrait
Materials: paper (cut in shape of a house), people shaped cookie cutters or stamps, paint
Directions: Dip cookie cutters that are in the shape of a mother, father, child, dog, cat or fish in paint on
to paper.

Family Hand Prints
Materials: paper, crayons
Directions: Have each child's family trace their hands on paper. Each family member can decorate their
hand any way they wish. Each child can then make a hand print collage of their family.

Family Tree
Materials: construction paper (cut into tree shape), apple shaped sponges, paint
Directions: Give each child a tree shape drawn on a piece of paper and sponges cut into apple shapes
and have them paint the apples onto the tree to represent
each family member. Write in each family member's name on the apples.

Storytelling
Discuss what the word family means. Identify different family members. Talk about family structures.
Besides parents and siblings, talk about other relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents).
Discuss how families work together and share responsibilities (cleaning the house; preparing meals;
picking up toys). Talk about how families have leisure time activities (biking, walking, playing, or
shopping). Have each child name the members of their family. Encourage children to share
photographs from home. Have children write or draw their ideas on construction paper. Allow each child
an opportunity to tell their story with their peers.

My Family
Take the word “Family” and put it in a vertical print. Have the children think of a positive word for each
letter. For example: F---Fantastic, A---Awesome, etc.

Grandmas and Grandpas
Grandmas and Grandpas are everything nice.
Like presents and candy and raspberry ice.
And chocolate fudge sundaes, with cherries on top.
And popcorn and peanuts and grape soda pop.
In winter or summer, in rain or in sun,
Grandmas and Grandpas are wonderful fun!

I Love My Family
(Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)
I love my family,
I love my family.
I love them and they love me
I love my family.

Family DAZE