Share Family Recipes
Your nona’s (that's grandma in Italian) authentic
spaghetti recipe can live on when you share her special ingredients, along with stories about your memories with your own
grandparents by logging onto Skype while you prepare the meal and share memories of your own grandparents. Not only will
you be passing down your family history and customs etc. but it encourages your grandchildren to open up and share their experiences
with you.
Teach Your Grandkids Morse Code
Remember when you were young
and received secret messages from products advertised on television. Things haven’t changed. Kids today still love being
able to communicate in secret. If you don’t live close to your grandkids, it’s a fun way to communicate with them
via email or letters. Simply key in dots and dashes to make the code.
Bird-Watching and Bug
Identifying
Walk your neighborhood or a nearby park with a notebook, pen, binoculars, and a camera as
you search for insects and birds. Make notes and use books and pamphlets to identify them. Exchange photos online. We actually
purchased a little kit with tweezers, a cage, and magnifying glass they can use every time they visit us.
During
migratory seasons, this could be especially interesting. One more thing you can do from a long distance that is a
bonding activity and when your grandchildren spot a new bird and get excited about it the experience becomes exciting
for all of you.
STORY TIME...Help
your grandkids use their imagination by telling a story together. You start telling the story...after about thirty seconds,
it's their turn to tell the next thing that happens, and back and forth..
PHOTOGRAPHY Take the Grandkids on a Photo Shoot. It's a good chance to get outside and enjoy retirement
with the little guys. You can do this even in your own back yard if you can't get around like you used to do.
ROCK HOUNDING Kids, especially little boys love rocks and sticks. We've even hidden a few arrowheads
we bought at flea markets for them to find. I promise they will remember doing this activity with you.
BUILD A BOAT Together. Take a few pieces of wood and nail them together. It doesn't have to
be pretty. They will love doing this with you and taking it to the pool or a pond and floating it.
