elnan

Have you considered Ancestor Charts or Family Group Sheets? You can make free copies from a number of places, then help them get started in filling them out. Emily Anne Croom has books with blank copies you can print out, most libraries have copies of her books. For the really young, just give them some papers with pretty items to color, such as each one's surname in large letters with animals or flowers intertwined. I was amazed at how many young people only know their parents names as Mommy or Daddy, and I don't mean really young ones. Perhaps have plastic sleeves to preserve the filled out forms in.

DOTTYMO

How about the ice cream holder someone here posted a few days ago. All ages like ice cream but hate getting cold fingers.

ljptexas

Such wonderful ideas! Actually, I have made pot holders & tissue holders for ladies (so have little head start). Couple of yrs ago I made many, many tissue holders for ladies that attend church. So I'll make all families a potholder using tiny squares with embroidery "G" in center using my trusty, little Brother. Making guys mugrugs using camping scene.
Want to do some sort of family tree thing. Used to do genelogy yrs ago but it's all on an old Mac..
Thanks sooooo much, everyone!!!

wildyard

Another fun thing to do with acrylic paint is to go to the dollar store and buy a bunch of flower pots and let them decorate the pots. If you bring a good glue, they can also collect things around the area such as small pebbles and seeds and grass heads for the decorations. These can be used for containers on dressers or to hold makeup and such in the bathroom. Also, for bigger pots, you can collect your remote controllers in one. Lots of uses. I used one on my kitchen sink to toss in sponges and scratchers as they would drain thru the bottom hole rather than collect scum in the bottom like a regular container would do.

Also, another thing I did with my grand kids when they were a little older was to get a container of white wall putty. Have a plastic or paper plate for mixing colors available. Buy at the dollar store or have people who have them already bring them along, stencil forms that are fairly simple.
Mix a very small amount of putty with a dab of paint then dab with a toothpick or stick until the area of the stencil is covered well. Mix a new colored putty for each area. Attached is a photo of this technique used on some rocks in my garden. The putty gives the raised areas and dries rock hard.

lynnie

how about getting the round magnets at Michaels. glue them on the back of rocks and let the little ones paint the rocks, put the date on the back and they can have them forever as refrigerator magnets.

maryellen2u

Have the adults help the kids. Those bead things. You put the little beads on a grid to make a design and then bake them to melt the beads. I was at a reunion with a mob of kids and it rained! OMG! Then a preschool teacher, God bless her, brought her tub of plastic beads out and it was marvelous. You could hear a pin drop. Entertained everyone for hours on end! I still have the flower my grand daughter and I made together.