Photo Collage
 from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Create a family photo collage that you can "read" again and again.
Materials:
• Family photos
• Non-toxic glue
• Heavy paper
• Three-ring binder or photo album
Directions:
Glue pictures on a piece of heavy paper. Talk to your children about the people in the pictures and how they are all relatives and part of your family. You could store the pages in a photo album or three-ring binder. Each child in your family might like to make his or her own collage.
When you go on a trip to see relatives, encourage your child to draw their own pictures about the visit. Add your comments on a separate page and put these in a notebook to help your child remember the family members they visited.
My Family and Me Book
from Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Your child can be author and illustrator of a book about your family.
Materials:
• Family photographs (optional)
• Paper
• Crayons or markers
• Construction paper lightweight cardboard
• Stapler
Directions:
Help your child make a book about your family by pasting photographs or drawing portraits. Your child may want to use a separate page for each person or make family cluster pictures, including grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. Your child may want to write or dictate things like: what they call that person, how that person is related to them, what they like to do with that person. Use construction paper or lightweight cardboard for the covers, and have child design the front cover. Staple the covers and pages together for a book that's about "My Family and Me." |
There are many different kinds of families. Just look around your neighborhood or at your friend's families. This is the time of year when we celebrate mothers and fathers. Mother's Day is in May and Father's Day is in June. Whoever makes up your family, be sure to tell them you love and appreciate them (even brothers and sisters) and not just on their special days.