Ravina Sewani

Kids love outdoors and grandparents are fond of nature. This activity is perfect for children who are looking forward to spending some quality time with their grandparents. You will need:Nothing absolutely, except you, your grandchildren and a walk in the nature. You will do:On a fine morning, or evening, whichever time suits you the best, along with your grandchildren, go for a nice walk in a park or on the roadside. Take up any of the following three for your walk:1. Collecting things from the walk – You can make a list of the things – e.g.&nbsp;leaf, red coloured flower, twig or small stem, fruit, feather, stone, etc, which you would like your grandchildren to collect from the walk.2. Take a camera or use mobile phone and ask them to click pictures of things they see – from each alphabet.3. Practice Random acts of kindness – e.g. pass a smile to others, pet an animal, wish people (good morning or good evening), giving hi-fi to people,&nbsp;pick up a trash, let someone else go first, give a flower to someone, feed the birds, etc, along the way. Happy Gaming!

Significance:Activities such as these help in developing a very strong emotional bonding between grandchildren and grandparents.

A walk with a twist

Things you will need: Just the creativity of your minds. How to:<ol><li>Make up a story by adding details one by one.</li><li>One person can start with something like “Once upon a time…”, "Long long time ago..", "In a far away land..." or something similar to these. The next person in the group is supposed to take the story further with their imagination.</li><li>Continue this turn by turn as long as you can or till the story stops making sense!</li><li>Have fun with all the laughing fits that this activity brings along with it.</li></ol>

Significance:This will increase your grandchildren’s imagination.

Make up a story

Things you will need: large sheet of paper, coloured paper, scissors, gum, crayons, markers or coloured pencils. How to:With the help of your grandchild(ren) set this activity up as follows: <ol><li>Draw a tree on the large sheet of paper. Be sure to give your tree lots of branches!</li><li>Cut out a colour paper shape to represent your child. Write your child's name on the shape and paste it on the trunk of your tree.</li><li>Cut out shapes for all of your present family members and others important to you — including pets. Write names on the shapes and paste them on the lower branches of your tree.</li><li>Cut out shapes for all your past family members and others important to you. Write names on the shapes and paste them on the upper branches of your tree.</li><li>Draw a picture on each shape that tells something about that person.</li></ol>

Significance:This will introduce your child to their family members and help them understand the generations in the family.

Family Tree

Things you will need: Just a story in your mind. How to:<ol><li>Choose any story which your grandchildren love.</li><li>Take turns to act out the story line by line.</li><li>You can make this activity more interesting by using props or doing it at a suitable location, similar to what is mentioned in the story you are acting out.</li></ol> Fun fact: You can do this activity on a family get together with all the family members.

Significance:This will improve your grandchildren's non verbal communication and imagination.

grandchild activities

Activities are an interesting way to teach important life skills to children. Here are a few suggestions for you.

A walk with a twist

Make up a story

Family Tree

Act out a story

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