Creating Special Days With Your Grandchild

Color day

When our children were kindergarten-age, we would have some “Color Days” they loved it.

• choose a color, like red
• wear red clothes
• make red party hats out of construction paper
• make and eat red foods
• look through magazines for red birds, red flowers, red vegetables
• make a craft using red felts or paints (e.g. spatter painting)
• look for red items in your home
• look up some Bible verses where the color “red” is mentioned
• look through red cellophane to see what the world around you would look like
• ask the child what comes to mind when “red” is mentioned
• do some face-painting with red

Alphabet day

We’ve done this when the children were preschoolers through Grade 1.

Choose a letter, like “J” (maybe use the letter the child’s name begins with).

• eat and make foods which begin with a “j”
• do activities like a jigsaw puzzle, playing jacks, juggling, jumping, jogging, painting a “j” picture on the cheek
• eating Alphabet soup and looking for “Js.”

Rainbow day

• wear colors of the rainbow
• paint rainbows on cheeks
• blow colored bubbles
• paint with all the colors of the rainbow
• decorate cookies with colored sprinkles
• make a rainbow with a garden hose

Crazy day

• wear mismatched clothing
• style each other’s hair in weird ways
• eat dessert before the main course
• eat on the floor or with chairs turned sideways
• do a crazy junk-art type activity
• play a game like “Snakes and Ladders” backwards (go up the snakes & down the ladders)
• read crazy stories or tall tales
• tell crazy jokes
• allow child to answer your telephone by saying, “good-bye”

Apple day

Visit an apple farm – either in the spring when the trees are in blossom or in the fall when the fruit is ripe

• buy 1 or 2 apples of every available kind, do a taste-testing session and record your results
• make applesauce, dried apples, or any other apple dish
• use apples as a table centrepiece
• bob for apples
• tie a string to the stem of an apple, attach the string to a clothesline or rope and let the child (with hands behind his back) try to bite out of the swaying apple
• look up some apple trivia on the computer or have the child find the answers to certain questions
• cut an apple in half horizontally, observe the star inside, then cover it with paint and press onto a piece of paper
• ask the child if he knows any famous sayings about apples (e.g. An apple a day keeps the doctor away)
• make a dried-apple doll or any other craft using dried apples or slices

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