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Many great schools have grandparent's day, and there are, of course, a variety of grandparent's day projects and activities for just such an occasion.

· Grandparent's day projects and activities—the scavenger hunt:

• Set up your scavenger hunt and give each child and his or her grandparent or grandparents a set of clues to find the items that have been set out for them to find.
• You can have this grandparent's day activity outside if the weather permits, or you can have it inside the school—in the gym, classrooms, cafeteria, etc.
• Make your scavenger hunt relatively easy, so that the grandparents don not have to do all the work. The students should feel like they are working with their grandparents together for this grandparent's day activity.

Each student/grandparent(s) team will get a prize at the end of the scavenger hunt. The student/grandparent(s) team who found the most items on the list will get the biggest prize in this Grandparent's day activity.

· Grandparent's day projects and activities—Our hands and feet.

This is an especially good grandparent's day project for any time of the year.

• You will need:
  A long piece of butcher paper
  Washable paints
  Markers
  Plenty of water and paper towels
  Tacks, sticky tacks or a staple gun

You may want to have the student and his or her grandparents go one at a time for this grandparent's day project to make it less hectic and messy. Make sure that your piece(s) of butcher paper are long enough to lay out and dry, but also long enough for all of the children and their grandparents to use.

• Have the children and their grandparents choose a color of paint and paint one hand. Both the student and the grandparent(s) will make handprints on the paper. The grandparent(s) handprint beside the students handprint.
• Then have the students and their grandparents do the same with their feet.
• Underneath each of the pairs of hands and feet—write the child and grandparents name.
• Then, in turn, each child and grandparent will wash off their hands and feet with water and paper towels.
• Lay out the butcher paper to dry.
• Once dry, staple or tack the butcher paper to the walls around the room. It will be a great classroom decoration as well as a fond reminder for the children of their Grandparent's day projects and activities.

These are only a couple of ideas for Grandparent's day projects and activities. Once you have finished your Grandparent's day projects and activities, there will be stuff to leave in the classroom and probably be stuff to take home, too. The students will love their Grandparent's day projects and activities so much, they will want Grandparent's day to be every day—or at least more than once a year.

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