grandparents day celebration

Grandparents Day Celebration

Ways to Celebrate Grandparents on Grandparent's Day, Crafts, Activities, the History of Grandparent'
11. Share Grand Successes
As part of Grandparents Week, we highlight just some of the many successful people raised by their grandparents in a publication called Grand Successes Stories of lives wellraised. It profiles individuals ranging from a business leader, an NFL player, a recent college graduate, to the President of the United States.During Grandparents Week, we encourage you to read and talk about it together as a grandfamily. Sign up to receive alerts from Generations United to get a first look this exciting new resource and share it with your friends.
12. Pledge Your Support
Policies and programs should provide more support to grandfamilies like yours. Pledge your support for improved legal, health, educational, financial, and other policies for grandfamilies by signing Generations United Grandfamilies Pledge. Generations United will share your pledge with policymakers and other decision makers to secure a better tomorrow for grandparents and the children they are raising.
13. Grand Ideas for Intergenerational Programs
How can you make Grandparents Day a little grander this year? Plan and coordinate intergenerational activism projects. Create opportunities for older adults and youth in your community to come together, learn about important civic values and then reach out to policymakers and the media to make a grand difference for all children and youth in your community, state, or even nationwide.
14. When Is Grandparents Day
National Grandparents Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day, annually.

September 7, 2014

15. Hold a Grandparents day in your community
Everyone has fond memories of the being at their nan and pop place it where you had go to get the kind of love that only a grandparent can give. This year Grandparents Day will celebrate our shared memories of being at home with our grandparents.
16. The History of Grandparents day
National Grandparents Day falls each year on the first Sunday after Labor Day. It not a holiday invented to sell cards and flowers. It was initiated at the grassroots level by West Virginian Marian Lucille Herndon McQuade, with the behindthescenes support of her husband Joseph L. McQuade. They had 15 children, 43 grandchildren, 10 greatgrandchildren, and one greatgreat grandchild. After being married for over 60 years, Mr. McQuade passed away in 2001. Mrs. McQuade passed away in 2008.
17. Official flower of US Grandparents Day
The official flower of the U.S. National Grandparents Day is the forgetmenot which blooms in the spring. As a result, seasonal flowers are given in appreciation to grandparents on this day.
18. Organize A Grandparent Day In Schools
Starting a Grandparents Day in your local schools is easier than you think. That because once the idea is announced people are always eager to get involved. Form a planning committee consisting of your grandchild, the school principal, teachers, the PTA and assorted community leaders.It is vital that everybody in the school district be excited about their Grandparent Day in the School. Get the ball rolling with your grandchild first.On the eve of Grandparent Day, organize a kickoff dinner with children, parents, grandparents, teachers and community members.Begin GDS with a school assembly. The speaker should give a brief, upbeat, humorous and inspirational talk. When the assembly has concluded, have children give their grandparents a tour of the school. It is best to assign a central room where grandparents and grandchildren can congregate during the day.The day after GDS have teachers question the children about their experience and ask for their input about making GDS even better next year. Once a school has a Grandparent Day in the School it usually turns into an annual event.There are always grandparents who, for one reason another, are unable to attend GDS. The grandchildren of absentee grandparents naturally feel left out when this happens.
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  • 20. How to Celebrate Grandparents Day
    National Grandparents Day is celebrated on the first Sunday after Labor Day. If youre lucky enough to have your grandparents around, take this opportunity to appreciate and get to know them.

  • Get your grandparents a gift
  • Spend the day with them
  • Ask them questions about their lives
  • Tell them about yourself
  • Talk about memories they had with their grandparents, or about what your parents were like (you might dig up some embarrassing stories about them that you can tell at the dinner table)!
  • Talk about all the things you used to do, or if they are well enough, go out and do something you used to do with them when you were a kid, like going to the museum, painting, or fishing.