15 Grandparents Day Crafts & Activities

Grandparents Day is such a fun way to express your love and appreciation for the Grandparents in your life. Have fun making these Grandparents Day crafts, grandparents day poems, cards, as well as these entertaining activities for grandparents day. Make these Grandparents Day crafts together as a family, play group, or even together as a church group and celebrate the wonderful people in your life. The Tip Junkie Creative Community has 54 Grandparents Day crafts and Homemade Gift Ideas with pictured tutorials and free patterns on how to make! So be sure to search there if you’re looking for something specific. {wink}

When Is Grandparents Day?

When is Grandparents Day? In the United States, Grandparents Day is held on the first Sunday after Labor Day every year and this year lands on Sunday, September 9, 2012. Next year Grandparents Day date is Sunday, September 8, 2013.

Grandparents Day

1. Salt Dough Hand Prints~ These salt dough hand prints are a wonderful keepsake gift! It’s a great way to capture small hands and see the growth throughout the years. They are so simple to make and I guarantee you already have all of the ingredients in your kitchen. {wink}

2. Goofy Grandkids Album ~ A fun project that captures your children’s silly expressions and personalities. Print your instagram pictures or other silly photos of your children and put them in an album so that their grandparents can always go back and look at them!

3. Baby Footprint Necklace ~ Looking for the perfect Grandparent’s Day gift? Well, look no further. This actual baby footprint necklace is ‘extra special’, personalized, easy, and inexpensive. Simply stamp the babies footprint onto shrinky dinks, cut around the print and bake to ‘shrink’ the print.

4. Pocket Watch Photo Album {tutorial}~ Turn a pocket watch into an accordion style photo album. What a great gift for grandparents.

5. Grandparents Day Gift~ Black and white photos of your children make the perfect canvas for the desired saying. Once you know what you want to say then you can search for the needed scrabble tiles.

6. Photo Tile Tutorial {Gifts for Grandparents}~ Grandparents always love gifts that have photos on them. These homemade photo tiles are wonderful as a display, or you could make a set – maybe one of each child – and they could use them as coasters.

7. Handprint Tree Art {Grandparent Day Craft} ~ This beautiful art project for kids becomes even more sentimental with the use of their handprints. A great project for the kids to work on together to present grandma and grandpa with one beautiful picture.

Grandparents Day Crafts

8. Grandparents Day Card ~ An adorable card for grandparents plus your child will have a blast making it. The hand print folds down to reveal a photo of the child.

9. All About Grandma {free printable} ~ Grandma will get a good chuckle from this questionnaire. Simply print it and have your child answer the questions. Their answers will surprise you. You can also find a grandpa questionnaire on this blog.

10. Grandparents Day Cards {free printables} ~ Grandparent cards can’t get any easier than these. Simply print them and have your child sign their name. Don’t forget the x’s and o’s.

11. Keepsake Hug Pillow {tutorial} ~ This hug pillow is perfect for grandparents who live far away and don’t get to visit their grandchildren often. You can trace your children’s hands on card stock and then transfer them to fabric. A perfect project to use fabric scraps.

Activities for Grandparents Day

12. Turn Children’s Art into Tea Towels ~ What an ingenious idea to turn your children’s artwork into tea towels! It’s such a fabulous way to display their artwork and in the place we seem to spend the most time. Simply trace your children’s artwork onto a flour sack kitchen towel using a fine tip Sharpie. That’s it!

13. DIY Bird House Craft ~ Bird houses are always a fun project to make, especially for kids. This would make a great gift for the grandparents, or be a fun party or youth activity. It is made from two half pieces of molding, affordable and easy to find at your local hardware store.

14. Family Tree Wreath {tutorial} ~ A beautiful and unique way to display your heirloom photos. Using copies of course. Aren’t the fabric leaves with the family names fantastic? It would be a fun family history project to involve your children. The entire project cost around $6.

Grandparents Day Poems

15. Grandparents Day Poem ~ A sweet poem to accompany the tiny handprints of your little child.

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