How to Make an Easy Family Tree for Kids
Understanding the past is an important part of looking toward the future. Children love to know that they inherited their father's eyes or their mother's love of reading. Realizing that those traits also belonged to more distant family members helps them to feel more connected to their family and the rest of the world while giving them a sense of their personal history. Creating a family tree can be an interesting, thought-provoking activity to teach your child about her genealogy.
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Things You'll Need
- Paper
- Computer
- Internet
- Full names of parents and grandparents
- Birth dates and locations for parents and grandparents
- Death dates and locations for applicable people
- Pencil
- Crayons or colored pencils
- Pictures of child, parents and grandparents
Instructions
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Draw a tree on your sheet of paper, or print a family tree from an online website.
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Color or decorate the tree however you like.
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Write the child's full name at the base of the family tree. If you have printed a family tree, there may be a single box at the base of the tree for the child's name.
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Record the child's birthday and the city and state where she was born below her name.
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Enter the father's name, birthday and place of birth above and to the far left of the child's information.
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Record the mother's name, birthday and place of birth above and to the far right of the child's information, opposite the father's name.
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Write the paternal grandparents' names, birthdays and places of birth in the same fashion directly above the father's information. The grandfather's information will go on the left, the grandmother's on the right.
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Write the maternal grandparents' information above the mother's name. Again, the grandfather's information belongs on the left and the grandmother's on the right.
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Tips & Warnings
You may also wish to record a death date and location below the birthday and location where applicable.
Glue pictures of each family member to the family tree, above their names.
References
- Photo Credit family tree image by Judy Ben Joud from Fotolia.com
