10 interesting ideas for Grandparents' Day

Do you have a special bond with your grandma and grandpa? Or quite the opposite, have you had trouble finding a moment to spend time with them, busy with your own things and studies? Sometimes it doesn't take much to celebrate Grandma's or Grandpa's Day. Here are 10 interesting ideas:

... and if you can meet up and spend this time in person. If not - check out the last three points on our list.

Ask grandma and grandpa to reserve these special days for you in advance. When you visit them, do something really special together, while having a great time:

1. Organize a stylized photoshoot with grandma and grandpa - a professional photoshoot by a local photographer or an informal photoshoot by a friend or your parents

2. Create a family tree together, put it in a frame and hang it on the wall

3. Watch grandma and grandpa's favorite old movie together

4. Take grandma and grandpa on a trip to a beautiful or new place

5. Invite grandma and grandpa to the cinema or a cafe. Take grandma to the hairdresser, beautician, shopping

6. Dust off old albums, look through old photos, listen to stories from the past

7. Organize a meeting of grandmas and grandpas in a larger group. Arrange with your friends that they too take their grandmas and grandpas for a walk and to a café at the same time as you. Introduce grandmas and grandpas to your friends' grandparents, maybe this will be a great opportunity for them to make new friends, which they will continue on their own?

If you live far away, here are equally interesting options for how to spend Grandparents' Day online.

8. Virtual coffee or tea with grandparents

Arrange a virtual High Tea - a meeting over tea or coffee - via video conference. The day before, send a gift set containing tea, coffee and delicacies to grandma's or grandpa's house and attach a greeting card inviting them to this virtual event at a given time.

What's better, you can also send the link to the invitation to the "virtual tea" meeting to other grandchildren, making the meeting even more enjoyable.

9. Be your grandparents' private DJ

Find songs online that bring back memories. Maybe your grandparents have wanted to hear them for years, but didn't know how. You can also teach them how to search for and listen to their favorite songs online.

10. Family Pub Quiz

A great idea for Grandparents' Day is to organize a family Online PubQuiz. Sometimes all you need is a list of questions on a piece of paper, but there are also several platforms available on the Internet where anyone can organize an interactive quiz with their own questions, free of charge, e.g. the Kahoot platform available in Polish.

The person organizing the quiz creates a list of questions and sends the link to the participants. Participants, regardless of where they are, log in on their own phone, where they can choose answers to questions visible in the organizer's presentation. At the end of the game, the points are counted and the winners are announced. The organizer's role is to create a list of riddles and moderate the game.

Here are some examples of interesting questions:

1.Who is older? Aunt Y or Uncle X?
2.What was the model of Grandpa's first car?
3.Where was Grandma and Grandpa's wedding?
4.Where did Grandma and Grandpa meet?
5.What was Granddaughter X's first word?
6.Which grandson started walking/talking first?
7.In which month were the most grandchildren born?
8.Which name is repeated most often in our family?
9.What is Grandma's favorite tea/color/flower?
10.What is Grandpa's favorite cake/dish/drink?

If you are using a platform that allows you to add photos to the questions, we also recommend scanning old photos from the album and asking questions like:

11.Who is in this photo from the christening?
12.When/in what year was this photo taken?
13.Where was this photo taken?
14.Why is X crying in this photo?
15.Who was dressed as Santa in this photo?

The most important thing in composing questions is to give everyone an equal chance, and for each person or family to have an equal number of questions about them. The questions should not be offensive. A family quiz should be, above all, great, shared fun.