Gretchen
Northcott, Director of the
Manila, Utah FHC reports on their successful Ward Family History Social
and shares some fun ideas:
We had our ward social last night with
a family history theme and it went very well. I had some display
tables set up with items from member's family history. Also a
display
on our center and sign up sheets for Paf etc. I used a lot of the
ideas from others that I gleaned from the website and the emails you
have sent along.
We played some fun games: One was
just a trivia sheet that people could get the answers from looking at
the displays. I had a pedigree chart on the back of the paper
and they
put their own name in the primary position...then if anyone was related
to them that person just signed their sheet (It didn't matter
where)
It could be brother/sisters/aunts parents etc. If they
handed in
their sheet, with both sides completed, they got a treat.
Another game was finding safety pins
in some sawdust. I told them that "Sometimes doing research was
like
looking for a needle in a haystack" and they had to pick out as many
pins as they could in 10 seconds. The kids loved this game.
Our last game was "Find your parent",
I blindfolded all the kids that wanted to participate and put them on
one side of the gym...the parents had to call their kids names and lead
them to find each other dispite all the other people calling for their
kids. It was noisy but very fun. They all liked this
game. I gave
out treats to the winners in all the games. (That was very popular!)
We had a potato bar and people brought
breads i.e. banana, pumpkin, etc. (an idea used from your
site)
It was a fun evening and I got a lot
of positive comments. I think people are getting excited about
family
history again.