Family Reunion Activities

Unique family reunion ideas
for family bonding and fun memories.

Family reunion activities are excellent family bonding opportunities – a chance to build family relationships and to have fun together. The following activity suggestions offer wonderful possibilities for successful, memorable moments.

Remember the Past

In the past, extended families lived close to one another. It was easier to get everyone together for an afternoon picnic or Christmas gift exchange. These days, distance separates loved ones and it’s harder to stay in touch.

A family reunion offers families a chance to return to the past. They are an opportunity to celebrate your family’s stories and traditions while getting to know your relatives better.

Consider your family hobbies, interests and limitations when planning family reunion activities.

Gather input from various family members via survey and then plan accordingly.

Make memories for the future

Do you enjoy healthy competition? Have each family branch decorate a different color t-shirt and then wear them as team jerseys for Family Olympics. If Great Grandma has a hard time walking, ask her to be a cheerleader. Place her in a comfortable chair in the shade with a pom pom.

Do you have a family full of auto mechanics and car lovers? Schedule your family reunion around a car show. Help the kids craft cars out of cardboard boxes and then participate in a "race." Set up a free community car wash in the parking lot and let the kids sell popcorn and hotdogs.

Do you share a love for genealogy or family history? Gather at the "homestead." Visit and clean up the gravesites of your ancestors. Dress up in vintage clothing and have old fashioned pictures taken.

More family reunion
activities and themes…

Center your reunion around a Kindergarten theme – let the kids make the invitations, hold a talent show for show and tell, and involve everyone in an ABC family reunion craft.

Celebrate your family history. Include your family crest on the invitations, assign groups to act out family stories, and decorate at the reunion with a family tree. Not sure about your family tree? Try a new Ancestry.com Membership with a free 14-day trial.

Get to know your cousins while tie-dying t-shirts. Wear the shirts later on for the family photo. Enjoy time together doing family crafts.

Pretend you’re at the county fair. Hold a dessert contest. Ask the uncles to be the judges and let the kids hand out blue ribbons. Compile your favorite recipes into a family cookbook. Have the babies compete in a baby race.

Observe the holidays. Host an UNbirthday party and break a piñata. Or celebrate Christmas in July with ornaments and a white elephant gift exchange.

	Create family interaction with a personalized deck of cards or icebreaker activities. Compete as individual family units or guys against girls.
	Hand out family reunion award certificates for being the "Proudest Parent," showing the "Most Team Spirit," or for telling "The Best Family Reunion Jokes."
	How about a school carnival or field day? You can't go wrong with a traditional fish pond. You know - where the kids throw a stick with a string attached over a "wall" and get a prize. (For inexpensive prizes and great trinkets, Oriental Trading is my all-time favorite.) Create an obstacle course out of hoola hoops and cones. Play croquet golf or bean bag basketball. Create a game of bowling using empty 2-liter soda bottles.

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