Grow Your Own Family Tree

You Need:
Large sheet of paper
Colored paper
Scissors
Paste
Crayons,
markers, or colored pencils

You Do:
1) Draw a tree on the large sheet of paper. Be sure to give your tree lots of branches!
2) Cut out a color paper shape to represent you -- a circle if you are a girl or a square if you are a boy. Write your name on the shape and paste it on the trunk of your tree.
3) Cut out shapes for all of your present family members and others important to you -- mothers, brothers, neighbors, pets. Write names on the shapes and paste them on the lwer brances of your tree.
4) Cut out shapes for all your past family members and others important to you -- grandparents, great-aunts, friends. Write names on the shapes and paste them on the upper branches of your tree.
5) Draw a pciture on each shape that tells something about that person.
6) Congratulations! You have started doing genealogy -- recording your family history!

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