Several years ago, as a "party favor" for Clayton's birthday guests (which were basically just his relatives), I made photo memory games. It's just like the memory games you can buy, but with the faces of loved ones which little kids LOVE. You collect pictures of all your family members. Go to Staples or OfficeMax and color xerox them, reducing and enlarging where necessary so everyone is about the same size. Then copy each picture using the special xerox feature that produces a least 8 of the image on one sheet of paper (it's much cheaper than just xeroxing the same picture a dozen times. ) You can either xerox the images on cardstock or glue the paper onto cardstock after xeroxed. ( recommend a glue that works well with paper - like rubber cement. Some glues will make the paper all wrinkly.)Laminate the front of the pictures (you can buy laminating sheets at Staples). Then cut them out into individual cards. Each memory set will have two of each picture. I bought little pencil cases to house all the cards.
As a variation, you can use the cards to put together a family tree. Just cut some strips of index cards or paper and then you can help your child lay out all of their family members in a family tree. I just did this with Caroline and she loved doing it. It also helps kids visualize how everyone is related to eachother.
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