Family Tree for Kids: Project & Printables for Learning About Genealogy

This mini genealogy unit will help you and your children explore your family’s social and genetic history with the Family Tree for Kids: Project and Printables.

Get ten different projects for learning about family history and the studies of genealogy and genetics as well as printables and an extensive recommended book list about family trees, including selections for children who have large, blended family “forests”

These family tree genealogy worksheets are perfect for military families on Veteran’s Day, or any family at Thanksgiving .

This Family Tree for Kids: Project & Printable will bring you and your kids closer together as you record the members of your family from your child to their great-grandparents.

There are many unique and fun projects listed to help your children explore the topic of genealogy and their family history, plus a STEM activity about genetics.

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Resources for Your Family Tree for Kids Project

Me and My Family Tree by Joan Sweeney for PreK to 2nd grades

This is My Family by Mercer Mayer for PreK to 2nd grades

Cousins by Marnie Reynolds-Bourque for PreK to 5th grades

Do Families Grow on Trees? by Lauren Matcha for elementary students

Florence and Her Fantastic Family Tree by Judy Gilliam for elementary kids with big, blended family forests

The Adoption Tree by Kimberly James for adopted kiddos

The Kids’ Family Tree Book by Caroline Leavitt for elementary

National Geographic Kids Guide to Genealogy by T.J. Resler for upper elementary & middle school

Roots for Kids: Finding Your Family Stories by Susan Provost Beller for middle school & up

For an in-depth STEM look at your family history check out My First Book About Genetics (Dover Children’s Science Books) for elementary kiddos

Activities for Your Family Tree Project for Kids

• Make a personalized Family Edition of the classic game “Guess Who?” using these instructions from Paper Trail Design

• Or create your own Guess Who? game with Legos by following the simple directions from One Mama’s Daily Drama.

• Gather some old photos of relatives, make 2 copies of them (saving the originals) and use them for a fun memory game to help everyone learn to recognize their great-grandma or “Old Uncle Fred” when they were younger.

• Have your kids “interview” their older relatives and record their answers. Trust me, it will make a treasured keepsake! Use these “40 questions to ask your grandparents” from Of the Hearth if your kids need help coming up with questions.

• Visit a cemetery where one of your relatives is buried. Take some wildflowers to place on their grave. Take a picture and upload it to Find A Grave, which is a fantastic place for genealogy research.

• Select one of your ancestors and learn all that you can about them. Did they immigrate to America? From where and when? Create a timeline of their life, recording when they were born, married, had children, moved, etc.

• Complete the “My Family Tree” printable, which comes in both color and ink-saving gray to record 3 generations of your family.

• If you’d like to go back further into your ancestry, use this 5 generation family tree from Family Tree Magazine.

• Create a play-dough family tree with playdough and toothpicks with these directions from Growing Little Leaves

• For a STEM activity about inherited family traits that uses the book, The One and Only Me: A Book About Genes, by 23andme.com, check out this fun dominant and recessive traits activity and printable from Family Locket for elementary students.

• Your preschoolers may want to read these All About Me children’s books as a part of their family tree study.

Printables for Your Family Tree Project for Kids

More Resources for Your Family Tree Project for Kids

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