🍧 Create a Food Family Tree Activity! Fun for all ages

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Who doesn't like to eat? 🍉Food is a part of our daily lives, needed for life-sustaining nourishment and providing great variety to discover and enjoy the world around us through our senses. What are your favorite foods?🥨 You probably have many of them; I know I do. 😀

But, what about your family relatives and ancestors' favorite foods? 🍕Have you ever thought about creating a food family tree? 🍽️ This engaging and interesting activity may shed some light on why you and your family members enjoy certain foods.

You can find the 🍗 food family tree activity steps here, along with some lovely printable family tree charts to use with the activity or to create your own family tree. Have fun talking with family members and relatives 💬 to find out about their favorite foods and searching for pictures or drawing those foods 🍰 on your food family tree chart!

Anyone hungry yet??!! 🌭

Other ways you can enjoy different kinds of foods and incorporate family history at the same time include:

• Make foods to enjoy from where your ancestors lived. Get inspiration from recipe story videos here.
• Write your own recipe story. Learn more here.
• Plant a family garden, including favorite foods from family members and relatives. Find gardening tips with kids here.
• Create a family cookbook and share with family members. Besides the recipes, consider including the stories behind the recipes and photos of family members. Start now and make copies to give as a Christmas or birthday gift. Get the family involved in typing, finding family photos, editing, choosing recipes, etc. You can make it as simple as index cards on a ring or printed and bound. Discover ideas here.

What fun ideas have you found to connect family history and food? Please share them below.

Cornelia Metsätähti

Thank you for these nice ideas.

ifyerhappyanduknowit

I thought about this when my Grandma passed away. At her funeral service, my aunts and uncles had brought in a lot of Grandma's favorite foods (especially Sees Candy!) to serve and it was REALLY neat. Thank you for the reminder to learn about favorite foods of other ancestors and learn to cook them as well.

Most libraries will have cooking sections where you can find cookbooks with recipes from different areas of the world. That is a fun way to involve the kids -- get to the library and have them pick out different cookbooks to try out that have recipes from their ancestors' homelands.