Celebrated the first Sunday after labor day, Grandparents' Day is set aside in the US and Canada to honor and visit with grandparents. A West Virginian housewife named Marian McQuade originally thought of this observance to focus on lonely elderly people in nursing homes.
Recommended Resources
Features Biblical resources about grandparents, genealogy and activity ideas for children and their grandparents.
http://www.annieshomepage.com/grandparentsday2.html
Legacy Project: Grandparents Day
Offers a guide to Grandparents Day with information about the importance of children building relationships with their grandparents and activity ideas.
http://www.legacyproject.org/guides/gpday.html
Contains downloadable media, activities, contests, people, projects and historical information about this observance.
http://www.grandparents-day.com/
