Get your family get-together going!

Fun ways to get conversation flowing at family gatherings!

Family Trivia:

It’s All Relative
Back in the '80s when Trivial Pursuit was the rage, teacher Lynn Bonsey of Surry, Maine, and her sister, Lorna Healey, came up with “It's All Relative,” a homemade version based on their often hilarious family history.

Players: Three or more.
Materials: Colored index cards or card stock and pens (optional: photographs, tape recordings, game boards).

Make sure to get the word out that each person needs to bring questions to the gathering. Questions like: How did Cousin Joe break his arm last year? What is Aunt Sophie’s dog’s name? Cards can also ask questions about accompanying photographs or tape recordings. The game can then be played in any number of ways – individually, in teams, on a game board or just as a quiz contest. To add a little bit of excitement and anticipation, write each letter in the phrase "It's All Relative" on a piece of card stock and put it in a container. Each time a team gets a question right they get to grab a letter. The first to spell the title of the game wins.

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Trivial Pursuit: Family Version
Sit down with a few immediate family members and write out as many questions as you can about things that only family would know. Write out one question per index card.

Give 5 to 10 cards to each family member as they are gathered together. Give them a few minutes before the game starts to write down questions about themselves and about other family members; you may want to make some easy and hard questions. Resources for information could be items such as high school yearbooks, journals and old home movies.

Use the cards in much the same fashion as the original Trivial Pursuit game or use them as a quiz. Those with the most correct answers win a prize.

For some extended fun, have a video or audio tape going as you play. Many stories will be told that may never be told again. Don't throw those index cards away when you are finished with the game. Write the answer on them and save them. You can save the questions, answers and stories told by typing them up and distributing to the family.

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How well do you know your family members?
Try this game of true or false! Gather everyone in a circle and have each person say three things that happened in the past year – with one of the things being false and the other two being true. Then the others guess which are true and which is false. You can have fun with this and make the items as normal or outrageous as you want. To raise the level of difficulty, make each person say five things, with two being false and three being true. It's a fun way to catch up with each family member.

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