Connecting With Your Kids Through Traditions

Learn

• Get inspired to create a new tradition with these ideas from PBS KIDS.
• Read how you can help nurture grandparent-grandbaby relationships in the early years and beyond.
• Create a new holiday to celebrate with your family!
• Use these elements from Let’s Go Luna to help your child feel connected to your family’s cultural history.
• Hear how the Sac and Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa gathers each year to celebrate customs passed down through the generations.

Play

• Submit your family-favorite recipe to our Iowa recipe collection in celebration of The Great American Recipe.
• Find a new way to spend some quality time together as a family.
• Food brings family together. Document your family recipe to share with others.
• Spread some kindness as a family! You can create a May Day basket any time of year.
• Learn about Día de los Muertos by making tissue paper marigolds.
• Create an audio recording of a family tradition to share with other family members.

Explore

• Start a conversation! Talk about traditions with your children.
• Find new places to explore across Iowa and make new traditions! Check out these trip lists perfect for your family from our friends at Travel Iowa.
  • Road trip to the Covered Bridges Scenic Byway
  • Attend a Cultural Festival
  • Take a European Vacation, in Iowa!
• Explore activities for children through the State Historical Society of Iowa’s Goldie’s Kids Club!
• Create a new family recipe! Get inspired from Iowa Ingredient.