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4. Dancing. The younger groups love to dress up
and dance. We have a chest of dress-up clothes for
both girls and boys and a place to dance to beautiful music that matches the mood. There nothing that
shows personality more than dancing to great music!
5. Art. I love art, and we have had a great time
looking at beautiful classical artwork and then painting our mountains and lake in the style of the artist
we have been studying (for example the pointillism of
Seurat and the impressionism of Monet and Renoir).
6. Scriptures and Quotes: I compile favorite quotes
and scriptures and am amazed at how good the kids
are at memorizing them. I like the idea of having
those good thoughts rumbling around in their heads
throughout their lives.
7. Music. I was a music major in college so in recent
years I gathered a list of my favorite classical music
and sent it via email to the parents of all the grandkids
from ages 5-17 on Spotify (ask your grandkids if you
don't know how to do that). I offered a cash reward
for recognizing each composition and another one

if they could name the composer during a contest at
Grammie Camp. Money was a terrific incentive and
a good investment for a music-loving Grammie who
wants her kids to love music!

Our first list, which is pretty kid
friendly was:

1. Aquarium by Camille Saint Saens
2. Peter and the Wolf by Serei Prokofiev
3. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by Johann
Sebastian Bach
4. Clair De Lune by Claude Debussy
5. Symphony No.9 (Ode to Joy) by Ludwig van
Beethoven
6. Spring from the Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi
7. Star Wars by John Williams (this was by far, the
favorite)
8. Rodeo by Aaron Copland
9. Flight of the Bumble Bee by Rimsky Korsakov
10. Morning Mood by Evard Grieg

8. Ancestor Stories: As discussed in great detail in
our column here two issues ago, the value of teaching our children about their ancestors is enormous.
Knowing stories about the lives of those who came
before them gives them resilience and grit. One year,
in advance of Grammie Camp, I assigned each of the
kids the name of an ancestor to research online (with
their parents' help) at familysearch.com or ancestry.
com. Then, each child actually "became" that ancestor during our time together-dressed up like them
and presented what life was like for them when they
lived.
Of course, through the years, there are also precious one-on-one times spent with each of our
grandchildren that neither of us will ever forget but I
realize that this group time in Grammie Camps pays
real dividends every time I hear from one of our
twenty-year-olds reminding me of how our relationships with each other were deepened and solidified
during those glorious times we spent together at
Grammie Camps.

Richard and Linda
Eyre's parenting and
life-balance books
have reached
millions and been
translated into a
dozen languages.
As fellow Baby
Boomers, their
passion and their writing focus has now
shifted to the joy of Grandparenting. Linda's latest book
is Grandmothering, Richard's is Being a Proactive
grandfather, and their latest co-authored book is Life in
Full. All three of these are now on sale on Amazon.
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