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[quote=Anonymous]Not sure if this helps but my favorite activities with grandparents at that age included:

Learning how to sew
Going on walks
Baking baking baking
Playing games like bingo and various card games, Monopoly which was one my parents never had patience for
Washing and waxing grandpa's car
Basic woodworking
Card making with rubber stamps
Making ornaments for the Christmas tree
Hearing about what my mom was like as a kid, particularly when she got into trouble!

You could suggest your kids to do interviews and record them, and then they can spend time editing the videos and showing grandparents cool tech tricks. Actually, that's the kind of thing that would get my kids' grandparents to leave early, if they had to learn how to use various computer programs, so win-win! They could take an Excel class together, lol.

For watching shows, maybe some nature documentaries like Planet Earth or some of the PBS ones could be interesting. Maybe a show about the years when the grandparents were children could make for interesting conversation. Like they may be too young for the Great Depression, but watching the American Girl movie about Kit and the Great Depression could lead to them taking about what their parents said about that time.

Or you could have them work together to batch cook a bunch of freezer meals for your upcoming "busy month at work."

And sometimes it's okay just to exist in the same space doing different activities. I used to try to heavily schedule grandparent visits, but realized that they're okay sitting together on the couch with their books while my kids read their own.

Also, anytime grandparents stay for a week, DH and I try to go out for at least one date night. Each kid could have a friend over one night. One of my kids is requested to go over to our neighbor's every time they have grandparents in town because my kid asks a ton of questions and their friend's grandparents love talking with her. They send her greeting cards for all the holidays now![/quote]

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