It's National Grandparents Day!

Hooray, it's Grandparents Day on Sunday 4th October 2020 - the perfect day to tell them how much they mean to you - whether they're near or far 👴👵

Some people might not be able to see their grandparents in person, so why not send them a virtual hug instead, with our super easy activity 🤗

What you'll need:

• Card that's big enough to fit both your hands on - it can be plain card or coloured card
• Colouring pens
• Scissors
• Hole punch - optional
• A pencil
• Some string - any colour
• Some paints - if you want to colour your card in

What to do:

1. Draw around both your hands on the piece of card using a pencil 👐
2. Carefully cut both of the hand shapes out - you might need an adult to help you with this ✂️
3. Once you've cut them out, you can either draw something lovely onto the hands or write a nice message - make it nice and colourful too! 🎨
4. Once you've finished painting, drawing and writing and it's dry, make a little hole at the bottom of the thumb on each of your cardboard hands - the easiest way would be to use a hole punch, but if you don't have one of these, you can carefully make a little hole using your scissors - again you might need help from an adult with this ✂️
5. Measure your string so it's about a meter long 📏🧶
6. Thread one end of your string through one of the hand holes and tie a little knot 🔗
7. Thread the other end of your string through the other hand hole and again tie a little knot 🔗
8. This should leave you with the two hands attached to the string but approximately a meter apart.

That's it, you're special gift is ready to go - you can now send this off to someone special and they can use it to have a virtual hug with you on Grandparents Day.