Use construction sets such as Lego, or boxes and other found materials. You could make a roller coaster for marbles from cardboard tubes. Read Mrs Barnett's Birthday . Children bake and decorate a birthday cake. Children work on the Poems for People Machine to make rhymes about people in their family.
Children make a card for someone in their family.
Scan photos of children's families. Make family trees. I Have a Home . Look at the different kinds of home. Children make a collage picture of the homes from cut-out paper, cork, shells, felt or grasses.