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The Family Reporter kit with question cards and a pencil on a wooden table

Interview kit for kids

The Family Reporter

Children ask the best questions. Give them a press pass and let them get the story.

$7.99 New for Christmas

  • Sample page from The Family Reporter interview kit: Your Press Pass
  • Sample page from The Family Reporter interview kit: What were your mom and dad
  • Sample page from The Family Reporter interview kit: My Interview Notes
  • Sample page from The Family Reporter interview kit: Draw It!
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Every family has a reporter.

This kit turns a visit with Grandma or Grandpa into a real interview. The child picks the questions, wears the press pass, writes down the answers and turns them into the front page of The Family Times.

The grandparent gets to tell their story. The child gets to know them. The family gets a keepsake. For ages 6 to 12, with a grown-up helping the younger ones.

What's inside (27 pages)

  • 48 question cards in six themes: When You Were Little, School Days, Fun and Games, Family and Home, Big Moments, Big Wisdom, plus card backs
  • Two cut-out press passes and six tips on how to be a great reporter
  • Worksheets: Guess First, interview notes, Then and Now, Rapid Fire, a life timeline, Draw It, Their Favorite Things, What I Learned
  • The Family Times: a newspaper front page for the finished story
  • An Official Family Reporter certificate and a fold-over thank-you card

Two editions, two sizes

  • Full-color edition and ink-saver edition
  • US Letter (8.5x11 in) and A4, plus a printable front and back cover

How it works

  1. Download the files right after purchase.
  2. Print the cards on cardstock if you have it, and cut them out.
  3. Pick five questions and start the interview: on the porch, on a video call, or at the Christmas table.

For Christmas break, a visit to the grandparents, or a school family history project.

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