Family Portrait

Have your child get to know members of your family by collecting information and picturing it on a graph.

What you'll need

Paper

Pencil

Crayons

What to do


1. Choose an inherited family characteristic: hair colors, for example.

2. Count how many people in the family have the different hair colors.

3. Make a graph. For example, if 5 people have brown hair, draw
5 heads (side by side) to show; these five people. Do the same for the other hair colors.

Graphs help everyone including adults understand information at a glance. By looking at the lengths of the lines of heads, your child can quickly see which hair color, for example, is most common.