How do you make a Family Tree?
What would be a good way to make a creative fun family tree and on what material so it can be mounted and hung.
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plant some seeds and water it every day
how about embroidery? you could get a piece of calico fabric and draw on a tree, and then embroider along the lines. Print out the family names using a really nice font, and transfer that onto the calico, and embroider over the outline of the writing.
Hope that gives you a good idea. all the best.
Get/make an outline of a large oak tree and use small pictures of the ancestors with each progressive limb being another generation.
Two options: 1) Go to a park, TAKE A PHOTO OF A TREE from a good distance. Have it blown up in 3D to any size you want (up to the size of a mural) so you can label the branches with the names and faces of family members. Make a list of their names underneath the tree and thumbtack a small, thin ribbon next to each name and correspond the same color ribbon to the name and face photo on each tree branch to match. Or 2a) Buy sheets of "oak tag", a neutral beige product paper, thick like cardboard, used for canvassing art and SKETCH YOUR OWN TREE, color it all in using the colors of autumn. Then, do the same thing with the ribbons as mentioned above. Sometimes "oak tag" can be found in light blue, red or orange in professional art stores. Or try "card stock" at a copy center (used to make business cards). Copy centers are usually able to print out billboards, posters, etc. to specific sizes for gifts. Shade in the background, if you use the beige, with a color that will highlight every face and leaf. Or 2b) Instead of sketching a tree, you can SKETCH RECTANGULAR BOXES and fill-in the full names of each member per box, who married who (with maiden names, if you want or not) starting with 2 at the top, for the 2 eldest living married parents (grand, great grand, great-great grand) who started it all; wife (left), husband (right), the same way a wife appears first on a wedding invitation and wears a wedding ring on her left ring finger. Then draw a line between the 2 boxes to connect them. Then draw a separate row of rectangles going across underneath them for each child they shared together. Then, the spouses of the children underneath, then their children, then their spouses, and so on until you’ve reached the present generation that hasn’t gotten married or had any children yet. You can color in the boxes and shade in the background, just not so dark that you can’t see the names. Don’t forget to use horizontal (side to side) and vertical (up and down) lines all the way down and across to connect the marrieds with their children to the right families. It’ll be beautiful ! Good Luck!
I have made a couple of textile ones, taking photographs of family homes where direct ancestors were born and using the photographs as templates for colour/texture using fabric…another is sheep’s wool collected from the wire at my families farm, made into felt ( 6′ x4′) leave collected from the oak tree that has been there for several hundreds of years, as have my ancestors as I have photographs going back 150 years with them climbing in it, sitting picnicking under it or just standing in front of it which I pressed and ’secured’ under a fine layer of felt then appliqued, old wire coat hangers which I have twisted and made into a tree, with roots and branches, bronzed and sewn on, with bronzed wire and /or felt oak leaves, felt acorns and a felt family history poem onto the main felt piece….. the next one I am doing is based on a fan chart http://www.misbach.org/pdfcharts/ it is in fine green hand made linen ( a piece of linen made for me from the flax going on my land ( I have a 200 year old flax millers cottage in Ireland) and it was sample made when they were doing some tourist demonstrations about flax growing and linen making in the area….I am making some ribbon roses to ‘grow around’ the fan and will embroider names of the family in….have a look online at different family trees, take photographs that are interesting and even family associated, put everything in an ideas book, make sketches and them look through it and you will come up with something suitable for you and your family….you are only as limited as your mind allows…good luck with your creativeness