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My son has to make a family tree for Spanish, but not in a traditional tree shape.Any ideas?

Like Draw it on paper?  Or create objects?I like the puppetmaster Idea...each puppet can be a person being held up by strings moved by the puppet master...your son.Or Spanish Related you could do Pinatas with names on them.

It is on a posterboard

Pyramid start at the top and work your way down.

If you have a Cricut what about using the PaperDoll cartridge, if you have one,  and cut out each family member?Carolyn

What if he did it in the shape of a star with himself in the center?

How about " The heart of our family " using hearts with the information written on them?

love the stars and hearts....him being an 11 year old boy...I think he'll go for the stars

I think circles would be cute too- radiating circles with himself in the middle, each generation radiating outward?

I saw a fan shaped one on the net once and it was really cool.   Here are a couple I found just now:

Could you design and color it like a dancing fan?

Aztec sundial w/himself as center 

I actually think i'll make one with that top diagrahm shown! Great idea! lol.

I thought a mobile would have been cool, but you said you have posterboard.  I like the fan ideas above.Good luck! 

I think the pyramid idea is neat and the stars too.I had an idea. Based on Days of our Lives. Where they say "Like sand through an hourglass so are The Days of our Lives".You could make an hourglass and have your ds  at the top and then falling through the bottom of the hourglass odd circle shapes cut with deco scissors and saying "Like sand through an hourglass so are the many family members in our Lives".