10 Ways to Connect with Your Family and Friends Using Video

Using video to connect with your family and friends can be a lot of fun. It can give you so many amazing memories to look back on too. I know that when we record videos of the grandkids, they love to look back at them and giggle at how little they were or how silly they were being.

It’s a great way to build those memories and create bonding moments and it’s a fantastic way to include family and friends who live far away too. I’ve got 10 ways to connect with your family and friends using video here to share with you.

Here are my top 10 Ways to Connect with Your Family and Friends Using Video-

1. Leading up to a holiday, record the kids answering some holiday questions. Upload to Youtube, add a personalized cover image (Happy Easter Grandma!) and send the link to a loved one as a video greeting card.
2. Family members live all over? On the first weekend of each month, ask all family members to record themselves answering the same question. Put on Youtube in a private family playlist. Over the years, these will be like digital family scrapbooks and are great ways to stay connected even though you don’t live close to each other.
3. Record the older members of your family talking about their pasts and put it together as an oral history project for school.
4. Hand it over to the kids. Let them record whatever questions they want and then add this to a family digital newsletter that can be sent out to other relatives.
5. Get family members to record themselves answering some of the wedding related questions. Upload to Youtube and present it as a wedding or anniversary gift. You could do the same with baby related questions for a baby gift. You could even record attendees at the wedding or baby shower for this.
6. Pick one of the questions for each of your co-workers on your team to answer. Put together in one playlist and use as a “getting to know you better” activity at a team-building event.
7. Add appropriate videos to a family tree/genealogy site to add to the story of your family’s history.
8. Have family members or friends and their spouses record answers to certain sets of questions privately. Use these to play a home version of The Newlywed Game at a party.
9. Use questions to play a simple video “Charades” type game on family game night.
10. Pick a random question to record (yourself or the kids). Use this as the story-starter for writing a story or creating a blog post.