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DOWNLOAD HACKATHON DESCRIPTION HERE | Please post your hacks!

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DOWNLOAD HACKATHON DESCRIPTION HERE | Please post your hacks!

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Use the pink button on the bottom right corner of this screen to open a new tile.

Once you do that, you will get a space to enter your team's hack!

You can use the buttons on the bottom of the new tile you opened to add a picture, link to a website, record your voices, or other options.

Once you click away from the tile, everyone else will be able to see it. You can also change the color of the tile at the top.

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Put together a short slide show of favorite family photos from past holidays and recent celebrations to share during a Zoom gathering.

Contributed by David Drews

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Be intentional with questions that draw out emotion from past holiday gatherings - greatest memories, what people liked the most, what people hope for in future holiday gatherings.  Stirring up past emotion may help fill the absence of emotion many of us will feel with the limited in person interaction we will have this holiday season

Contributed by David

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Send care packages of homemade favorites to family members that are not present.   Consider sending a meal to them on the holiday so they don't have to cook and know they are being remembered

Contributed by David

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Gather neighbors and friends remotely by having them share food that is packaged up so everyone gets part of the potluck. Click on the image to see details larger.

This Garage Gratitude hack came from Barbara Steer, published in New York Times and discoverd by Gretchen

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And a few more hack ideas

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle#:~:text=Description,a%20year%20of%20good%20fortune

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Have all of your distanced family/friends grab a fallen branch and place it in a flower pot or vase. Everyone writes something they are grateful for on a paper leaf. Make multiple copies of the same gratitude leaf and mail to everyone participating. Using twine, hang all of the gratitude leaves on your branch and now all of your distanced family/friends will have the same version of your gratitude tree.

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My granddaughter and I are very close and are feeling the separation seriously. My wife came up with the idea of crafting together, so she buys us duplicate crafting sets that we do together. I am not much of a crafter so my 9 year old granddaughter takes the lead and teaches grandpa how to do the craft  and when it works it is  awesome!!

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Activate:
Love, Community, 5 senses

Artifacts:
Ornaments with family photographs
Candle w/ familiar scent
Decorate shipping Boxes elaborately
Family Christmas Montage (Create a video or slideshow from old christmases)

Connect:
Safe Christmas Cookie Exchange (Like the garage potluck)
FaceTime visits around the day
Sending food to others
Mail recipes

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ACT is having a virtual Thanksgiving gathering and we will be learning how to make origami turkeys. We are using festive fall paper and following a tutorial together to create some fun turkey decor.

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Walk to Church without going to Church. Recreate the parts of the experience that you can. Create a sacred ritual without going to mass

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Share your favorite holiday recipe to your friends, families, and communities a few days before the holiday and each of us picks one to cook and bring together in a virtual Potluck party! :)

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Holiday Pajamas (and Other Common Artifacts)

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Holiday Pajamas (and Other Common Artifacts)

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Hack: our family has the tradition of receiving holiday-themed pajamas on Christmas Eve. This year we'll be at separate locations. I've ordered everyone this year's holiday pajamas (shipped to their individual houses), so we can still open them together Christmas Eve and then wear them for Zoom Christmas festivities.

Other ideas for Christmas = having common Christmas-themed mugs, making a shared family playlist of Christmas music on Spotify (or other similar platform), getting matching sweaters, etc.

You could adapt this hack for lots of holidays.

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Use text to share gratitude during a longer window of time (e.g. 24 hours of gratitude). Possibly pair people up so everyone shares/receives gratitude. Consider ways to honor remembrance.

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Have everyone bring a meaningful artifact over Zoom, and record session to preserve memories.

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Recreate our tradition of doing a talent show with cousins and extended family on Zoom

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On a Saturday morning in December, we would block out a few hours where different families would join on zoom to bake together while separated. Each family would be responsible for bringing a recipe that has some special significance to their family, and then you would take turns talking through your recipes while you make them. Ideally you would stagger the different dishes so while one thing is in the oven, something else is on the stove, and you are mixing something else, or frosting something else. The kids would be involved in the baking. In the end, we would each have an opportunity to taste what we made together, and could even take a moment to virtually pass around the foods that we made. 

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Along with the expected discussion this year of where and with whom, have your invitation request family/friends to consider:
1) 6 words that describe this unprecedented Thanksgiving
2) 6 things you're grateful for this year
and/or
3) if so inspired: a Haiku for the day

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Loved ones (grandparents, aunts, uncles, friends) can read children stories (holiday or otherwise) over Zoom or FaceTime.

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If doing puzzles is part of your holiday traditions, you can do them online at the same time with family located far away on this website:
https://jigsawpuzzles.io/

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You can play card games like cribbage, hearts, or go fish (and many others) online with family members who live far away.  When we play, we usually also call each other on the phone, so we can chat while playing cards.

https://cardgames.io/cribbage/

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Other resources about re-envisioning how we gather

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Other resources about re-envisioning how we gather

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1. Priya Parker (author of The Art of Gathering) has a newsletter that grapples now with how we gather during COVID19. She also had a limited series podcast (Together Apart) with the NYTimes at the beginning of the pandemic. All of her materials are linked on her website. Her work has completely changed how I teach and how I structure gatherings with friends and families.
https://www.priyaparker.com/

2. There was a recent Splendid Table podcast that Priya Parker and others were on that was entirely about reconsidering how to approach the holidays during the pandemic: https://www.splendidtable.org/episode/2020/11/06/staying-close-even-when-distant-with-sam-sanders-and-more

3. The Heath brothers book, The Power of Moments, has lots of great inspiration (grounded in social science) for making moments memorable. https://heathbrothers.com/the-power-of-moments/

4. The Friendship Files column in The Atlantic includes various ways friends are staying connected during the pandemic: https://www.theatlantic.com/projects/friendship-files/ (my favorite new idea from this is two friends who write each other a haiku every day)