Reaching the kids...well, my kids, anyway.

[ISURedbird]

I thought it would be fun to purchase a couple retail blasters of 2016 Topps Opening Day to open with my family last night. My wife, me, our 7-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son had a blast. The kids were opening packs and squeeling and yelling like it was Christmas when they came across a card that they thought was cool, or a player on a team we like. We decided to sort them and will try to complete a set together. (Didn't count, but we two blasters completed at least half the base set, plus inserts. My son even pulled an auto.) So, we put them in a binder and are off and running.

The kids have looked at it twice, before begging for their own binders and sheets to put the cards they already have. My little girl called an audible and decided to use the binder for her Shopkins cards, but my boy and I sorted all his cards into teams and we've been putting them in sheets. We're talking about players and teams, and he decorated his binder with a picture he drew of a baseball card. He's having a blast, and we're having a blast together.

In 1979, I was six years old and my parents bought me my first cards, and it started me on a hobby that has created so many great memories. I'm hoping my own family will have many more memories together like this.

Now, how else can we experience this hobby together? How do you collect with your family? I'd love to get some more ideas. (Bonus points for fairly inexpensive ideas.)