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It's been a while, but I think family weekends went something like this:
FRIDAY: Big/Little night. Plan something with one or two other families for dinner or an evening activity. This is a chance for your family to get to know another family better.
SATURDAY: Formal Presentation Brunch where the different areas of kappa are highlighted (Scholarship, the new member process, alumnae, etc) while everyone eats, parents are asked to save their questions for the evening. A song is sung at the beginning and at the end. Some awards given at this time as well, which is nice for the parents to see.
Then the afternoon is filled with old-fashioned games like tossing a water balloon back and forth between you and your sibling or parent, things like that, and one "family race" where you tie everyone in your family's ankles together for a variation on a three-legged race, only it has to be everyone in your group. All sisters w/o families present are one long, tied-together team. Really, you could play whatever games you wanted to do or set it up like a mini-carnival.
The day ends with everyone together for a BBQ dinner, followed by the siblings doing a non-alcoholic, lots of dancing sort of mixer with a fraternity also having their family weekend. Most of the kids were 10-17 and thought college was like a big night club. (ha ha) While the siblings were doing that, the parents had a meeting from 7-9 with the Advisory and House Boards to get info and ask questions.
Sunday: Be with your family for the day, all kappa meetings cancelled, etc.
As far as T-shirts go, I remember someone doing something where at the outdoor games on Saturday, those who wanted to make one could bring a plain white shirt in their size. The Everyone in your family used their feet and hands with fabric paint to make an owl somehow. I think you use the footprints to make the bottom where the feathers are in dark blue and then the sides of both hands each holding a "O" shape in light blue to make the head or something. It was a cute idea, though I can't remember how exactly it worked. I'm sure you crafty ones can figure it out, though!
Hope this helps.
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