1. Engraved style with arts and crafts influences and stylized game birds.
2. Fly fishing silhouette with a heartbeat and a fish jumping from the water.
3. Grandpa and grandson silhouette fishing from a dock, boat, or shoreline.
4. Treating the tattoo as the beginning of a larger mural paying homage to adventures with the grandfather.
5. Heart-shaped rod and reel tattoo with personalization options like a name, date, or phrase.
6. Colorful imagery of the grandfather’s favorite animal, fish, or insect.
7. Outdoors yin and yang tattoo with elements indicating the grandfather’s favorite hobbies.
8. Emotive tattoos like two bucks locking antlers, a proud elk, or a sleepy bear.
9. Patriotic tattoo ideas for veterans, including the entire map of the United States or a waving flag over a state.
10. Using branch of service memorabilia, such as a hat or flag.
11. Using an army flag as a background with a Douglas MacArthur quote.
12. Incorporating dog tags and a rose.
13. Depicting eagles in different settings.
14. Replicating badges or crests from the branch of service with a motto.
15. Using an anchor with elements indicating death.
16. Featuring boots, a gun, and a helmet to honor wartime service.
17. Incorporating words like courage and strength along with symbols of death.
18. Using a globe and sunset in silhouette with a grandfather and granddaughter.
19. Adding scrollwork to a heart shape in a colorful design.
20. Black tattoos with flowers or poems.
21. Watercolor tattoos with nicknames.
22. Doves with shading to create an illusion of white ink.
23. Tattoos of a floatplane or water to represent grandpa’s hobbies.
24. Colorful hummingbird tattoos with or without grandpa’s name.
25. Flower tattoos inspired by grandpa’s garden.
26. One flower with a long stem and grandpa’s name or meaningful text.
27. Using symbols such as a rainbow, a watch set to the time of the grandfather’s death, an anchor, a bird in flight, a tree, a cross, a heart, a set of footprints, a sun, a moon, a star, an open book, a set of keys, a compass, a globe, an hourglass, a dragonfly, a butterfly, a rose, and an infinity symbol.
28. Commemorating shared hobbies between a grandchild and grandfather as tattoo ideas, including fishing, hunting, gardening, cooking, baking, painting, and drawing.
29. Sculpting inspired tattoos that can be enjoyed by both grandfathers and grandchildren.
30. Memorial tattoos that can help keep a grandfather’s memory alive.
