If you have chairs, couches, or stools you’ve brought along, great! You can use those to sit some family members on while having other stand on the sides or back. But what if you don’t have furniture? Look around your environment. Are there steps, ledges, giant rocks, or posts to sit on or lean against. If you see something in your location, use it to pose the family.
Don’t pose them at all. If you are walking to another spot, wrapping up the last pose or just taking a short break.? Hang back and snap a few photos of the family just being them. Sometimes this works and you capture some pretty neat photos and other times it doesn’t. So just give it a try and see what you get!