Make It Monday - Kids Thanksgiving Craft

I am so excited about all this week has in store for our family! My Mom arrives from Texas tonight to spend the week w/ us. ~Hi Mom!~ Both of my sons will be celebrating birthdays this week, I'll be hosting the big Turkey Day and Mom is teaching me how to make her famous turkey & dressing, shopping on Friday, and the list goes on! And did I mention the kids are out of school, so we get to sleep in...yay!!!

Since Friday was the kids last day of school before a week off, their classes had Thanksgiving feasts. It is my 1st year being a Room Mom for my daughter's class. I put together this fun little craft that the kids seemed to enjoy. This would be fun to do w/ your kids at home this week, or if you are hosting Thanksgiving you could let the kids do this craft before or after dinner.
Preparation:
I bought yellow/orange cups at the dollar store. Cut out multi colored "feathers" from construction paper, purchased some cellophane treat bags, candy corn, & yellow ribbon. Candy Corn is half off at most stores and the Dollar Store right now. I also printed out on a piece of brown construction paper, "Happy Thanksgiving Little Turkey" to tie onto the bag of candy corn.

First, I had them decorate their cups w/ Turkey faces, feathers on the sides, etc. w/ a marker. Then they wrote on the feathers things they were thankful for. Next, I helped them tape the feathers onto the back of the cup. After everyone was done, I placed a bag of candy corn in each cup that I had tied the "Happy Thanksgiving Little Turkey" note onto. They loved it! It got them thinking of things they were thankful for, while doing a little craft at the same time. Enjoy!




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Happy Thanksgiving!

As the Holidays approach I seem to be falling into the same habit of being sad and thinking of when we lost my Dad 3 years ago at Christmas. I am working hard to break that pattern this year. It seems as though God has been sending me the same message over and over....be thankful for what you do have this year, instead of thinking about what you do not have.

I thought about that a few weeks ago and decided to try & focus on that this Holiday season. Since then, I have been seeing that same thought written in several different blogs and articles I have read.

So, as I gather with our family to celebrate Thanksgiving this year, I will remember to focus on what a wonderful family I am blessed with, instead of the ones I have lost.

Hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving & God Bless!

Giving Thanks

Our church kid's newsletter this past week had a little activity that I wanted to share. I'm always looking for fun conversation starters for meal time. We did it at the dinner table the other night with the kids & they enjoyed it. I know there is a name for this, and I can't remember for the life of me what it is called. You take the word Thanksgiving and for each letter name something you are thankful for that begins with that letter. For example, T- my daughter said Uncle Tom
H-we said Hayden (another family member) and so on.

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.

1 Chronicles 16:34

Have a great weekend!

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