Thanksgiving, Part A: Week 11, November 15-November 21

Thanksgiving Week, Part A

Crafts:

Turkey:

• Supplies Needed: Red, yellow, brown and orange construction paper, glue, and marker

1. Cut a circle out of the yellow construction paper for the body.
2. Cut feathers out of the different colored construction paper. Glue on body.
3. Cut an oval out of brown construction paper for the head, glue in middle of yellow circle.
4. Cut a beak out of the orange construction paper. Glue on beak.
5. Cut a the snood(the red thing that hangs down) out of red construction paper.
6. Have your child make eyes with the maker.
7. Made this craft at a local school.

Pilgram Hat:

• Supplies Needed: Black, red, yellow and brown craft foam, stapler, elastic band, black brads

1. Cut out a hat with a brim out of black craft foam. Looks like a upside down flower pot.
2. Cut out a red strip out of the red foam, to put just above the rim.  Glue in place
3. Cut out a flower using the yellow foam. Glue it in the middle of the red strip.
4. Cut out a circle for the middle of the flower using the brown craft foam. Glue in the middle of the flower.
5. Cut a piece of elastic band to fit around your child's head and fasten it on the end of each brim with brads or staple it on.

Thankful Art:

• Supplies Needed: Photographs, magazine clippings, and drawings of people, places, and things to be thankful for, construction paper,  glue

1. Cut out photos of things your kids are thankful for onto pieces of construction paper.
2. Your child may also draw things they are thankful for too.
3. Made this craft at a local school.

Turkey Popcorn Holder:

• Supplies Needed:Brown bag, brown , red, yellow and orange construction paper, glue, plastic bag, popcorn

1. Cut the top off a brown bag, making it ten inches high.  Glue 2-inch strips of cardboard around top edge to stiffen.
2. Cut a brown piece of construction paper into 4 strips(lengthwise).  Cut a fringe into each strip.
3. Starting along bottom edge of bag, glue on rows of the fringed paper until outside is covered.
4. Cut out wings, head, eyes, bead, wattle(red hanging thing),and tail from construction paper, then glue in place.  Let dry.
5. Line turkey with a plastic bag, then fill with popped popcorn.
6. Craft found in Dragon Thanksgiving Feast Book By Loreen Leedy

Thankful hands:

• Supplies Needed: Construction paper, yarn, pencil, scissors

1. Fold a piece of construction paper in half and set it in front of your child.  Place their hand over the paper so their wrist sticks over the folded edge.  Then trace around their hand.
2. Remove their hand and poke a hole through the wrist area of the outline through both thicknesses of paper.
3. Tie a piece of yarn through the holes; then cut out the hands.  Now they have two thankful hands that are linked together.
4. Open the hands slightly and draw a picture of something they are thankful for on the inside of each hand.
5. Craft found in The Kids' Encyclopedia of Things To Make And Do By Richard Michael Rasmussen/Ronda Lea Rasmussen

Handprint Turkey:

• Supplies Needed: Construction paper, crayons

1. Place your child's hand on a sheet of construction paper.  Have them spread their fingers apart and trace around their hand, fingers and thumb with a crayon.  Now they have an outline of a turkey!
2. Turn the thumb part of the outline into a turkey head by drawing in an eye, a beak, and a wattle.
3. Draw on the feet and draw feathers in the finger part of the outline.
4. Made this craft at a local school.

Pom Pom Turkey:

• Supplies Needed: Pinecone, pom pom, feathers, glue, pipecleaner, googlie eyes

1. Glue a pom pom onto a pinecone for the head of the turkey.  Let it dry.
2. Glue feathers into the back of the pinecone.
3. Take a small piece of pipecleaner and fold it in half for the beak and glue in place.
4. Glue on the googlie eyes.

Indian Corn Turkey Art:

• Supplies Needed: Picture of a turkey, construction paper, kernels of indian corn, glue, crayons

1. Print out picture of turkey: Click Here:
2. Take a picture the picture of the turkey glue it onto a piece of construction paper. Let it dry.
3. Take kernels of indian corn and glue it onto picture for decoration.
4. Color in any other parts.

Turkey with Handprint Feathers:

• Supplies Needed: Small paper plate, construction paper, glue, crayons

1. Trace your child's hand out of construction paper for the tail feathers of the turkey.  About 8 hands.  
2. Turn the plate upside and glue the hands on the other side of the plate.(part you normally eat off.)
3. Draw wavy lines on the top of the plate to represent feathers.
4. Cut out a neck, head, wattle, beak and feet and glue them to the plate.
5. Craft found in The Kids' Encyclopedia of Things To Make And Do By Richard Michael Rasmussen/Ronda Lea Rasmussen

Handprint Foam Turkey:

• Supplies Needed: Brown, green, orange, yellow, red, black foam craft, googlie eyes, glue, ribbon

1. Trace your child's hand onto a piece of brown foam. Make sure they spread their fingers. Cut out.
2. Draw big tear-drops out of the other foam colors and cut.  These will be used for the feathers of the turkey.  
3. Glue the feathers in between the fingers at the bottom.
4. Cut out a hat with brim for the turkeys hat.  Cut out a little yellow strip and glue it just above the brim. Cut out of a very small orange rectangle piece, for the buckle of the hat and glue it on the middle of the strip. Glue the hat onto the thumb.
5. Glue on gogglie eyes.
6. Cut out a small orange or yellow beak and glue it on.
7. Cut out a small red wattle and glue it on the turkey.
8. Cut out a small cloud like shape for the wing of the turkey and glue it on the middle of the hand.
9. If you like a kit of these, you can buy them at orientaltrading.com, search # LP-48/4626

The Legend Of Indian Corn Cross:

• Supplies Needed: Green, yellow, red, orange, brown, white foam craft, glue, black fine tip marker

1. Cut out a green cross.
2. Cut out a small orange cross to fit inside the green cross. 
3. Cut out 3 corn shapes out of yellow foam.
4. Cut out 3 green leaf covers for the corn and glue onto corn.
5. Cut out baby squares for the pieces of indian corn to go on the corn. And glue on the corn.
6. Cut out 6 leaves.
7. Glue the corn on the right and left of the cross and at the bottom right corner of the cross.
8. Glue the leaves on top  of the corn pieces. One on the right, 2 on the left and 3 covering the bottom of the cross. 
9. Write the following on the cross with a black fine tip marker:  God put colors for you and me on all the indian corn we see!  Brown is for the beauty of the fall.  Red is God's love for us all.  Yellow is for the golden sun. White tells us to love everyone. Orange tells us to give God praise and keep him with us everyday!  
10. If you would like a kit of these, you may order them from the orientaltrading.com, search #LP-48/5340.

Handprint Fall Hanging:

• Supplies Needed: Brown and red finger paint, green, brown, yellow, black and red foam craft, glue, 2 googlie eyes.

1. Cut out a rectangle out of the brown foam for the frame of the picture. Cut out the center to make the frame.  
2. Glue a piece of green foam onto the back of the brown frame.
3. Cut out yellow squares to glue on top of the brown frame to make it looked checkered. 4 going down and 4 going across all together.
4. Cut 4 red hearts out red foam and glue in the corners of the frame on top of the yellow square.
5. Cut out a little green banner to go on top of the frame that says Happy Thanksgiving!  Glue in place.
6. Cut out a green strip to place at the bottom of the frame that will say your child's name and the year.
7. Have your child place both hands in plate of brown paint, then place their hand in red paint.  Your child's hand should be covered in a mixture of brown and red paint.
8. Place their hands together, thumbs touching(forms the head of turkey) and place them onto the green foam to form the turkey. Let paint dry.
9. Glue eyes onto the head or draw eyes with black marker.
10. Cut out a triangle shape out of yellow foam for the beak. Glue just below the eyes.
11. Cut out  the wattle out of red foam and glue it on the side of the beak.
12. Cut out 2 black bean shapes for the wings of the turkey and place them their turkey, a little below on each side of the beak.
13. Can buy kit at Oriental Trading:  Click Here; Search # LP-48/5341

Turkey Egg Carton:

• Supplies Needed: Empty egg carton, foam ball for the head, its sits on top of egg section, feathers, glue, gogglie eyes, pipe cleaner, brown paint

1. Cut out a section of egg carton and paint it brown. Let dry.
2. Paint a foam ball brown and let dry. Glue on top of egg carton to make turkey's head.
3. Glue feathers on the back of the egg section for the tail feathers.
4. Glue the gogglie eyes on the head.
5. Cut a small piece of pipe cleaner and fold in half to form the beak.  Put a little glue on the ends and push into the foam ball.
6. Glue on small feathers on the back of the head.

Thankful Book:

• Supplies Needed: Craft foam piece, card stock, yarn, hole puncher, pen

1. Fold a piece of foam craft in half to make the cover for the book.
2. Fold pieces of card stock in half and place the cover on the book.
3. Punch 3 holes down the folded side, through both, the cover and the pages
4. Take a piece of yarn through the holes and tie.
5. Have everyone in the family or just your child write down everything they are thankful for.  They can even draw pictures.
6. Write My Family's Thankful Book or My(or child's name) Thankful Book.

Activities:

Edible Necklace:

• Supplies  Needed: Small pretzels, and cereal and candies with holes, yarn

1. Gather small pretzels, and cereal and candies with holes.
2. String on a 30-inch length of yarn.
3. Tie ends in a bow.  
4. Then place on your child and they can eat away.
5. Craft found in Dragon Thanksgiving Feast Book By Loreen Leedy

Wild Bird Feeder:

• Supplies Needed: Pinecone, string, pipe cleaner, peanut butter, wild bird seed

1. Find a large pinecone and tie a string or wrap a pipe cleaner around the end.
2. Spread pinecone with peanut butter, then gently roll in wild bird seed.
3. Hang in a tree so birds can have a Thanksgiving feast, too.
4. Craft found in Dragon Thanksgiving Feast Book By Loreen Leedy

Tube Shaped Game:

• Supplies Needed: Ten empty TP tubes, paint, number stickers, buttons or coins

1. Decorate the tubes with paint. Remember that some cardboard tubes really soak up paint, so you have to use a lot and give it time to dry.
2. Put a sticker on each tube numbers 1-10 on the top of each tube.
3. Place tubes onto a flat surface or on a piece of cardboard. In random order.
4. Have your child stand back and have them throw buttons or coins and try to get them into the tubes.  Add up the scores and the highest or lowest score wins.

Pom Pom Tic-Tac-Toe Game:

• Supplies Needed: PomPoms(yellow-five 1 1/2", ten 5 mm;  orange - five 1 1/2", ten 5 mm), two black and purple pipe cleaners, twenty gogglie eyes, 9 styrofoam cups, purple paint, hole puncher

1. Place a big pom pom into a styrofoam cup.  Cut the cup down to the top of the pom pom.  Do this for all the cups.
2. Paint each cup inside and outside purple.  Let dry.
3. Place the cups 3 across and 3 down. Place together tightly.
4. To keep the cups together punch holes in the sides that touch on each cup.  
5. Cut the purple pipe cleaners, so they can go through the holes in the cup to connect them together.  Twist each pipe cleaner to secure it. 
6. Glue 2 gogglie eyes onto each pom pom. Let dry.
7. Next, cut 9 pieces pipe cleaners for the antennae.  Fold in half and glue on top of the pom pom, let dry.
8. Then, glue the small orange pompoms onto the top of the pipe cleaner of the yellow pom pom.  Let dry.
9. Then, glue the small yellow pompoms onto the top of the pipe cleaner of the orange pom pom. Let dry.
10. Then begin to play tic-tac-toe.  Each player gets the same color. Place a pom pom guy in a cup and then the other person places a pom pom guy in a different cup.  The first to get 3 in a row, wins. 
11. Craft found in the book, PomPoms 50+ Projects By Design Originals.  Bought my at Hobby Lobby.  Can also go on www.d-originals.com

Bottle Cap Game:

• Supplies Needed: 10 empty plastic bottle caps, cardboard, 10 milk jugs rings, glue, black marker

1. Glue 10 empty plastic bottle caps down onto a piece of cardboard, in random order. Let dry.
2. Write different numbers on top of the caps with permanent black marker.  Numbers like 1, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100. Whatever you wish.
3. Have your child throw the milk rings at the bottle caps to try to ring the bottle caps.
4. The one with the highest or lowest score wins.

Bubble Wrap Indian Corn

• Supplies Needed:Bubble wrap, Brown and orange construction paper, yellow, red, orange paint

1. Cut out a corn shape out of bubble wrap.
2. Glue bubble wrap corn onto a piece of orange construction paper. Let dry and cut out.
3. Place red, yellow orange paint onto a paper plate.  Do not mix.
4. Place the corn piece bubble wrap side down into the paint.  It should be multi-colored.
5. Take a napkin or paper towel and gently wipe off any extra paint from corn. Let dry.
6. Cut out 3 stripes out of the brown paper for the tassels of the corn, glue on back of the corn.  Let dry.

• Thanksgiving Printable Activity Pages: Click Here

Turkey Hunting Game:

• Supplies Needed: Index cards, pictures of turkeys, glue
• Hunt quietly, you don't want to scare the turkeys...
  Prepare for the game by drawing or pasting turkey pictures on a dozen
  or so index cards - stickers will work as well.
  To play, everyone leaves the room except the leader. The leader hides
  the cards around the room. Hunters return and begin the hunt.
  As each turkey is found, it is brought back to the leader who corrals
  them in a separate pile for each hunter. When all the turkeys have been found, the hunter with the most turkeys is the winner and becomes the leader for the next round. 
• Game was found AmazingMoms.com website. For Thanksgiving Page Click Here

• Great Games to play for Thanksgiving: Click Here

Food:

• Candy Corn
• Popcorn
• Cracker Sandwiches: Crackers, Turkey, Cheese 

Apple Turkey:  

• Supplies Needed: Apple, Large and small marshmallows, colored toothpicks, raisins, piece of candy corn.

1. Place small marshmallows onto toothpicks, makes the tail feathers. Place toothpicks in back of apple.
2. Place a large marshmallow onto a toothpick and place in front of apple on top for the head of the turkey.
3. Place one small marshmallow onto two toothpicks for the feet.  Place in the bottom of the apple.  Use two more toothpicks into apple so apple will stand up right.
4. Cut 2 slits in large marshmallow for the eyes. Place raisins in the slits.  Can also use chocolate chips with pointy side in.
5. Cut a slit just below the eyes for the nose and insert the candy corn piece or whatever you would like.
6. We made this craft at a local library.

Snack Cornucopia:

• Supplies Needed: Sugar ice cream cone, Little cookies, raisins, marshmallows, nuts

1. Place cookies, raisins, marshmallows and nuts into the cone for a fun snack idea.

Little Cornucopia:

• Supplies Needed: Bugles, peanut butter, trix cereal

1. Place peanut butter on the opening of bugles
2. Have your child put trix cereal onto each bugle, as many as they can fit.

Books:

• Thanksgiving Cats By Jean Marzollo
• Fluffy's Thanksgiving ByKate McMullan
• Turkey On The Loose By Sylvie Wickstrom
• The Dragon Thanksgiving Feast By Loreen Leedy(Story, Crafts, and Food Ideas)
• Thanksgiving Day Is For Giving Thanks By Margaret Sutherland
• This First Thanksgiving Day: A Counting Story By Laura Krauss
• The Little Engine That Could Saves The Thanksgving Day Parade By Watty Piper and Cristina Ong
• I Spy Fly Guy By Tedd Arnold
• Red Boots(Baby Max and Ruby) By Rosemary Wells
• Clean Up(Baby Max and Ruby) By Rosemary Wells

Songs:

• Sung to "If your happy and you know it"

Hello, Mr Turkey, How are you?

Hello, Mr Turkey, How are you?

His Feet Go Wobble, Wobble

And His Head Goes Gobble, Gobble

Hello, Mr Turkey, How are you?

They taught this song to my daughter at school and she loves singing it!

Turkey Pokey

This is sung to the tune of the Hokey Pokey but the children will pretend that they are turkeys as you all sing things like:

You put your right wing in, put your right wing out, You put your right wing in and you shake it all about. You do the Turkey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.

You put your left wing in, put your left wing out, You put your left wing in and you shake it all about. You do the Turkey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.

You put your red beak in, put your red beak out, You put your red beak in and you shake it all about. You do the Turkey Pokey and you turn yourself around. That's what it's all about.

This song was found on www.theideabox.com website.

• For a whole bunch of Thanksgiving Songs Click Here

Movies:

• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• Winnie The Pooh - Seasons of Giving
• Miracle on 34th Street
• Dutch
• Pocahontas
• Starting Nov. 23 there will be tons of cartoons on nick jr. and other channels. I will list these next week.

Thanksgiving, Part A: Week 11, November 15-November 21