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Happy Thanksgiving!

Today I am thankful for family, health, a warm home, good friends, and my husband’s job. And for these wild turkeys, which entertain my children by wandering through our yard from time to time.

Looking for crafts? Here are a few favorites of mine:

I love the personality of this hand print turkey card from 4 [...]

Gratitude Chain

 

MATERIALS:

Colored paper
Scissors
Tape
Pen

Steps:

1) Fold paper accordion-style, leaving it the width you want for your leaves. We folded our paper in fourths.

2) Cut out leaf shapes, paper doll style (so that at least one leaf on each side rests on the fold so they stay attached). Emma maintains that some of my “leaves” [...]

Thankful Hands

 

I originally intended to string these up as a garland (see previous post), but always-opinionated Emma disapproved. I think her idea of putting them up on the window is pretty cool.

I cut out six tracings of Emma’s hand and six of Johnny’s hand. Then Emma told me what to write on each hand. I [...]