I thought I’d do a round-up of some fall and Thanksgiving related posts you might have missed if you haven’t been following for long.
Make Holiday Pillowcases (lots of tutorial online for pillowcases):
Roll-a-Turkey Game (scroll down once you click on that link and you’ll find the printable):
Thankful Tree (I realize there are prettier versions out there now, but I still like it):
And since it’s snowed already here a couple times, mittens are already in use!
Just wanted to wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving for tomorrow!!!
This video makes me so happy. I can’t explain it, other than I am filled with a huge amount of love for people :).
My extremely edited list of things I am thankful for:
a wonderful husband and 3 beautiful children
extended family that we get to see often
my religion
a warm home, plenty to eat, and my husband’s job
wonderful friends
safety and health
And after watching this video, I’m thankful for getting to “meet” so many wonderful people from around the world. You are all so great. I hope you are all having a wonderful Holiday Season!
We are having Thanksgiving dinner at our house this year and I wanted to have a couple activities for the kids to do.
Our local library had an activity last year making butter. My kids thought it was very neat to make their own, and it was so yummy!
While we were there making our butter at the library, one of the other kids was shaking too vigorously and broke his baby food jar, but the librarian said he was the first one to do that all day. So I guess I’m not recommending a glass jar, but it’s what we’ll be using. I think using the wooden ball will help in the jar not breaking.
You’ll need to have a plastic or glass jar, plus a marble or small wooden bead (mine was 16 mm). I couldn’t find any marbles in my town, but I did have some wooden beads that I bought for another project that worked great.
All you have to do is pour some cream into the jar about 1/3 of the way full, add a shake or two of salt if desired, and place the marble or wooden bead into your jar.
Then replace the lid tightly and shake shake shake!!! Shake it until the bead or marble stops to move around. It took me about 5 minutes. It really doesn’t take long, but when my now 5 year old was just 4 last year, he did get a little tired of it but we just took turns…
until it was this:
Yum yum! Remove the marble or bead, and label the jar. I’m excited that we’ll be having homemade butter for our Thanksgiving dinner, made by the kiddos! You can chill it in the fridge before serving if you want it a little harder. Store leftovers in the fridge as well.
I made some labels to put on the jars and set out on the table to be cuter than a baby food jar :). Just glue or tape the label on. You can add some burlap for a layering effect (I didn’t have any) and tie some twine around it. I made the labels so you could read the homemade butter part on both sides of the baby food jar.
You can download the homemade butter labels here. I printed mine onto colored speckled paper.
For our other activity, I used something that my son brought home from school called Roll-a-Turkey. The paper he brought home was from here on littlegiraffes.com. Though still very cute, I thought maybe it could use a little update, so I redesigned it for our Thanksgiving dinner next week and will just print them out for all the kids to play while the dinner is prepared.
Click here for the color version:
Click here for the black and white version:
Hopefully those two activities will find their way to someone who can use them next week!________________________________________________________________________
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Last year I saw the cutest turkey shirt through Ucreate. You can find the real version here on Treasures for Tots. Mine is just a fake version, because I LOVE that you can use a fun combination of fabric on it, but with 3 kiddos to make them for, and not having enough heat n’ bond, I figured we’d just get out some paint after doing the main body for the turkey rather than cutting out so many hand shapes (I’d have had to cut out 30 hand shapes with the heat n’ bond!). 
Just a couple tips really fast.
Before we did the handprints, I traced the turkey shape Angie linked to on her tutorial so that we could have a guideline for the feathers.
A lot of times the paint didn’t fill in the whole hand space, so I just filled in with my sponge brush.
I did end up sewing around the turkey’s body, just in case.
And my last tip? Don’t try to do this alone with three kids—especially if one of them is a 2 year old! It was tricky! I should have done it when Dillon was home. But we took turns with the same color so their feathers could be drying while the next kid took a turn. 
It’s kind of amazing we ever get a picture with all three kids looking good at the same time, ha ha!
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Just download the file found here, trace it onto paper (alternatively you can just print it onto the wrong side of the paper you want to use), and tape it on some background paper to frame. There’s a lot of cute scrapbook paper out there, so you could really do some fun things with this! I probably should have been more careful cutting the top out—it's looking a little crooked in these pictures!
You could also use the file with fabric—just trace, cut, and use wonder-under or something like that to make it into an appliqué. Iron onto some background fabric and either leave as is or sew around the edges. Then frame it!
