thanksgiving

Origami Turkeys

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Here’s a little something for the big kids to help the little kids make for Thanksgiving – origami turkeys! The origami turkey is folded like a swan. We used a great origami swan photo tutorial at Marcel’s Kid Crafts. We used 6″ squares of construction paper, which is a little hard to fold, but worked [...]

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Turkey Doodles

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My girls love those doodle-style coloring books (like these) so I thought they would enjoy making some turkey doodles for Thanksgiving. I made simple turkey body tracers and drew turkeys all over some pieces of white drawing paper. Then, the girls got busy adding eyes, beaks, feathers, and all sorts of other details. They were [...]

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Give Thanks – Paper Quilt

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I wanted to do a project with the girls that would help us focus on gratitude and all the many things we have to be thankful for. Last year, we wrote Thankful Poems and we enjoyed pulling those out and reading them again. We’ve done all sorts of turkey projects in the past, which always [...]

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Groovy Gobblers

Remember all those painting tools we played with yesterday?  Now we have turkeys!  The girls basically did these themselves – I did cut out paper turkey bodies and felt beaks and waddles at their request.  Here’s their instructions, more or less…. First step – cut up all your artwork into small pieces and throw them [...]

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Turkey Pet Rocks and Thankful Poems

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Good morning! I am actually quite eager to jump into Christmas decorating, but I’m trying to hold out and savor these few days leading up to Thanksgiving. Today we are going to write Thankful Poems – basically just a fill-in-the-blank outline. This is the outline we’ll use: I’m thankful for _____ and ______ and ______. [...]

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