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Thanksgiving Craft Roundup

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I’ve been gathering ideas for Thanksgiving crafts for the last couple of weeks and have found so many good ones.

Since I know I’m not the only one looking for inspiration at this time of year, I thought I’d share some of my favorites.

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The Chocolate Muffin Tree shows you how to make beautiful coffee filter turkey cards.

Kitchen Counter Chronicles shares adorable hand print turkey napkin rings.

The thankful tree from JDaniel4’s Mom is a wonderful craft for teaching about gratitude.

Practice a little bit of origami and make these cute turkeys from Let’s Explore.

Little Wonders’ Days made turkeys using rubbings from homemade feather rubbing plates.

My girls would have fun playing with these rockin’ turkeys from Itsy Bitsy Learners.

Classified: Mom shows you how to make these fun 3-D textured turkeys.

Laugh, Paint, Create shares these colorful collage turkeys.

Small Types shows you how to make a simple and very beautiful thankful log. It would make a wonderful keepsake!

Little Family Fun has another great way to show thankfulness with this gratitude turkey.

Do you have any Thanksgiving ideas you want to share?

In November: Book and Craft

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The minute I saw the book, In November by Cynthia Rylant, I knew it needed a great craft project to go along with it.

The book is beautifully illustrated accompanied by a very poetic text  about the different things that happen in November. We heard about what the trees, animals and even families do in November.

After we finished the book, it was crafting time!

I set out our pressed leaves that we still had from our leaf rubbing garland, paper, and paint. We were going to try some leaf stamping.

I showed the girls how to paint the leaf then turn it upside down and press it on their paper. They were ready to go!

AJ preferred the stamp and press portion of the craft, so I did the leaf painting for her.

Lizzie was able to complete the whole project herself.

We painted, stamped and pressed until we had four pieces of paper covered.

When they were done stamping, they decided to paint with the brushes on their paper as well.

While we were working, we talked about November. We talked about the weather, animals and holidays.

I asked “What happens in November?” and collected their answers.

Once the paint was dry, I took out my Sharpie and wrote their answers on the artwork. I covered them in contact paper and we had four place mats.

In November…
It’s a little bit cold and a little bit warm
We look forward to Thanksgiving
The geese are flying
The leaves are red, yellow and orange and falling to the ground
We eat pumpkin pie
We feed the birds
It’s very windy
We see a lot of orange
We paint a lot

How are you celebrating November?

Happy Halloween!

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The porch light is off.The candy bowl is empty.

The kids are in bed.

Halloween is over.

My little bear and my little witch had a great time wandering the neighborhood with Daddy while I stayed behind to hand out candy.

By the time they got home, their excitement had gave way to exhaustion.

Tomorrow is November and all the Halloween fun gets put away until next year.It was a blast and we made many good memories. Hope your Halloween was fun!

Card Making Basket

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I recently set out a little basket of card-making supplies for the girls to make Halloween cards.I kept it simple with pre-folded card stock and a variety of stickers.

Sticking stickers is always a popular activity with my girls, so I knew they would be excited to see the basket.

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The girls had a great time and made quite a few adorable cards, which will soon be in the mail to surprise a few folks.They enjoyed this activity quite a bit and I plan on doing this for many more holidays in the future.

The card-making basket could be quite adaptable for any age of child or any occasion. Here are some other ideas for items that could be included.

Card Basket Supplies:
markers
crayons
scissors
glue
glitter glue
paper punches
construction paper, scrapbooking paper, etc.
ribbon
buttons

Have fun with the supplies and let your kids be creative. You never know what wonderful ideas they may come up with. Plus, think of all the people that would be thrilled to open up their mailbox and find a homemade card. I know I would be!

Five Little Pumpkins…

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Can you believe we’ve never read the Five Little Pumpkins before?I decided not to let another year pass without reading this book and added it to our story time this week.

Of course, we needed to have a little bit of fun with it. So, I made jack-o-lantern finger puppets.

I simply drew five pumpkins on card stock and cut them out.The circles on the bottom are finger holes.

If you don’t want to draw your own, there are plenty of clipart pumpkins you can enlarge, print and cut out.

Meet four of the five little pumpkins.

They’re a wee bit silly and tend to giggle a lot.

These two are good friends who like to hide and scare each other.

Catch me if you can!

If you haven’t picked up the Five Little Pumpkins, you should. It’s perfect for even the smallest child and it’s even more fun when you have your own little pumpkins to play with.

If you want more ideas for activities to do with this book, Toddler Approved has a great post about it here.