This year for Thanksgiving, instead of reading books about the Mayflower and making boats to sail to the "New World," we mostly did crafts and colored. Let's just say a pregnancy helps you scale back, whether you want to or not. Now that the baby is out and things are going well, hopefully after Christmas we will move back into a great learning routine. We were doing so well last year during January and February, I hope we can get back to that somehow. It's hard with Joshua in school, but I suppose it doesn't have to be impossible.
Anyway, we made a turkey out of paper and an empty peanut butter plastic jar. This is a tradition (to make the turkey) and then write our "thankfuls" on pieces of paper and stuff them inside. The idea is we read our thankfuls on Thanksgiving day and everyone has to guess who wrote what - this works better when you do it with a big crowd, such as my entire in-law family, but not so well when I am the one writing all the thankfuls for a bunch of little kids who can't read or write. Anyway, the Turkey is still sitting in the living room. We just haven't gotten around to opening it yet, although it will make a good FHE activity whenever we remember to do it.
We also make "Mein Dankbarkeitsbuch." I created a book for each child and they were to draw pictures inside of things they were thankful for. I made Joshua write out the cover and a few of the pages inside (Ich bin dankbar fur...) but I did Lukas' entire book for him, making sure to draw things he would be able to recognize and actually say. It is cute to watch him read his book. Abigail, I'm pretty sure, drew about 2 pages and then decided she was done. That's my Abby!
I printed out some coloring pages off the internet of various Thanksgiving things. This was supposed to keep them entertained on Thanksgiving Day when we would all be busy in the kitchen. I think we forgot about them.
I have a book that I used when I was a little kids full of craft ideas all of which require a cut out of your hand. One of the great things about this book is that it is extremely kid friendly. Joshua could probably do most of the crafts on his own. So for Thanksgiving we picked on of the harder hand crafts. The fancy Turkey. We also colored some pilgrim and indian heads (print out off the internet) and taped everything on our craft window in the playroom downstairs.
On Thanksgiving Day my mom, who was in town to help out with the kids and the new baby, actually did all the work. Just like the good ol days, huh? It was fantastically delicious. Everything was. Absolutely fantastic. We got around to husking and shelling some of our walnuts. It took Bob and Derek maybe two hours to fill this jar. I have a feeling we may not get through the 10 or so big boxes full of walnuts in our garage this year. That's a lot of walnuts. (We may also decide that we don't need BOTH walnut trees eventually too. I would be ok with that.)
Here is our dinner. Fantastic.
This makes me hungry all over again!
Anyway, we made a turkey out of paper and an empty peanut butter plastic jar. This is a tradition (to make the turkey) and then write our "thankfuls" on pieces of paper and stuff them inside. The idea is we read our thankfuls on Thanksgiving day and everyone has to guess who wrote what - this works better when you do it with a big crowd, such as my entire in-law family, but not so well when I am the one writing all the thankfuls for a bunch of little kids who can't read or write. Anyway, the Turkey is still sitting in the living room. We just haven't gotten around to opening it yet, although it will make a good FHE activity whenever we remember to do it.
We also make "Mein Dankbarkeitsbuch." I created a book for each child and they were to draw pictures inside of things they were thankful for. I made Joshua write out the cover and a few of the pages inside (Ich bin dankbar fur...) but I did Lukas' entire book for him, making sure to draw things he would be able to recognize and actually say. It is cute to watch him read his book. Abigail, I'm pretty sure, drew about 2 pages and then decided she was done. That's my Abby!
I printed out some coloring pages off the internet of various Thanksgiving things. This was supposed to keep them entertained on Thanksgiving Day when we would all be busy in the kitchen. I think we forgot about them.
On Thanksgiving Day my mom, who was in town to help out with the kids and the new baby, actually did all the work. Just like the good ol days, huh? It was fantastically delicious. Everything was. Absolutely fantastic. We got around to husking and shelling some of our walnuts. It took Bob and Derek maybe two hours to fill this jar. I have a feeling we may not get through the 10 or so big boxes full of walnuts in our garage this year. That's a lot of walnuts. (We may also decide that we don't need BOTH walnut trees eventually too. I would be ok with that.)
Here is our dinner. Fantastic.
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