Thankful Bunting

I love getting my boys in a thankful spirit during the month of November.  It's fun to have a visual reminder throughout the month.  One way to do that is a "Thankful Bunting."  I used the free printables from Jones Design Company to make this one.  I also added a little vinyl above it that I cut with my silhouette.

I love to see what my boys are most grateful  for . . . and their artwork that goes along with it!

We hung our bunting at the foot of the stairs so that we could see it every time we came downstairs.  I hung our cards on bakers twine with tiny clothespins.  I would love for you to share how you show thanks in your family!

Felt turkeys

I was working on some felt and sewing projects one day (which maybe I'll find the time to post about!) and realized that Mr. A needed some attention.  Since my felt stash was already out I decided we could make something super quick to keep him busy.  I remembered seeing this idea and used it as inspiration for these felt turkeys.

I used a bowl to trace the bodies and A's foot to trace the heads but everything else is free handed.  Mr. A had a great time helping me pick out the colors and we later made some pirate patches as well.  When the big boys came home from school they had so much fun putting these turkeys together. 

We are traveling out to Amy's house for Thanksgiving this year (we're finally close enough to drive!) and I'm going to add a few more disguises and bring these guys along with us.  I'd love to see what disguises you come up with for your turkeys!

Don't Eat Tom Turkey

Last year I found this fun little Thanksgiving game over at This Little Project. Initially, I wasn't sure how fun it would be, but we ended up having a blast playing it. My daughter couldn't get enough of Don't Eat Tom Turkey. It kept us busy while we patiently waited for Thanksgiving dinner to be ready. We'll definitely be playing it again this year.

Click HERE for instructions to play and to download the game.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Give that turkey a hand (and a foot)

The boys and I had a fun time with this simple craft. All you need is some construction paper, a pencil, glue stick, scissors and some googly eyes. First we traced our feet onto brown paper and our hands onto colored paper. After cutting those out we glued the hand on the back as feathers and added a small beak, gobble (what is that thing called anyway?) and some eyes. So, so fun. So, so simple.

Turkey Hand Prints

My daughter picked up the book "Hands Down: Counting by Fives" by Michael Dahl from our library.

She loved all the fun pictures made from hand prints.

We decided to try our own.

I thought the easiest way to do this was to just have my daughter paint her own hand. She thought it was great. She did both her left and right hands and then added the beak, gobbler, eye, and feet once it was dry.

Oreo Turkeys

Hopefully you still have some Halloween candy left over. This fun little food craft will help you use up some of those candy corns that no one really likes to eat anyway.


To make:

Use an Oreo for the body and wedge candy corns in between the two cookie pieces for your feathers. For the face you can use a Whopper or Milk Dud. I used a small amount of frosting to help the Milk Dud stick to the Oreo and I also used the frosting for eyes and to stick the "beak" onto the turkey's face.

Eat. Enjoy.

Festive Silhouettes

I found this project on a new site called Bloom. (Which I happen to love by the way.) It was so easy and so fun that I'm thinking of making some Thanksgiving ones as well. The directions are all right here.

*Here is where I got my witch.

*And my Thanksgiving silhouettes? Here.