Mayflower Craft

Supplies:
• 1/2-gallon milk or juice carton
• X-acto knife
• Paper bag
• White glue
• 2 bamboo skewers
• 2 apples
• White paper
• Construction paper


Directions:
1. Close and tape shut the opening of a clean carton, then lay it on its side. Using an X-acto knife (a parent's job), cut out the side of the carton that's facing up.

2. Cut 1-inch strips from the paper bag, dip them into a glue mixture (made from 1 part white glue mixed with 4 parts water), and wrap the strips around the carton. Repeat until the carton is covered with paper bag panels.

3. Stick one skewer in each apple and attach white paper sails (made by cutting out large white triangles and then cutting the tops off them). Attach a flag over each sail. Set the skewered apples in the boat.

4. Invite your family and guests to write down on paper slips something they're thankful for, such as "I am thankful for Grandpa's homemade cranberry sauce." Fold and place the slips in the "Mayflower" for reading before your Thanksgiving feast.

Pine Cone Turkey Craft

Supplies:
• Nice plump pine cone
• Feathers (assorted colors)
• Brown, red, orange and yellow felt
• Goggley eyes
• Turkey pattern
• Scissors
• Glue

Directions:
1. Wash and dry pine cone if you picked it outside.
2. Cut out the turkey body pieces.
3. Glue head, eyes, nose, gobbler and feet on the pine cone.
4. Glue 4-7 Feathers on the top of the pine cone.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

INGREDIENTS
1 roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury® refrigerated sugar cookies
1 container (16 oz) chocolate creamy frosting
Candy corn
Orange decorating icing
Black decorating gel
Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits


DIRECTIONS
1. Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll. Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
2. Spoon chocolate frosting into resealable food-storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom corner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feathers.
3. Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey face and feet. Use orange icing to attach baking bits to turkey face for eyes. Pipe black gel on baking bits for centers of eyes.

Tree of Thanks

Supplies:
• Several colors of foam squares
• Tree pattern
• Leaf pattern
• Glue
• Permanent Marker

Directions:
Create this autumn tree of gratitude. Write something that you're thankful for on each leaf. Display your tree of thanks on your holiday table! Cut out the tree and the leaves. Ask you child what things they are thankful for and write them on each leaf. Then have your child glue the leaves to the tree.

Week 47: Thanksgiving!

*Suggested Reading*
The Very First Thanksgiving Day by Rhonda Gowler Greene
Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes
P is for Pilgrim: A Thanksgiving Alphabet by Carol Crane
Pilgrim's First Thanksgiving by Ann Mcgovern
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson


Items needed this week:
• 1/2-gallon milk or juice carton
• X-acto knife
• Paper bag
• 2 bamboo skewers
• 2 apples
• White paper
• Construction paper
• Nice plump pine cone
• Feathers (assorted colors)
• Brown, red, orange and yellow felt
• Goggley eyes
• Turkey pattern
• Scissors
• Glue
• One Roll (16.5 oz) Pillsbury refrigerated Sugar cookies
• One Container (16 oz) chocolate creamy frosting
• Candy Corn
• Orange Decorating Frosting
• Black Decorating Frosting
• Mini candy coated chocolate baking bits
• Several colors of foam squares
• Tree pattern
• Leaf pattern
• Glue
• Permanent Marker