Thanksgiving ABC Book

I found this cute ABCs of Thanksgiving pdf printable over at This Reading Mama.

I printed out the one with writing lines for my kindergartner and the one for strictly drawing for my three year old.

There's a coloring page for each letter of the alphabet.  I printed the pages on copy paper then stapled them inside a 12 x 18 sheet of construction paper.  Then I glued on her cover printable to the front of each.

We started on November 1st and went through the end of the month writing one thing each day, starting with the particular letter, that they were thankful for.  It was a fun, easy activity.  Thanks for the cute printable!

One day he was thankful for m&ms.

She was thankful for me.  Looks just like me, right?  

Thanksgiving Table

I hosted my first Thanksgiving dinner this year now that we don't live close to family. I found out that we were going to do it at our house about a week before so I threw together what I had. I had this wicker cornucopia from last year so I bought a couple of glittery picks and arranged the inside. Then I spray painted my mini pumpkins left from Halloween, some large acorns and some pinecones from the yard gold and added them to it. I added some gold votives and called it good.

Thankful Tree

I've seen many versions of this all over the blogsphere and I made my own this year. I cut off some branches from a tree outside, stuck them into floral foam, put them into a vase I had leftover from an old flower delivery and covered the foam up with pinto beans. Then I dug into my scrap paper box and pulled out fall colors. We spent and evening cutting out leaves and punching holes in them. Then each night, starting November 1st, we each wrote down what we are thankful for on a leaf and tied it to the tree with twine. At the end of the month we took them all off and re-read them and talked about how many blessings we have in our lives. I put it away for next year but think it will be a wonderful tradition to do each November. Some of the things that got written down included Elmo, our Savior, food, employment, self-healing bodies, toys, tortilla soup, our family and many more. Here is our tree after the first week. It ended up much more full but I forgot to take a final picture. The best part about this project, I didn't spend a dime. I had everything on hand already. Those are the best kinds of crafts!

Thanksgiving Crafts

My son and I did several thanksgiving crafts in November. We gathered leaves and glued them on paper and made turkeys.
One day we made handprint turkeys.
Another day we gathered leaves and did leaf rubbings.
Last we made more handprint turkeys on cards to send out to our family. On some that were sent to just kids, all I wrote was "Gobble, gobble gobble" over and over and filled the card up with gobbles. I'm sure they got a few laughs out of those ones. He loved painting his hand.
He made this turkey headband in our co-op preschool group.