Thanksgiving crafts

Doing the turkey craft the other day made me realize that didn't understand WHY we were doing "turkey" crafts and why we even eat turkey. So I went ahead and pulled out my Thanksgiving books and started googling Thanksgiving crafts. I found the best blog too in my process.

http://jennwa.blogspot.com/

I found several crafts to use this week. First we started with learning something about the Mayflower and did a craft to follow. The first day I tried to ask Reese what the ship was called and she answer "the manger" :) But she now knows what its called. I think :)


We made pilgrim faces out of paper plates and read several books. One is called Samuel Eaton's Day. Its about the life of a pilgrim child. Real pictures. We loved it.


Then today we did Indian crafts. Again looked at books with real pictures and the girls wanted to have braids and pretended to be Indians. We popped popcorn and put it in bags with a small amount of paint, shook it up and glued it down on the paper bag. It was colorful Indian corn. The girls were so quiet while gluing the corn down. Reese glued hers into a circle and filled the middle, carefully choosing each piece and picking the right spot. Saige did a few one a time, then grabbed a fist full and just slammed it on the table. She then tried eating the painted popcorn. Gross. Her mouth was orange. Gotta love 2 year olds.





Then we made tiny Indian headbands. We cut a toilet paper roll and painted it. The girls both wanted pink feathers. Go figure!




Happy Thanksgiving!!