Thanksgiving Feast
On Thanksgiving Day, let children help you with the food preparations. Read some books about the kinds of food that were eaten on the first Thanksgiving Day.
Make Place Cards for the dinner Table and set the table. Make sure to include a decorative centerpiece, maybe something the child has made this week, like the Good Deed Turkey.
Make Butter
Talk about how Pilgrims and Indians did not have a grocery store to buy butter. They made it from the cream that came from milking the cows. Give each child a baby food jar filled half full with whipping cream. Have them shake it until butter forms. Add salt. Use the butter on corn bread or rolls for the Thanksgiving feast.
Thanksgiving Plates
On a paper plate, let your child glue pre-cut pictures of food (or color in their own food) in anticipation of the upcoming feast. Plan out what he will eat for Thanksgiving.
Sing
Thanksgiving Time (Farmer in the Dell)
Thanksgiving time is here,
Let's give a great big cheer,
For food and friends and family,
Thanksgiving time is here.
Let's be Thankful for this Day
(tune of "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star")
Let's be thankful for this day,
For our friends and our play.
Let's be thankful, let's be glad,
For our food and the things we have.
Let's give thanks for you and me,
And our home and family.
At the Thanksgiving Feast, go around the table and have everyone say what they are thankful for.
Pumpkin Pie
Paint a paper plate with orange
paint mixed with white glue.
Sprinkle with pumpkin pie spice
(or cinnamon & allspice).
Thanksgiving Easel Painting
Materials: - Paint (fall colors)
- Nutmeg
- Allspice
- Cinnamon
- Easel paper
- Sprinkle a different spice into each color of paint. As your children paint the spices will mix together to make a yummy pumpkin pie smell.
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