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Easy Thanksgiving Cookies:
Makes 16 cookies
Ingredients
1 (16.5
ounce) package Pills-
bury® refrigerated sugar cook-
ies
1 (16
ounce) container white or
chocolate creamy frosting
1
Candy corn
1
Orange decorating icing
1
White decorating gel
1
Miniature candy-coated chocolate baking bits
Preparation
1.
Heat oven to 350°F. Bake cookies as directed on roll.
Cool completely, about 20 minutes.
2.
Spoon white or chocolate frosting into resealable food-
storage plastic bag; seal bag. Cut small hole in bottom cor-
ner of bag. On each cookie, pipe frosting on outer edge of
half of cookie. Arrange candy corn over frosting for feath-
ers.
3.
Pipe orange icing onto each cookie to resemble turkey
face and/or feet. Use white or orange icing to attach bak-
ing bits to turkey face for eyes and draw mouth.
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to teach your kids about being
thankful. Here are some ideas to teach your children how to appre-
ciate the blessings in their lives.
Giving Thanks Placemats:
The goal of this craft is to create a
collage filled with drawings and pic-
tures of all the things your children
are thankful for. Cut photos from
magazines, or print some photos
from your computer. Older children
can write captions under the photos
or draw their own. Be sure to put the child’s name and the year on
it. If you make this collage from two standard letter size pieces of
construction paper taped side-by-side, you can take the completed
collage to a copy shop when you’re done and have it laminated. It
then becomes a placemat that you can use every Thanksgiving for
years to come.
Thankful Paper Chain:
Another way to remind your children
of their blessings is to create a paper
chain. This is similar to a regular
paper chain – where you cut strips of
paper and connect them together as
loops, but there’s one difference.
You write on the strips of paper be-
fore you connect them. Write the things you are thankful for with
your children. For instance, “Grandma plays games with me” or
“
My teacher is nice.” The fun part of this activity is to make the
chain as long as possible – showing all your blessings. If you’d like
to keep this up during Christmas, just use green and white paper.
Thanksgiving Tree:
This is another take on the idea above
and works really well if you have sev-
eral kids in the family. Get each child
to trace their hand on yellow, red, or
brown construction paper. Cut out
the hand shapes and write (or have
the child write) what they are thankful
for on the hand shape. Cut a tree
trunk shape out of brown construc-
tion paper. Glue it on a large piece of
poster board. Let the kids add their hand shapes as leaves above
the tree trunk, turning it into a beautiful fall colored tree.
Thankful Book:
This idea is similar to the others,
except it’s more of a keepsake.
Purchase a photo album or
scrapbook kit and make a
“
blessings” theme. Add photos
of loved ones, including stories
about why they are special to
you. Also, include pages of your favorite foods, favorite stories,
favorite movies and all the other things that make you happy.
Any time your kids feel down, you can open your blessing book
to see all the reasons you have to be happy – and thankful for the
blessings in your life.
For more Thanksgiving ideas, go to From the Apples4theteach-
er.com website:
Teaching Kids to Be Thankful: Crafts from Apples 4 the Teacher
