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Thanksgiving ideas
By Robin

Here are some ideas:

We make individual cranberry breads. I find for my students, it is easiest to purchase the pre-made mixes from Betty Crocker that are available in the supermarkets. I invite moms in to run cooking groups
and the students get to measure and mix. The moms take the breads home to bake, and because we do them in the individual disposable tins, each child has the bread that he or she helped make. You can also do this with muffins. If you want to get really involved, you can do a bread or muffin recipe from scratch, but I find this works well for my kids.
For projects, we have made pinecone

turkeys where we have glued chenille bump pipe cleaners to the pine cone back for the tail, and wiggly eyes to the front. My favorite project though, is to take a pattern of a cornucopia and duplicate it for each child. Tape it to a 9 X 12 sheet of tagboard, and cover the pattern with Saran Wrap. Children color the Saran Wrap covered pattern with permanent markers. When you are done, carefully remove the Saran Wrap and set it aside. Scrunch up enough tin foil to cover the oak tag. Tape the foil onto the oaktag and then tape the colored Saran Wrap pattern on top. It looks just like stained glass.

Finally, for our party, we have a "finger food feast". Each child signs up for a small healthy snack: carrot sticks, string cheese, fruit etc. We have a buffet where each child can take what they would like. The kids really enjoy it, and it avoids a lot of the sugar.