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Thanksgiving Place Cards

This year, my mom tasked the kids and I with making place cards for our family for Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to do something the kids could help with that incorporated the purpose of Thanksgiving: gratitude! These turkey gratitude cards fit all requirements.

Teaching Children Gratitude during Thanksgiving

In a society that’s moving more and more toward a sense of entitlement and instant gratification it’s so important to really celebrate Thanksgiving and gratitude. We’ve really tried to emphasize the holiday in our home this year. I know it’s only a week until Turkey Day, but it’s not too late!!! Here are just a few ideas of ways you can help your children think about gratitude this Thanksgiving season.

Pumpkin Roll – Step by Step

While I love pumpkin pie, pecan pie, and sweet potato anything, my favorite of all the Fall/Thanksgiving treats is a pumpkin roll. It has all the deliciousness of a cake, but there is frosting in every bite. And I’m a firm believer that most solid food is simply a vehicle for frosting. I know for…

Orange and Cinnamon Rolls

Whenever we make Parker House rolls in my family, we do something special with the scraps. Rather than make more savory rolls, our family makes sweet rolls in cinnamon and orange.

How to Roll your Rolls

Rather than make the standard rolled-into-a-ball rolls, we like to try different things. Learn to make crescent, clover and Parker House rolls using any basic roll recipe.

Hand and Foot Turkeys

This weekend my aunt helped my kids make Thanksgiving turkeys using tracings of their hands and feet. Not only is this a great Thanksgiving craft, but I now have tracings of my kids’ hands and feet and their current ages. Priceless!!

Thanksgiving Leftovers

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m taking the weekend off to spend with my family, but I’ll be back next week with more posts. In the meantime, check out these ideas from the great chefs of the Food Network on what to do with all those Thanksgiving leftovers. …

Thanksgiving Treat: Turkey Cookies

Make Thanksgiving turkey cookies easy enough for kids and delicious enough for everyone!

Thanksgiving Craft: Gratitude Tree

My son loves Halloween. November 1st is the saddest day of the year for him because we pack away the pumpkins, bats and ghosts for a year. To appease him a bit, we always make a gratitude tree to warm him up to the idea that Thanksgiving can be just as exciting as Halloween. The…