Preschool Thanksgiving Feast

My little Emma turns 3 tomorrow!  We celebrated her birthday today in preschool.

We played some fun Thanksgiving games before our feast.  This game is called, Roll a Thanksgiving Dinner.  Students roll a food cube and if they have that food on their plate they cover it with the matching food card. 

 

Emma was so excited she finished her Thanksgiving dinner first.

 



 Next up was Pin the Hat on the Turkey.  The girls loved this game, but I think they may have peeked.;)

 

 

While I prepped the food the girls colored their placemat.  Download the placemat HERE.

 



Then the girls helped me set the table.  They passed out the plates, napkins and forks.

 



 

 They wore a little pilgrim outfit during the feast.  So cute!

 

 We had olives, pickles, popcorn, cheese, pretzels, turkey, marshmallows, rolls and pumpkin pie.  Note to self: never have that much food for two little girls.  I guess I am use to 20 plus students.:)  These two cuties are always asking for more snack, but today they barely ate anything.  Each of them had leftovers to take home.

 

 

After free play we played, Turkey's Colorful Feathers.  We have been working on colors so this game was perfect for them.  To play, each student spins the paper clip on the spinner.  They identify the color the paperclip lands on and takes that color feather.  I had each girl spin 5 times. 

  

We went back to the table and glued the feathers onto our turkey.  When their turkey was complete, I pointed to each feather and had them tell me the color.  I wish I took a picture of the completed turkeys they turned out really cute.  I will try to put all of the games we played together and put it in my TPT store so you can play them with your class or family. 

 

2 Thanksgiving feasts done, 1 birthday party to go.  I will make sure to post pictures of Emma's 3rd birthday party.  Have a great day!

Thanksgiving Feast with Activity Day Girls

We moved into a new town home in April of this year.  A few months later they put me into Activity Days in our new ward.  I love working with the 8 and 9 year old girls!  We have an activity 2 times a month.  One activity is at my home and the other at the other leaders home.  When activity days rolls around each month my family is so wonderful to help get everything set-up.   

 

Emma loves to help with everything.  This was a perfect job for her, putting clementines into a basket for the centerpiece.

 

Even the boys were helping out.

I wanted to give the girls something little to tell them I am thankful to be one of their Activity Day leaders.  I decided to make a Thanksgiving trail mix.  All you need is pretzels, Swedish fish, Cheerios, M & M's and candy corn.  When I taught Kindergarten I would put all of the ingredients into a gallon sized Ziploc bag and have the students help me mix up the trail mix.  They loved it!

 



 

Emma had to help with this as well.:)  I love this little girl. 

 



 

When it was all mixed up I put a few scoops of the trail mix in a Ziploc baggie.

 

 My mom found these cute brown bags at the Target $ section.  I put the baggie in the brown paper bag.

 

Here are the completed trail mix bags for each girl.  We found the idea for the tag on the bag from Marci Coombs.  It worked perfectly for my Activity Day girls.

I made a placemat for the girls to work on while we were waiting for the feast to begin.  Click HERE if you would like a copy of this placemat for your Thanksgiving feast.

 

 

I love the way the table turned out.  I made place cards so the girls knew where to sit.  The leaf confetti and corn in the basket came from Hobby Lobby.  All of the fall things there are 80% off.    

 I love a good deal.:)

 

Adam was all ready for the Thanksgiving Feast to start.

 Emma was hard at work on her placemat before the feast.

 

 I am so thankful I have this sweet girl in my life.  She is my little buddy!



 

At the last activity I gave them a note asking them to bring a certain food item for our feast.  Some of the foods we had were: carrots, celery, olives, ranch dip, popcorn, rolls, mini marshmallows, pickles, grapes, cheese, apples, bananas, cookies, and pumpkin pie.  We talked about table manners before we had our feast.  

 

After the feast the girls wrote things they are thankful for from A to Z.  I was really impressed with the girls.  They were trying to think of things for every letter.  Click HERE if you would like to have a copy of the I Am Thankful A to Z page.







Then we made this cute thankful turkey.  I cut out the box, turkey, and feathers on my silhouette machine.   The students can put out the turkey for the month of November and strips of paper.  Family members can write something they are thankful for on a strip of paper anytime they would like during the month of November.  They will place the paper in the turkey box.  When Thanksgiving day comes they can read what everyone is thankful for before or after dinner.  The turkey also makes a cute decoration.:)

 

The finished turkeys.

The girls went home with these things.  It was a great activity!  I can't wait for the next one.:)

Catch Up

 

Oh my!  I can't believe how long it has been since I last posted.  Let's go back to December 2014.  I had a little boy.  He has been an absolute joy.  He is a mommy's boy.  I love him so much!  He will be 1 on December 17th.  Where does the time go?

 

 

 When I came back to teaching, after my maternity leave, my amazing Kindergarten team had all of the students write their names on a Welcome Back sign and they left me gifts.  I felt so loved!  It really made my day. 

 

 While on maternity leave I made the decision to not teach this year.  It was a really hard decision because I love teaching Kindergarten!  I will always have a special place in my heart for K.  I would love to go back one day, but for right now I know that I need to stay home with my sweet kids.  I think they are enjoying having me home every day just as much as I love being with them. 

 

My beautiful sister RuthAnne got married in July.  She had an amazing wedding reception.  She had a donut, soda, and candy bar.  I helped her with all of the chalkboard signs.  It was a lot of fun to help her make her wedding plans come to life!  At the same time I was helping her with all of the signs I was trying to finish up the school year, and move everything out of my classroom.  It was crazy, but everything worked out. 

My family

 

 Us with the bride and groom

 



 

My sister just started a blog.  Make sure to check it out here.  She is so talented and I have a feeling she is going to be a much better blogger than I am.;)

 

In September I started preschool with my daughter and my cousins daughter.  I am so glad that I can continue teaching!  I hope to have more students as soon as we finish our basement.  I will make sure to post more of our adventures in preschool soon. 

 

Thank you so much for reading!  Have a great day.:)