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.:)