Thanksgiving

Get ready to giggle over the gobbler with these 25 Would You Rather Questions for Kids! They’re great conversation starters!

It’s time to play the Thanksgiving Virtual Escape Room! Thanksgiving Digital Escape Room We love Thanksgiving and we love virtual escape rooms when distance learning or hanging out on Zoom with family and friends. So, it only made sense that a Thanksgiving Virtual Escape Room be on our agenda this year! You can use it …

Whether you’re looking for a Thanksgiving science lesson or just need some animal science facts, check out these interesting and fun facts about turkeys! Interesting Facts About Turkeys You may be familiar with turkeys as the famous Thanksgiving Day bird, but there is so much more to them than that!  Other than being raised to …

Sometimes what we think we know and what actually happened are two different things. Check out these Thanksgiving Facts to see if you get them right! Thanksgiving Facts We celebrate Thanksgiving every year on the fourth Thursday of November to give thanks and gratitude.  What else do we know about this holiday of gratefulness?  Check …

Some of my earliest Thanksgiving memories are from sitting quietly coloring a Thanksgiving coloring page or playing while watching The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. ​ We’d pick up my elderly Aunt Caroline (I’m still not entirely sure how we were related) in the morning and then the rest of the day would be spent in Macy’s and …

With Thanksgiving mere weeks away, it’s time to get started on plans for your holiday celebration. If you’re hosting, you have a lot on your plate – literally and figuratively! You might be planning to all of the cooking on your own or you may have several friends and family members contributing to the meal. …

These leftover turkey recipes are perfect for after the holidays or anytime turkey is served! By the end of the Thanksgiving weekend, you’ll have had enough turkey to last you at least a month. Instead of settling for plain, leftover turkey, whip up some of these delicious and easy leftover turkey recipes. What are some …

Thanksgiving can easily get lost in the hustle and bustle of the holiday season. With consumerism the focus on television and online, it’s no wonder that kids have a hard time distinguishing what they should be thankful for and what they want vs. need. This quick and easy Thanksgiving craft for kids gets them thinking …

This slow cooker scalloped potatoes recipe is so easy it’s hard to mess up! About a decade ago, I ruined Thanksgiving dinner by making mashed potatoes that were thicker than drywall spackle. Seriously, they could have been packaged and sold as a home repair product. They were that bad. Since then, I’ve been banned from …

This easy rice pilaf recipe is the perfect side for holiday dinners or any time of year. Rice has always been my nemesis. That and hardboiled eggs…I can never seem to get either of them right. But this rice pilaf recipe? I rock at it! It’s fancy enough to be appropriate for a Thanksgiving or …

I love shopping after the holidays, because they always have their themed merchandise on sale.  My latest finds have been the adorable square tissue boxes that had a slightly Halloween theme…really, they just had some orange in them.  At 75% off, I quick snatched them up.  And what is one to do with a slightly …

Fall is finally here and you know what that means… it’s time for turkey crafts! To celebrate the beautiful changing of the seasons and to give a little homage to the great bird that represents Thanksgiving at the same time, gather the kids and make a few turkey crafts with the help of good old …

My mom was a genius at giving us crafts to do in preparation for holidays and Thanksgiving was no exception.  I remember creating little tent place cards for everyone who would be coming for Thanksgiving dinner and I could not waitfor the guests to arrive so I could show them my creations.  This year my own …

Ah, fall.  The leaves are changing, the crisp autumn air drifts through the windows, and quick kids’ crafts are just what your fall afternoon is calling for.  Take a walk, gather up some pinecones, and get to work creating some easy and decorative painted pinecones. If you are taking a Montessori homeschool or preschool approach, this painted …

Two of my three kids love to do word search puzzles. Themed word search puzzles? Even better! So, this Thanksgiving it’s time to break out a brand new printable Thanksgiving word search that will keep them hunting for words! ​ Thanksgiving Word Search Word searches aren’t just fun activities to pass the time or keep …

It is almost time to baste our turkeys and dig into some serious pumpkin pie. I am like a kid in the candy store on Thanksgiving, because it is the one holiday that hasn’t been hijacked. Halloween is all about the candy, and Christmas is all about the presents, but Thanksgiving? Thanksgiving is all about the food …

As any mama of boys knows, boys play differently, act differently, and are just plain different than girls. When I brought up Thanksgiving with my tween-age sons, we launched into a discussion about Native Americans and Pilgrims. Naturally, their boy brains went straight to arrows and bows. While I put a firm foot down on …

There’s nothing quite like the taste of old-fashioned bread stuffing on Thanksgiving. This easy bread stuffing recipe captures that flavor and adds a delicate new twist. Must-Try Bread Stuffing There’s nothing quite like the taste of an old-fashioned bread stuffing recipe on Thanksgiving. It reminders me of stuffing that my grandmothers used to make and …

As we were whipping up the Thanksgiving Turkey Tissue Boxes the other day, we were left with a bunch of leftover turkey…of the construction paper kind, of course. So, what do homeschool moms do when faced with potential construction paper scraps? That’s right! We turn them into a learning activity. Here are four ways to turn your …

Use those leftovers up with these Thanksgiving leftover recipes that are almost better than the original meal! In an effort to hold off the crazy that comes with the holidays, I wanted to be sure I had a collection of leftover turkey recipes to hold us through the days after Thanksgiving. The 18 recipes below …