Theme: Thanksgiving
Honey Pot is 2 years and 6 months old
Magnetic Pom Poms
We haven’t done this fun activity in so long. I found the
free printable from DLTK. Honey Pot had so much fun with this! She placed the
turkey’s feathers so meticulously into the circles. And when she had finished,
she took them all off and did it again!
Then we made a pattern too!
Alphabet Turkey
This activity also comes from DLTK. Honey Pot can use some
alphabet practice, so I thought this would be a fun for her. First she glued the turkey together.
Then I wrote the letters of the alphabet into each space so that it could be a matching activity. She enjoyed matching and gluing the letters for a little while. We came back to it often throughout the week until it was finished!
Thanksgiving Bingo
DLTK also has these customizable Bingo generators! You can
choose your theme, your size, even the letters on top. So I created a small
Thanksgiving Bingo game and we played this at our first ever Family Game Night!
Honey Pot is still quite young for real board games, but
this was a nice introduction. First I punched out some circles from scrap paper (in Thanksgiving colors) to use as
markers.
We had Honey Pot choose each picture from a bowl, and then
asked if it matched any of the pictures on her card.
She did pretty well with this. She was winning all by
herself, but starting to lose interest toward the end. So we cheated a bit and
rigged it so her final picture was drawn next. She was so excited to fill her
last space!
Fist bump with Daddy to celebrate her victory!
Scented Turkey Hand-Print
I found this idea at Preschool Daze. What a nice twist on
the usual hand-print craft. This one is scented with Pumpkin Pie Spice! First I
mixed together some brown and orange paint to get a good turkey color, and then
I had Honey Pot sprinkle on some spice.
We painted her hand, and made one nice print. Then I allowed
her to paint her hand and do several other prints for fun. It smelled lovely!
She even dug both hands in and smeared it around like a sensory bin.
I cut out the first hand-print, but noticed that the paint
smell was pretty overpowering. So I sprinkled a really lot of pumpkin pie spice
on top of it. Finally, it was just right. I then added a couple features with
markers. Here is the final product!
Thankful Tree
There are so many thankful trees out there. I wanted a
simple one to print out, and I found such a cute one from a blog called Love The Day. Throughout our Thanksgiving theme week, I talked to Honey Pot about
what it means to be thankful and offered some examples. I asked her probably
daily if she could think of anything for which she is thankful. Here is the
list she had by the end of the week:
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Cookie Monster and Elmo
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Grams and Pops
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My toys
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My room
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My house
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My family
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My nose
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My mouth
Some pretty unique choices! Instead of making another glue
craft of this I simply attached a piece of con-tact paper, sticky side out, to
her felt board. And she placed the leaves on the tree by herself.
I love how this came out!
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