Thanksgiving wreath

Supplies: Real fallen leaves, paper plate, glue, yarn, hole punch, raffia

How to: Cut out the center of the paper plate. Now paint or color the rest
of the plate red, orange, yellow, brown or a combination of those colors.
Punch a hole at the top of the plate and insert the yarn for hanging.
Glue the fallen leaves around the plate, overlapping if you wish. You
can also add a few small twigs acorns to the wreath.
Now add a raffia bow and attach to the wreath.
If you don't have real leaves, trace your
child(s) hand onto several sheets of fall colored construction paper.
Cut those out and use them as leaves on the wreath.

Pine Cone Turkeys

These will look so cute on your Thanksgiving table!

Supplies: feathers or felt, construction paper, glue, pine cone and marker

How to: Glue the feathers or felt cut into feather shapes onto the pine cone to make the tail. Then cut out construction paper into head and feet shapes, then glue to the pine cone. Add features with marker.

Thanksgiving dinner placemat

This one is simple but so cute!!

Supplies: small corn cobs shucked, dried or fresh, paint in fall colors, white construction paper

How to: Paint the corn with paint, then roll them on the paper to create a very cute placemat for dinner! Laminate them for safekeeping!

ds of the corn if you'd like to avoid messy hands.

Thanksgiving ideas

Here's a fun craft to make in time for Thanksgiving.
Supplies:
White paper, brown and other colors of paint, crayons, construction paper, glue or glue stick
How to:
Print this poem on the white sheet of paper:

This isn't just a turkey
As anyone can see
This very special turkey
Was by hand by ME!

Then have them sign the bottom and
THEN:
Paint the child's palm and thumb with the brown paint, then the other fingers with other colors, whatever they like. The colors are the feathers. Have them put their handprint on the paper with the poem. When it's dry, they can add the face and other features with pen or crayons. Mount it on a piece of construction paper with glue.
A very cute Thanksgiving craft!

Treat ideas for any occasion!

Check out these non-fishy sushi treats!!

Ingredients

1/4 cup butter
4 cups mini marshmallows
6 cups crisped rice cereal
20 to 25 gummy worms

OR Swedish fish for a different look!
1 to 2 boxes fruit leather

Directions

Grease a 12- by 17-inch baking sheet. Melt butter in a 2-quart saucepan over medium heat. Add the marshmallows and stir until smooth.

Remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the rice cereal until it's evenly coated. Turn the baking sheet so that the shorter ends are at the top and bottom. Then press the marshmallow mixture onto the sheet, distributing it evenly.

Starting at one side an inch up from the lower edge, place gummy worms atop the mixture end to end in a hortizontal line. Gently roll the lower edge of the marshmallow mixture over the gummy worms.

Then stop and cut the log away from the rest of the mixture. Use the same method to form 4 more logs. Slice each log into 1-inch-thick "sushi" rolls and wrap them individually with a strip of fruit leather.

Makes 4 to 5 dozen.

Girl Scout, Brownie and VBS crafts

Here's an easy one to make and fun to use too! It's a Boo Boo Bunny, made out of a washcloth and a couple other things. Put your finger through the hole or an ice cub to soothe someone special's boo boo!


CRAFT MATERIALS:
Washcloth (a baby sized washcloth works great)
Rubber band and ribbon
Glue
Googly eyes
Small pom-pom
Large pom-pom

1. First, place the washcloth on a tabletop and evenly roll two diagonally opposite corners toward the middle. Fold the rolled washcloth in half so both sides are even.
2. Fold the cloth in half again and wrap the rubber band around the second fold to form the bunny's head. Gently pull apart the rolled ends that extend above the rubber band so that they resemble rabbit ears.
3. Next, decorate the face by gluing the googly eyes onto the face and the small pom-pom for a nose. Glue the large pom-pom onto the back of the original fold to serve as a cottony tail, and the bunny is finished. Just be careful that a baby doesn't get it and ingest the eyes or pompoms.

Another good one that my kids and I STILL do...

a bracelet or ankle bracelet made from fishing supplies.

You need a pair of need nosed pliers, some tiny seed beads, and fishing fasteners.

You can thread the beads on the fishing fasteners, then connect them all together in a circle. Very easy!!

For more ideas.... check out www.crayola.com

Games for older kids

Obviously, you want games to fit the ages of your class.

Here's a fun calculator game that will challenge those smart alec older kids!
You'll need a calculator.
The trick is, when the calculator is turned upside down, the numbers look like letters.

So on a normal calculator, the digit 0 becomes O, 1 becomes I, 2 becomes Z, 3 becomes E, 4 becomes h, 5 becomes S, 6 becomes g, 7 becomes L, 8 becomes B, and 9 becomes G.
Of course, turning the calculator upside down also reverses the digits, so 1234 would be hEZI, not IZEh. With a little effort, one can easily find numbers that correspond to words.
We spelled out my daughter's name Elise easily. Kids love to figure out their own!

For example, do you want your calculator to be more friendly?
Try this calculation :
enter 6.2
multiply this by itself
add 0.23
divide by 50
turn the calculator upside down, and you have a friendly greeting!

Or what about a nice breakfast? Try this :
multiply 17 by 2
multiply by 1000
divide by 6
throw away the part to the right of the decimal
subtract 3

These are more advanced, for more advanced calculators.
Now some questions for animal lovers :
Does the ( 19 + 19 - 1 ) x 19 + 2 x 3 x 5 have (47 x 47 + 10 x 10 ) x 5 x 5 - 3 x 3 or (47 x 10 + 47 x 10 + 47 x 10 + 47 x 10 - 1) x 3 ?
or lay 7 x (800 + 9)?

What about the 2 x 13 x 13 ? Or the 3 x 3 x 3 x 3 x 101 - 3000?
The (50 x 50 x 3 + 1) x 6 - (50 x 50 x 4)? (Of course, the plural of (50 x 50 x 3 + 1) x 6 - (50 x 50 x 4) is (8 - 1) x 8 x ( 8 x ( 8 x (8 + 1 + 1) - 1 ) - 1 ), isn't it.)

Let the kids experiment with their calculators, to come up with a formula for the words they're looking for, it will keep them occupied for long periods of time!