Thanksgiving Games

Here a few Thanksgiving games I put together. I won't be posting a Thanksgiving Day lesson plan because:
#1. There will be millions created by other people (why recreate the wheel, right?)
#2. I already have some activities I am doing with the girls.

I did, however, put together a few easy games if anyone is interested.
I love this activity from Family Fun, so I modified it using turkeys rather than squirrels.

Turkey Hide and Seek/Memory

Turkey Bingo Game

Don't Eat Tom 

I'm having trouble with this link. I'll try to fix it later.
*Edit* I can't get the Don't Eat Tom game to upload completely. If you'd like a copy, I can email it to you.

2010 Family Halloween Dinner

We celebrated Halloween with our traditional holiday dinner. This year we themed it around monsters. The girls helped me make the decorations and everyone helped with the food. The most fun was monster mashing in our monster feet.

Favorite things: 

The Watermelon Monster

Monster Sandwiches eating the carrots

Eyeballs in our soup

Our pom pom monster garland

Great dance moves!

Monster Lesson Plan

It's been a long week and I am so tired, but I had to get these on here. Next week we're learning about Monsters in preparation for our annual family Halloween dinner which happens to be Monster themed this year. I haven't had a lot of prep/planning time, but I still feel like there are some great activities. Hope you are able to enjoy some of them.

Lesson Plan

Songs

Alike/Different Literacy Activity

Monster Say and Clap

Eyeball Sorting/Match

Math Clipart

 Slime Recipe

Halloween Costumes

These took me all week, but I finally finished the girls Sleeping Beauty Fairy costumes.

Halloween Lesson Plan

I'm doing a Halloween theme next week. Here's my plan and printables. 

Lesson Plan

Songs, Finger plays, Etc

12 Days of Halloween

5 Little Pumpkins

Puzzles

Pumpkin Sort

Spider Grid Game

"th" Ghost Game

Pumpkin Patch Book

Ghost Fliers

Witches' Stew

Happy Halloween!

Preschool Next Week

I have been on the waiting list at the library for this book:

Hooray, it finally came in! So this week we are going to use the activities at 

ONE OF MY FAVORITE PLACES!

Go check them out. She always has amazing things to share.

Ocean Preschool Activities

Autumn may not be the time for an ocean preschool lesson in Utah, but I wanted to do it before next Spring and the weather is still warm enough to go outside. My sister-in-law made the plan so this week I just came up with a few extra activities to go with it.

Ocean Letter Match

Build a Crab game

Number Spelling Cards

Ocean Spell Match

Ocean Animal Race

Witches Britches

I finished the girls "Witches Britches" (aka bloomers, pajama pants, Hammer pants made with Halloween fabric) just in time for their witch party tomorrow. Luckily, my mom taught me how to make cotton shorts back in the early 90's because I made these without a pattern. I also didn't hem them because I was going for a rough "witchy" look. At the last minute I decided to sew on ribbons so we could tie plastic spiders onto them. Pretty spooky!

Cowgirl Chaps

I finished the girls chaps just in time for the party. I would love to have a tutorial for you because they are so easy to make, but at this point of my life, I am lucky just to get them made. They are cute, though. I especially love the back view with Lucy's skirt hanging out. Can you wear skirts with chaps?

Cowboy and Cowgirl Party

This weekend we had a combined birthday party for Brigham and Charlotte. It was a lot of fun to plan and get ready for, but it was a lot of work (and my last dinner birthday party:).

For Brigham's birthday, my theme was "Pardners". I made a craft paper banner printed with the word "PARDNERS" on it. One pennant said "Through the..." and the other pennants had opposites like "ups and downs", "rich and poor". I gave Brigham a small gift that represented each of the ways we are "pardners".

Here are a few pictures of the "treat table" and banners. Those treat tables are so cute and popular right now, but after this party it made me wonder how many people in the world spend the weeks after the party eating all the candy that looked so cute but didn't get eaten. I'm getting a major head start on Halloween and the holiday sweet season.