1) Let the kids feather the turkey! Put up a picture or printout of a turkey, cut out some 'feathers' and each day before Thanksgiving, remind the kiddies to write down what they are thankful for on a feather so they can 'feather the turkey'.
2)Each shopping trip, from now until Thanksgiving, have your child/children pick out one item of food to put up and donate to your local shelter or food bank.
3)The day before Thanksgiving, pull out an old white table cloth or flat sheet. Give all the children washable markers and allow them to write about what they are thankful for on the table cloth OR draw pictures. You'll know right where they are while you are trying to cook!
4)After the Thanksgiving meal, decorate an outdoor 'Thankful for Wildlife Tree'. String popcorn-dried cereal-cranberries, roll pine cones in peanut butter then birdseed, you could do the same thing with stale bagels, use your imagination!
5)Check out library books about the first Thanksgiving and the Pilgrims. We have loved a book called 'Cranberry Thanksgiving'.
6)Start a prayer list for a 'blessings' for friends and family members, especially those who may be without a loved one this year due to loss or military.
7)James 1:27 Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.
Use this time to visit those who may not have family. Bake them cookies, draw them pictures, or make them Thanksgiving cards.
8)Begin making homemade decorations for your Thanksgiving dinner. Place-mats, napkin rings, centerpiece, etc.
9)Bake something for your neighbors. Let kids decorate cookies with Thanksgiving colored icing, sprinkles, etc. Or you bake and they make a card.
10) Encourage kids to come up with ways to bless those that they are thankful for. Perhaps do special favors for siblings.
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