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Hey, guess what. It’s almost Thanksgiving. (Or Thanksgiving was three days ago by the time you read this, but whatever.) Today I sat the kids down to make a Thankfulness Craft, because why not commemorate our annual thankfulness with construction paper, right? Right.
So I gave each kid three pieces of paper in assorted colors, along with markers and crayons and pencils and whatnot. The idea was to draw things they were thankful for, and then we’d assemble them into a book. But to keep the showing of toys to a minimum, I told them that one page was for Something You Can Hold, one page was for Something You Can’t Hold, and one page was for Something Alive.
I was careful not to offer suggestions—in order not to influence the creative and thankful processes, of course—but certainly I imagined Mommy might be making an appearance on the Something Alive pages. Or maybe they’d draw Sadie, or our whole family. I could caption the drawings “We’re thankful for each other,” or something equally sappy.
Well, the anti-sentimental among us need not despair. Not one human appears in our thankfulness book. Right now it looks like this:
Title page: “Our Thankfulness Book, by Abigail, Owen, and Audrey.”
Audrey’s page: Abstract art, with the caption “Audrey is thankful.”
Owen’s Something Alive page: A turkey. Owen is thankful for poultry.
Owen’s Something You Can Hold page: Another turkey. Owen is very, very thankful for poultry. Though obviously he’s never been close enough to a bird to try to pick one up.
Owen’s Something You Can’t Hold page: God. Who made the turkeys.
Abigail’s Something Alive page: A turkey. Have I mentioned we’re vegetarian? They’re not even going to eat turkey. Nor have they ever seen a turkey. I don’t even think we have any books featuring turkeys.
Abigail’s Something You Can Hold page: A bouncy ball. Apparently I didn’t need to worry so much about their being overly thankful for material objects; this is the only one of the bunch. Though I didn’t predict the turkeys, which just goes to show that Mama Doesn’t Know Everything. Please don’t tell my kids.
Abigail’s Something You Can’t Hold page: Christmas. By which time I hope there will be less turkeys in the crafts.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
I stop in via Cara’s blog on occasion and spend waaaay too much time reading and cracking up, but don’t think I’ve ever commented. Today, I can’t resist.
Apparently your children and I have something in common, that or I’m much less creative than I’d ever dreamed. I sat my almost 2 year old down for a fun craft on Thanksgiving eve, sure we talked about thankfullness and such, but all I could come up with were construction paper hand print turkey’s! WE’RE VEGAN!
And so we spent nearly an hour gluing feathers and beaks and feet on our little turkey colony and hung them on the fridge. Thanksgiving day We celebrated at home with an animal free feast (it was my birthday, my rules!) and then made the family rounds, my little guy was horrified to see the turkey on grandma’s table looking, much less err, alive than I had just described!
Ok, geez sorry for hijaking your post!
Thanks for stopping by and saying hi!
Veggie-eaters of the world, unite and come up with a new and better Thanksgiving craft! Eh, or not. Crafted turkeys ARE pretty cute.