On This Grateful Day
In this season of gratitude, we’d like to wish you and your family all the time and space you need to truly focus on the good things that are yours. We at Gracious Rain count you, our friends, as some of our greatest blessings.
Happy Thanksgiving!
(Fruity Turkey is made from a pear half, cashew, chocolate chips, pinch of taffy, apple slices, and mandarin oranges)Personal Indian Placecards
Oh, baby–here they come. Pocahontas and her pals. Just in time for Thanksgiving!
Remember last year when we filled the table with Pilgrims? Well, we have their counter parts all ready for you.
You can download your very own Personal Indian Placecards–right this minute. Color them or use them as a pattern for colored paper cut outs…
or let the papooses do it for you…either way.
Cut out the pieces–clip the fringe strip so it looks like…fringe.
Now you can do this a couple of ways. Either roll the dress and staple it–like we did for the pilgrims–or wrap the dress and fringe around a tissue tube–which is what we did.
Next, glue or tape the family face of your choice above the neck of the dress…
or whatever you call it when you force a brave to wear it.
You can tape or glue the fringe at the neck or at the bottom…or in the middle for that matter. But that would be kind of ugly. We’re letting the older kiddos make their own –so I’ll show you the results of that soon. But I wanted you to have the pattern now so that you could get going on them before the table is set.
I think your little babies will love these little babies.
Ours did.
Thankful Pie
Looking for a fun way to help the kiddos focus on their blessings while the turkey is cooking?
How about making a simple little Thankful Pie?
Paint the edges of a paper plate a light brown–to look like pie crust.
Next, use a bowl to trace a circle out of pumpkin colored scrapbook paper. Cut it out and glue it to the middle of the paper plate.
Attach a plain paper plate to the back of your “pie” with a brad fastened in the middle.
Cut out a wedge from the top “pie” plate–being careful not to cut too near the middle.
You can write whatever you’d like on your pie. We passed out stickers for everyone to write their “blessings” on.
Then, we stuck them on the wedge space, turned it a few inches and attached another. You’d be surprised at how many blessings your pie will hold.
As you can see…everyone had different ideas…of what to be thankful for.
For me…it’s all pretty obvious. Don’t you think?
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Sabbath: a Day of Thanksgiving
“This Sabbath day has been designated as a day of thanksgiving, a day of gratitude—even a day of prayer. We pause, we ponder, we reflect on the blessings an all-wise Heavenly Father has bestowed upon us, His children, by bringing comfort to the hearts of so many in this wonderful world where we live and which we call home”
~Thomas S. Monson
Chocolate Pilgrim Hats
I know…I know. You’re thinking, “What?! Two cookie projects in one week?!! Launi, Launi–what are you doing?”
Hang on now–admit it. Aren’t these the dang cutest things you’ve seen in a long time? You know they are, so you see? I couldn’t help myself. Here they are…
Start with Fudge Stripe cookies, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups–the little ones,
Fruit roll-ups and Pez–any color. I was a bit disheartened to find that I only had pink Pez. Not sure how the pilgrims would feel about pink…but we forged bravely ahead.
At first, I thought we’d need frosting to glue everything together, but there is an interesting thing that happens when you put chocolate by more chocolate. They tend to stick. So, while I was mocking up the hats with sincere plans to make the frosting later, I came back and found that it really wasn’t needed.
I cut the fruit roll ups into strips with a pizza cutter, in a sort of rounded shape.
The better to lay flat around the hat…with.
Set the Pez up to the seam part of the fruit roll up. Again, I was thinking that we’d need frosting–and of course, you are welcome to use it, but these little beggars held together without it as well. And quite frankly, I’m not a huge icing fan–so why muck up a good thing if you don’t need to?
And there you have it my dears.
I think this yummy project would make lovely little diversions for the “kid’s table” on Thanksgiving.
What do you think?
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