Thanksgiving and Turkeys!!

This week is we learned about Thanksgiving and of course TURKEYS! We continued working on our letter Ee, brown, squares and the number 4.  I apologize now because there aren't a lot of pictures from this week.  My camera died on Monday and on Wednesday we had so much fun that taking pictures completely slipped off my mind (one of those days :) ). 

Anyways this week we learned about what giving thanks means and somethings that we are thankful for.  It was interesting on some of the things that they were thankful for.  Most of them were thankful for their puppies!  :)  The whole week we were gobbling around like turkeys and strutting while we walked from place to place.  We also had to gobble while we did it.  You can not be a turkey without gobbling!

On Monday we made a turkey dinner.  We stuffed brown lunch bags with newspaper, twisted them, taped and shaped them to look like turkey legs.  We next added our mashed potatoes which consisted of cotton balls.  You couldn't have mashed potaotes without butter, so we had to add some butter!  We also added yellow and green tissue paper for our green beans and corn.  I LOVED how they all reminded me that corn and green beans were a vegetable and that they are good for us! 
Here is a picture of our Thanksgiving meal.
 

 

 

I am addicted to pinterest!  If you have never heard of it or been on the website you are missing out!  There are oodles and I mean OODLES of good creative ideas.  I found a turkey craft that we had todo.  It involved FINGERPAINTING (their favorite)!!   Here are footprint and handprint turkeys! 

I had to take a picture of this one.  It was one of my favorites!  When I painted their hands, I used one hand to 'blend' in the colors.  This little boy choose green and orange. The reason I love it is because one of the 'feathers' turned camo, pretty neat!!  What made it even better was that he pointed it out! :)  I love how my preschoolers are so smart and the things that they notice!

 



 

 

On Wednesday we continued learning about turkeys.  We made turkeys out of rice krispies.  They didn't turn out as well as I planned.  When we tried to put out fruit loop feathers on, our turkey fell apart. :(   In the end it was a great lesson on how things don't always turn out like you want them to.  You just work with what you have and make the best out of it and that is exactly what we did! 

 

 

Since our rice krispie turkeys didn't turn out like we wanted them too, we made another turkey!! 

 

 

 

I hope you all have a great Happy Thanksgiving and enjoy your break with friends and family!!!