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Contact_FullName: Kimberly Tetrick Contact_Email: Kimberlyallboys@aol.com Area: Thanksgiving Food Idea: Create a Turkey with an apple, colored marshmallows and toothpicks. Take the apple and place it on a paper plate, take the colored marshmallows and place them on the toothpicks and stick them in the apple. Contact_FullName: Jackie Contact_Email: jaylee6@aol.com Area: Thanksgiving Food Idea: Edible Pilgrim Hats ingredients: one for each child round tea biscuit cookies or vanilla wafers large marshmellow jelly bean dip cookie and marshmallow in melted chocolate "glue" together to make hat place jelly bean as hat buckle ENJOY! Contact_FullName: Shelly Contact_Email: Shelmo08210@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving Day Fun Idea: My preschool does a Feast called "Our was of saying Thank You" We know the children all don't like turkey so we have a Thanksgiving Day Pizza Feast and we invite the parents for lunch. The kids love this and so do the parents. Contact_FullName: Cherlyn Contact_Email: ccherlync@yahoo.com Area: Thanksgiving - Food Idea: I teach 3 yr. olds and instead of having all the traditional foods associated with Thanksgiving, we had a Feast of Favorites. A few weeks before our feast I asked each child what his/her favorite food was and how they make it. I copied these down verbatim. Then I asked the parents to send in a dish of their child's favorite food while I made up a menu of our feast including 'cooking' instructions. We had a blast! We ate chocolate donuts, shredded wheat, several dishes of macaroni and cheese and even some pumpkin pie. It was a hit and the menu became a memento to send home. Contact_FullName: Sierra Area: thanksgiving-snacks Idea: "Glue" a marshmallow to the top of a fudge striped cookie using icing. Let icing harden. Dip the marshmallow and cookie in melted chocolate. Use gel icing to make a buckle. Now you have a hat! Contact_FullName: Lara Contact_Email: lkristof@peoriaud.k12.az.us Area: Thanksgiving-Snack Idea: Have the children make their own cornucopia for snack by filling a sugar ice cream cone with fruit snacks, Trix cereal (each piece is in the shape of a fruit) and/or real fruit such as berries and grapes. Our students really enjoyed making and eating this snack. Contact_FullName: Melissa Contact_Email: miswoods00@verizon.net date:: 11/18/03 Area: Thanksgiving--snacks Idea: Make Your Own Stuffing: For Thanksgiving, we let the kids experiment with making "stuffing." We filled several bowls with plain croutons slightly crushed, and let the kids sprinkle in different seasonings such as garlic or onion powder, celery seed and dried parsley. Then the kids used a squirt bottle filled with water (the picnic-style ketchup and mustard squeeze bottle worked best or a turkey baster and bowl of water). Then they stirred, added more spices or water and some of them even tasted the stuffing. The kids absolutely loved this activity since they were able to "cook," and it's a great activity for sensory experiences and fine and gross motor skills. Contact_FullName: Diane Contact_Email: bdtliv@msn.com date:: 02/17/02 Area: Thanksgiving Snack Idea: We did this with my son's class. Each mom brought the ingredients of having a turkey dinner. One mom that is a teacher at our high school used their oven and cooked a turkey. We had mashed potatoes (but no butter/gravy). We made up no bake pies. Rolls, pickles and some of the basic items. The kids made up anything that had to be made up. I believe there was a Jell-o salad made up with whip cream and power dry Jell-0. The table was set with table cloths and little tiny pumpkin candles and they turned out the lights and the kids said a prayer (in a public school) yes! Then the kids ate in the dim day light of the room. Something they will always remember. Contact_FullName: Shelly Contact_Email: Shelmo08210@hotmail.com date:: 11/09/02 Area: Thanksgiving Day Fun Idea: My preschool does a Feast called "Our was of saying Thank You" We know the children all don't like turkey so we have a Thanksgiving Day Pizza Feast and we invite the parents for lunch. The kids love this and so do the parents. Contact_FullName: Tammy Contact_Email: noah'sarktwo@microcore.net date:: 11-12-02 Area: Thanksgiving/cooking Idea: Use bowl w/lid or glass w/lid. Add instant van. pudding and milk. Have children take turns shaking until pudding is make. Then add one or two tsp. of pumpkin pie filling, dash of cinn. Shake and serve. This taste great. All my children really enjoyed this treat!! Contact_FullName: Jennifer Contact_Email: zoomaster5@yahoo.com date:: 10-29-01 Area: Thanksgiving snacks Idea: I did this last year and the kids loved it. Use a Nutter Butter cookie for the body, cut our fruit roll ups for feathers and the waddle (or use gumdrops), pretzel sticks for legs and raisins for the eyes. Be sure and take a picture of your little chefs for the parents to see. Contact_FullName: Penny Contact_Email: penny@sbshelp.com date:: 10/3/01 Area: Thanksgiving=Snack Idea: Edible Turkey's-Each year we make edible turkey's for each child to eat or take home. Each turkey will need 1 Oreo cookie, one chocolate covered cherry, five candy corns, one butterscotch baking chip, one red hot candy and chocolate icing. Take 1 Oreo cookie, separate it and remove the white filling. You may need to help the children or already have this done before starting. The Oreo break very easily when trying to separate. One Oreo cookie half is the base which you place a chocolate covered cherry on with the icing. Then take the other half of the Oreo cookie and attached it to the back of the cherry with the icing so the candy corn can be attached (points down for the feathers). You will need 5 pieces of candy corn. Next take a butterscotch chip and attached with frosting for the head and a red hot candy and attached to the butterscotch chip for the gobbler. You now have an edible turkey. I can't tell you how many compliments I get from the parents each year when these are made! The kids love them too!
11-18-00Sugar Cone Cornucopia's- Instead of just a regular shaped Sugar cone filled with goodies, why not shape the cone into a real looking cornucopia? Start by boiling a pot of water. You will need the steam to make the shape. Take a regular sugar cone and place over the steam until pliable. Do not let it get mushy. as it starts to "soften" place the pointy part of the cone over the edge of the pot so it takes a bended shape. Do not let the cone get wet. once it is shaped, place it on wax paper and let it dry. You will have neat little curve to your cornucopia! =)
11-4-00At the youth center where I work, the budget is limited, therefore for our Thanksgiving Feast we provide finger foods. ex: veggies & dip, apples & dip, various crackers, finger Jell-O, etc... all are served from a sugar cone cornucopia. Enjoy!
9-9-00A tasty recipe for No-Bake Pumpkin Pudding To make one individual serving per child, mix two tablespoons pumpkin pie filling, two tablespoons marshmallow crème, and one tablespoon whipped topping. It is fun for the kids to measure the ingredients themselves and mix this tasty pudding. 8-23-00Turkey Cookies - you use Keebler striped cookie, a star chocolate candy, and a caramel. Put the star candy as the feet. Then the caramel (sq) as the body, then the corn candy as the head and the feathers is the Keebler cookie. You will need to place caramel in microwave-safe wax paper on high 5-10 seconds until soft so all the items will stick while making the turkey. ideaThis is a fun Thanksgiving activity. You start with the Rhodes dough that comes roll shaped. You need two rolls per child. Take the first roll and just put it on the tray this is the body of the turkey. Take the second roll and with a rolling pin roll it out flat. With a butter knife have the child cut the flat circle in half. With one half of the circle roll it into a snake shape and this is the neck and head of the turkey. With the other half of the circle, cut with a knife to make the feathers. When you have all the parts of the body done, have the children brush on a beaten egg white. This makes it shinny and it also helps it to stick together. Optional touches are sliced almonds on the feathers, and coarse salt. Bake the turkeys at 400 degrees for 12-15 minutes. You don't need to worry about letting them rise. When your turkey is done, place 2 pretzel sticks in the bottom of the turkey for the legs. Date: 12-1-99ideaA variation of the Friendship Stew is Sharing Mix. I invite each family to send a finger-food type of snack that can be added together at circle time to create a trail mix. The Sharing Mix then get divided into Ziploc bags and sent home for all to enjoy. The kids think it is super cool! Date: 11-23-99ideaLast year while working with two year olds we made bagel turkeys. For each child you'll need a bagel, 7 lollipops, and 3 candy corn. The bagel acts as the turkey's body. Poke 2 lollipops through the base of the bagel as legs so it will stand up. Then use the remaining lollipops as feathers poking out of the top of the bagel. Just above the hole in the bagel we poked in 2 candy corn as eyes and 1 candy corn as the gobble. The kids had fun making this edible project and afterwards we toasted and ate our bagels with jelly, butter, or cream cheese! Yum! Date: 11-17-99ideaEDIBLE CORNUCOPIAS In advance send home a parent letter asking each student to bring one cupful of "cornucopia filling" to school on a designated day. Provide a list of suggested fillings, such as raisins, nuts, popcorn, bite-size cookies, and small candy pieces. You will also need one waffle cone per child. On the day of celebration stir together student's ingredients and serve each student a portion of the mixture in a waffle cone. Date: 11-15-99ideaHave each child bring a vegetable from home. Cut up the vegetables and boil them in a soup pot while you are doing other activities. Stir in some chicken or turkey broth and serve up some Indian Corn Bread with this hearty Pilgrim Stew! Date: 11-7-99ideaEvery Thanksgiving we have a potluck for the parents and grandparents. This year the day before the potluck we are having the children bring in vegetables to help make vegetable soup. We will discuss the first Thanksgiving and how the Pilgrims and the Indians shared with each other. Then the morning of the potluck the students will make muffins and butter. Date: 10-31-99ideato make Indian corn cakes we use inexpensive Jiffy corn muffin mix. The corn cakes are mixed with 1 egg, milk, and t of shortening. These are fried in an electric skillet. We serve them with homemade butter. They taste great!! Date: 10-14-99Date: 11-19-98I had someone ask how many cookies you got from the Cornmeal Cookie recipe. I had never counted them but yesterday we made them in class and I made half a recipe and had about 36 cookies. I give the children a small spoonful and let them roll it into a ball and put on the cookie sheet. That way they get to help mix them and also make them. Out of 10 children, all but 1 liked them. They get a copy of the recipe so they can make them at home. Date: 11-7-98Cornmeal Cookies 1 1/2 cups shortening 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups cornmeal Mix all ingredients in a large bowl. Drop by teaspoons onto greased baking sheet. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes. Talk with the children about the kinds of food the pilgrims and Indians would have eaten. Date: 11-7-98Edible Turkeys 1 clean orange 5-7 assorted straight-stick lollipops 2 raisins dab honey or peanut butter 2" strip of Fruit by the Foot roll-up marshmallow toothpicks Indent marshmallow with toothpick to form beak on orange. Place fruit strip under marshmallow Place raisins (eyes) on orange using honey or peanut butter to complete turkey face Place lollipops in feathered fashion on rear of orange Date: 11-7-98Apple Turkey: Get an apple and place four or five toothpicks on one side. Place one toothpick on opposite side with a turkey head glued on it. On the others place fruitloops until you reach the top and place a mini-marshmellow . The kids love to make these and have fun eating as they go. You have to eat the broken fruitloops its a rule. They turn out really cute. And edible centerpieces for your Thanksgiving Table. 11-2-98 Name: gloria Big red apple, Take raisin's and slip on to tooth picks about 3/4 the way down then stick into back of apple as feathers. Make about 6 or 7 feathers depending how big your apple. Then make one arisen filled toothpick with a green olive on end for the head, add cloves for eyes pullout your little red thing and insert 3 tooth picks under him so he can stand freely. Makes a cute snack or table decoration. Name: Date: 10-27-98Thanksgiving Turkeys made with Oreos. You will need 2 double-stuffed oreos. Take 1 oreo apart. This will be the base. Place the whole oreo on its side on the base, so that it sticks to white of the oreo. In front of the oreo on its side, place a malted-milk ball for the turkeys head. Next, place candy corn, points down, in between the oreo cookie that is standing on it's side. You will have an oreo turkey. 10-23-98 Name: Jo 2-19-98 Name: Carol E-Mail: Cann16@aol After talking about how corn was introduced to the Pilgrims we then make corn bread one day; the next day we boil and eat corn on the cob; we have popcorn another day, and then for fun we have candy corn the next day. The children love it, and are part of all the mixing and the shucking of the corn, and adding corn to the popper. Name: Debbie E-Mail: costlow@erols.com We make mini cornucopias by using Bugles snacks. Put a little bit of vanilla cake frosting in the opening and let the children add 3 or 4 Runts fruit shaped candies. I've also seen this done with Trix cereal. Name: Jennie E-Mail: Isnerholz@aol.com We are making and eating a feast. I have invited 7 parents to come help us in learning centers. 1. We will make cornbread in one (packaged mix). 2 Roll turkey and ham slices and attach with toothpicks. 3 Make stove top stuffing by adding warm water. 4. mini pumpkin pies: cut circles from Pillsbury already pie crust and put into mini muffin tins, fill with premixed pumpkin pie filling from a can and bake. 5.one set of children and parent sets the table 6.make butter by putting whipping cream and a marble (clean) in a plastic container and shake during circle time.7. Everyone helps clean up. 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