November Danglers!

Here are this month's wooden danglers that I painted.  I LOVE the turkey and the cornucopia!

Give Thanks

Have I mentioned how handy it is to have a dad that can cut out ANYTHING I ask of him?  This is one of my latest projects:

Turkey Time!

I was asked to come up with a project for our Super Craft Night.  This is it:

I LOVE THANKSGIVING!! So, I of course, had to come up with something Thanksgiving-ish.  My dad cut it out and then after a little paint and modpodge and glitter - it was done.

Thanksgiving Crafts

I have a few more Thanksgiving projects that I wanted to share with everyone. The first is a GIVE THANKS banner (I guess that is what you would call it).  I made this a couple of years ago out of white cardstock covered with scrapbook paper and then I cut out letters to put on it.  I connected each square with some hemp cord.  It actually is pretty dang cute.

The second projects is a set of Happy Turkey Day blocks.  I got this idea from my SIL Leslie and since I already had something that says GIVE THANKS, I went with HAPPY TURKEY DAY.

The last thing I wanted to share is TURKEY FINGER PUPPETS.  I got the idea from here.  They turned out so cute and the boys love them.  They seriously took me like 15 minutes or less to make all three.

Jake doesn't look too happy here - check out his eye!  It happened right before the pic was taken.

Thanksgiving Wall Hanging

I made this little cross-stitch wall hanging the first year Aaron and I were married.  We had NO money for decorations and I had all the supplies to make this on hand - so this was our only decoration that year.  I have since acquired a few more Thanksgiving decorations (most of them handcrafted by yours truly).

Grand Gobbler

I made this a couple of years ago from a pattern that I found on the internet.  You can find the pattern here.  This is by far my favorite Thanksgiving craft that I have done.  Its quick and easy so if you are looking for that type of thing - this is it!

GIVE THANKS GIVEAWAY!!!

Okay, so Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday!  In honor of that, I am giving away this:

It's the same idea as my previous post, but simpler.  It is filled with strips of paper that have things you are thankful for and how you can show your thankfulness.  I'm warning you that this only took me 20 minutes to make so it might not be the best craft that I have done, but if you want to win just leave a comment.  Since November is coming SOON - you only have until October 31st to enter.  I will mail it out to the winner on Monday.  Good luck!!

Counting Our Blessings (Post Scripted!)

This is my new favorite thing.  It's basically an advent calendar for November and each little pocket has a card in it that has something you are thankful for written inside.  I call it Counting Our Blessings.  Some of the things on the cards are: We are thankful for music - turn up some tunes and dance together; We are thankful for our bodies - let's go play; We are thankful for our forever family - do something fun together; etc.  You get the idea.  I'm hoping it will make the kids appreciate all the things we are blessed with.  I'm excited for November 1st when we can get started.  I got the idea from here.

PS There is a cute, easier idea for this here.