let's talk turkey!

A friend forwarded me this fun November activity--a way to countdown the days to Thanksgiving.
What you need:

• a jar, shoebox, or some other fun container
• ribbon
• scissors
• daily activity suggestions, printed and cut out

You cut out each of these Thanksgiving countdown ideas into strips, roll them into a scroll and tie them with a ribbon. Each day as you're counting down November, pull out one scroll and do what it says. It's kind of like an Advent Calendar for Thanksgiving. :) And it reminds us to be thankful for so many things, like:





And you get to do fun activities associated with each thing as well. (If you're interested in doing this yourself, email me or leave a comment and I'll send you the AdobeReader file.)

For our day one, we drew this one:


So for our FHE last night, we made our Thankful Jar and the kids were already excited this morning to start picking out Daily Thankful Tasks.






We wrote love notes. Again, let me know if you'd like me to send you the file. It doesn't take long to set up this activity and it's never too late to start. Well, after Thanksgiving might be a bit too late, but then you could just call it a Anytime Thankful Jar. =)

(In other news, the Cheer contest over on my review blog is finishing up on Thursday. Make sure you get a chance to enter!)