Bonus Celebration Day - Thanksgiving

This month Mother Goose Time gave us an awesome little Thanksgiving celebration kit!

We had lots of fun with this.

These extra little kits are really great and have all sorts of things included with them. It came with a little teacher guide for the day and materials for games and crafts that can be used with a wide range of ages. There were other items that you can print out on the Mother Goose Time website for this bonus day under the Member Resources area and then you’d look in the “On The Go” section. There are invitations, a checklist, a sign-in sheet, station signs, and decorations that you can print out and use.

Here’s the teacher guide

The first thing we did was sit down and talked about what Thanksgiving is. We also sung a little circle time song and write on our feather for our Thankful Turkey.

Next, we played turkey bowling! This was lots of fun. I loved the little paper turkeys. I cut them out and taped them to some recycled water bottles. I set them up like bowling pins and then we took turns rolling a ball and trying to knock down the turkeys. Then we’d count how many turkeys fell over and then set them back up to play again.

We also played a game called Stuff the Turkey. I taped some paper drumsticks to the sides of a paper bag. Then we took turns tossing some little pompoms into the turkey bag and pretended to stuff the turkey. I tried to get Miss M to step back and do this but she wanted to sit right next to the bag.

We also made a little turkey snack. I took the glove we were given and put puffs in the fingers. Then I filled the main part of the glove with some popcorn - Cosmos Creations Caramel Apple Crisp actually. It’s super yummy (totally addicted to these now…) and I don’t have to worry about Miss M choking for the most part because there are no hulls or kernels. Bonus: this is also gluten-free, trans-fat free, and is made with non GMO corn. I also attached a little wiggle eye and some scrap paper to make it look like a turkey. Such a cute idea for a snack.

We had so much fun with this celebration kit! Thanks Mother Goose Time! :D