A week with Pilgrims, turkeys and fall!

Pine Cone Turkeys - The kiddos added these pipe cleaner legs, beak and eyeballs.  No one wanted feathers oddly.  But they turned out super cute!

I made the feet for the kiddos, they shoved them in and added a beak, then picked out eyeballs.

 

Fall Cookies - The kiddos created yummy, fall colored cookies.  The funny thing is, Ms. Sara doesn't have any leaf cookie cutters, so the kiddos chose other shapes.

Bean Indian Corn - We glued beans, dried corn and pom poms to create Indian corn today.

Pumpkin Clay (of sorts) - Today the kiddos enjoyed creating all sorts of things with this fun clay-dough.  Check your kiddo's bag, they of course got to take it home.  They worked at it for quite some time.  The dough is just canned pumpkin and corn starch.

Fall Votive - The kiddos made beautiful fall colored votives for your Thanksgiving table.  They painted with Modge Podge and then added tissue paper. 

Finished product complete with Dollar Store battery votive candles.

Lego Builders - I challenged two kiddos to a building contest.  We were building to see who could create the tallest tower.  We quickly realized we could make one huge tower by putting all of our towers together.  We were hoping to go from the garage door to the table, we nearly made it!

 

We measured how long our tower was:  21.5 feet! Then we counted how many Legos we used to create our tower:  297!  Holy Cow!  We used some random pieces at the end!

Story Bracelets - The kiddos and I made story bracelets to help us remember the story of the pilgrims.

I saw these several places online.  Super cute idea.

gray-ish bead - the pilgrims boarded the Mayflower to sail to the new land.
3 blue beads - the trip across the ocean took a long time.
green bead - "Land-ho!"
3 white beads - hard long winter
green bead - spring is here!
tan-ish bead - the Wamponoag tribe helped the pilgrims
heart bead - 
funny shaped bead - represents the fish planted with the corn seeds
the last 3 beads represent the foods served at the last thanksgiving - turkey, cranberries, corn, pumpkin