Thanksgiving is a day to give Thanks for what you have, your family and your friends. It is also a day to enjoy spending time with your family. But what do you do when the parent you are thankful for seems a million miles away (give or take a thousand)? Here are some ideas for mailing THanksgiving to your Mom or Dad.
Care Package Ideas
Candy As always candy is a great idea. See if you can find any "fall themed" Candy.Food Send him a thanksgiving dinner of sorts. They love to recieve food from home...try sending apple juice boxes (in place of apple cider). Also cookies cut in Fall shapes are good. Be creative and see what you can come up with....pumpkin cookies are good in place of pumpkin pie, turkey jerkey in place of Turkey, they'll get food from home and a laugh at the mixmatched meal! What could be better.
Decorations (all craft ideas will be explained at the bottom of the page)What would a Thanksgiving celebration be with out decorations! One fun decoration to make is Turkeys with a traced hand. How about fall colored garland! Draw lots of pictures about the fall and what your thankful for.
Video and pictures Take lots of picture of the holiday. Also take video (or audio tape) of everyone saying what they are thankful for. Sing the Thanksgiving songs you've learned at school and tell the thanksgiving story on the tape.
How to do the Crafts
Handprint Turkeys- Trace your hand on a piece of construction paper. You can then draw a beak on the thumb part and color the rest of the fingers in like feathers. Draw legs and feet on it too. OR you can cut the handprint out. Also cut out a small triangle. Glue the triangle onto the thumb as a beak and again color the rest of the fingers in as feathers!
Thanksgiving Garland- Cut fall colored(Green, gold, brown, red) construction paper into one or two inch strips (Have mommy or daddy help you with this)Then link the strips together into a paper chain. Make it as long as you want!HOME
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