Thanksgiving Thankfulness with Free Printable Cards

Thanksgiving is a holiday to spend with friends and family, reminiscing on all of our blessings and things we are thankful for. We have many blessings in our lives, both big and small. With the business of life, it can be easy complain or dwell on the things we don’t have it. Use this holiday to refocus your life and remember the most important parts.

That’s why I created these Thanksgiving thankfulness cards! Use them to discuss what each member of the family is thankful for.

There are 8 cards, 7 with things written on them and one blank card to write your own. Take each card and discuss why you’re thankful for that particular item! How has that item helped or blessed your life? Other than these things, what are some other things you can be thankful for?

• Family
• Friends
• Food/shelter
• Freedom of speech
• Education
• Thanksgiving
• Music/TV

Grab your free Thanksgiving Cards here!

Along with that, research the history of Thanksgiving including the pilgrims and the Mayflower. As a country, how far have we come since the 1600s?

• The First Thanksgiving for Kids video
• The First Thanksgiving and the First Settlers Information for Kids
• Thanksgiving Day from Ducksters

Also, check out these other great Thanksgiving posts!

Easy Thanksgiving Food Ideas for Kids

Get the kids cooking with these kid-friendly Thanksgiving snack ideas.

Thankfulness and Gratitude Activities for Kids

Use these activities and games to give opportunities to be thankful and to remember everything we have to be grateful for.

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Easy Thanksgiving Food Ideas for Kids

Turkey Chocolate Caramel Pretzels – Chelsea’s Messy Apron

Chocolate and caramel dipped pretzels are delicious. When you can make them into a turkey with candy corn, it is even more fun! Create and make as a snack for school or a gift for the teacher. Add some candy corn for feathers and edible googly eyes.

Fall Ice Cream Cone Teepees – Frugal Coupon Living

Utilizing a sugar cone upside down as a teepee is adorable. You can either use them as a great table centerpiece or fill them with ice cream as a special treat.

A Waffle Turkey – Kitchen Fun With My Three Sons

Try these waffle turkeys on Saturday morning! Each child can create their own fruit and waffle turkey to eat for breakfast. We don’t even use syrup because the fruit is sweet enough. We used strawberries, cantaloupe and pineapple as the feathers. Make it festive and fun!

Turkey Fruit Snacks – Mom Endeavors

Not all Thanksgiving foods have to be full of sugar! Try this turkey fruit snack, made from an apple.

Thanksgiving Cornucopia Snack – B-Inspired Mama

Cornucopias are a classic symbol of Thanksgiving and represent the pilgrims and thankfulness. This one is made from a variety of ingredients, some healthy and some sweet. Get creative as you create your own mix!

Chocolate Pilgrim Hats – Southern Living

An easy but fun project! A fudge striped cookie, a rolo candy and a little icing makes a pilgrim hat. Serve this at Thanksgiving at the children’s table or keep them in the refrigerator for your family. These are fun to make and eat.

Turkey Rice Krispie Treats – Ciao Newport Beach

We think rice krispie treats are always fun to make. So a rice krispie shaped ball for a body with candy corns as feathers and a candy bird beak makes for Thanksgiving fun. These are great to use for place settings too on the big turkey meal day.

Mini Pumpkin Pie Cookies – Sweet Sugar Belle

Who doesn’t like pumpkin pie even when it is not really pumpkin! These cute sugar cookies that use colored icing to look like little slices of pumpkin pie are great. The even have a dollop of whip cream. They are so festive to make and little hands will like decorating them.

Chocolate Candy Corn Pretzel Bites – The Jenny Evolution

These bite-sized treats are great for satisfying a sweet and salty tooth. This treat is easy to make and easy to munch on, for the whole family.

Indian Corn Thanksgiving Favors – Shaken Together Life

Stuff cellophane pretzel bags with these fall colored candies and tie with twine at the top. Make the top of the husk with brown craft  paper and when all put together, it looks like Indian Corn!

Crescent Roll Cornucopia – Kid Friendly Things To Do

This cornucopia is cute and can be filled with dip and veggies as a snack. We keep them on hand as a great snack container for 1-2 days after initially making them. It is easy to roll and mold the crescent roll into a cornucopia and bake. My little ones can not wait for them to come out of the oven for them to fill with the favorite veggie dip.

Edible Oreo Acorns – Frugal Coupon Living

The acorn is a great, creamy blend of cream cheese and peanut butter Oreos processed together in a blender. Then that mixture gets shaped into the acorn. Gather acorns before making these so you can have a model to look at for the right shape!

Pumpkin Rice Krispies Treats – Sugar Spice and Glitter

Enjoy these Rice Krispies shaped into pumpkins. They’re great for their groups, in case anyone has any peanut allergies.

Acorn Brownie Pops – Pint Sized Baker

Brownies are my favorite dessert. Make these acorn-shaped brownie pops, simple enough for the kids to help out with.

Fruity Feather Turkey – Betty Crocker

My children were sold on this food craft when they heard nutter butter cookies and fruit roll ups. They feel the need to eat both sometimes so this food creation makes them happy. It is a nutter butter cookie with the fruit roll up utilized as the feathers. These were fun to make and did not last long in our kitchen.

Corn Husk Cookies – Amy Atlas

These are a basic sugar cookie on a stick with icing and then colorful skittles to make the corn kernels. The hardest part is shaping the dough into a corn husk. The rest is simple icing and placing the colors of each kernel. This is like making a mosaic picture but using skittles. My children were very intense on making each cookie just right.

Turkey Marshmallow Pops – Midget Momma

Enjoy these easy to make marshmallow pops that are designed like turkeys! Their cute and simple design is a favorite among kids.

Chocolate Chip Turkeys – Very Best Baking

Everyone loves homemade chocolate chip cookies. Why not make them into turkeys? Use chocolate to make the feathers in different colors. You may have to work on developing our feathers, but the cookies are great tasting and fun to make.

Chocolate Turtle Apple Slices – Mom Loves Baking

Create this twist on a caramel apple. It is covered in chocolate with a caramel drizzle and a sprinkle of nuts if desired. It is a festive autumn treat perfect for the Thanksgiving holiday. It is even fun to set up for guests to make as an appetizer or dessert. 

Apple Nachos with Peanut Butter Chocolate – Trial and Eater

I always include Apple Nachos because it is one of our favorites. They are thin sliced peeled apples with melted peanut butter drizzled on top and mini chocolate chips. For this finger food, add what every topping you like on the apples.

Caramel Apple Turkey – Shower of Roses

Use an apple wedger to make these caramel apple turkeys to look like turkeys feathers. Then, add a small bowl of caramel dip with a candy corn and edible eyes.

Fall Acorn Pudding – Spaceships and Laser Beams

Create this homemade pudding, with (chocolate) acorns! It’s also easy to make in bulk, so it works well for a potluck.

What are your favorite kid-friendly Thanksgiving options?

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Turkey Crafts

Thankful Turkey Craft – Joyously Domestic

What are you thankful for? Incorporate Thanksgiving’s messages of thankfulness into this turkey craft.

Free Turkey Printables – Living Montessori Now

Here is a compilation of turkey printables and activities.

Painted Paper Plate Turkey Craft – A Little Pinch of Perfect

If you have a few paper plates lying around, create a turkey with them!

Do You Want to Make A Turkey? – Sight and Sound Reading

Do you want to make a turkey? Practice fine motor skills with this craft.

How to Make an Adorable Turkey Finger Puppet – Artsy Momma

Create this adorable turkey finger puppet with this easy to follow tutorial!

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Thanksgiving Crafts

Do You Want to Make A Turkey? – Sight and Sound Reading

Do you want to make a turkey? It doesn’t have to be a turkey! (Ok, maybe it does.) Check out this great Turkey craft from Sight and Sound Reading.

Thanksgiving Counting Cards and Puzzles – Living Life and Learning

Practice counting with the little ones with these Thanksgiving counting cards. This site also has a plethora of printables aimed at preschoolers and kindergarteners.

Do You Want To Build a Pilgrim? – Sight and Sound Reading

If you enjoy the more historical side of Thanksgiving, build a pilgrim with this printable craft from Sight and Sound Reading.

Free 25 Page Thanksgiving Printable Pack – Multi Tasking Mom

If you’re looking for a fun school day, try this free 25 page Thanksgiving printable pack full of word searches, mazes, puppets and more.

Creative Writing Prompts – The Multi Tasking Mom

Get those creative juices flowing with these great writing prompts from the Multi Tasking Mom.

Pumpkin Fall Seed Art – Mini Monets and Mommies

Create a pumpkin seed tree!

25 Fine Motor Autumn Apple Crafts – Mama’s Happy Hive

Practice fine motor skills with these great autumn apple crafts.

20 Awesome Outdoor Fall Science Activities – KC EDventures

Before the snow hits, get outside and explore with these outdoor fall science activities.

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1. Make sure you stick to your routine throughout the winter months so getting back into the homeschooling groove after you take a few days off.

2. But make your schedule flexible and don’t get stressed about meeting every goal you set. You’ll accomplish your goals, but it might take a little longer than you thought. That’s ok because the learning doesn’t have to stop when you homeschool!

3. Stay organized! I love this idea of how to organize school work because I can make it work for my holiday homeschool organization too.

4. Teach geography during Christmas – talking about the different ways people celebrate in different countries is fascinating and a great way to study geography during the holidays.

5. Learn about hibernation – It’s winter time and some of my children’s favorite animals are hibernating.

6. Thanksgiving Printables – Some simple activities that keep kids busy, but also have them learning at the same time!

7. Christmas Presents – Educational gifts like this Spirograph help your children self-educate so you don’t have to worry about planning something through Christmas vacation.

8. Montessori Activities for Christmas – Lots of hands-on fun and printables for children to learn throughout the Christmas season.

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Be Thankful Buckets

I love this idea for each child to have their own giving thanks bucket!

The Grateful Turkey

Having a visual reminder of the things that you are grateful for is very effective and this little guy is so cute!

An Attitude of Gratitude

Keeping children thankful even after the holiday is the real challenge. Here are some great tips!

Thank You Cards

Make these simple cards with your kids and show someone that you don’t normally say thank you to, your gratitude.

The Mom Challenge

Are you ready!? Here are 7 ideas for great conversations and it could turn into a meaningful family tradition.

Random Acts of Kindness

Help your children create an attitude of gratitude in others with simple acts of kindness.

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I am so glad I tried it, because after 8 years, it is still the only ham I like to eat for Thanksgiving.

I’ve given this recipe out to several people and I don’t think they’ve ever had ham any other way again either. The reason is that it tastes like candy! It’s sweet, salty, and melts in your mouth. It’s addicting!

The first time I had it, my aunt had to cut me off because she wanted some leftovers. I could eat half a ham alone cooked like this and it is too easy!

Usually I would write up a recipe card for this, but I’m just going to tell you because it’s a no-brainer.

The BEST Slow Cooker Ham Recipe

Drum-roll please…..

Ingredients: 1 Spiral Sliced Honey Ham, 2 cups of brown sugar and a few pineapple slices (optional).

Directions: Put 1 cup of brown sugar on the bottom of the slow cooker. Put the ham in and cover with another cup of brown sugar. Top with pineapple slices (optional). Cook on low for 6-8 hours.

That’s it!

I know, right?! So easy. Maybe it’s not really considered a protein after all the sugar, so just substitute it for that extra slice of pie you’re tempted to have. Trust me, it’s worth it.

Maybe you’d like to try this tasty marvel but you don’t want to buy a half a ham. You can always get a quarter of a ham and cut the recipe in half, which is SO difficult. Just make sure it is spiral cut or it won’t work. I’ve tried it and it was the biggest disappointment.

To serve, I usually leave it in the slow cooker. If you take it out, make sure you take a lot of the juice with it because it will dry out.

Freeze the left-overs and use them in split pea soup, ham casserole, or Ramen.

I’m temped to make some right now and it’s only October. Quick, someone make up a holiday other than Halloween so I have an excuse.

Now that you know this secret recipe, try it, come back and tell me what you think!

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So what’s it all about?  Giving thanks to God.  That’s it – not belt buckles or indians, turkey or pumpkin pie.  Why is that all anyone can remember?

Don’t take my word for it, read President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation where he talks about, “the ever watchful providence of Almighty God,” or you can also watch the movie, Monumental for free from Hulu below!

We hope you have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good; His love endures forever.” ~Psalm 107:1

Thanks so much for reading! ~ The LaTulippes

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Thanksgiving Art

Get the whole family involved in this fun artwork from Blog Me Mom.

Free Easy Reader Pilgrim Mini Book

Thanksgiving Songs for Kids

Fantastic Fun and Learning has shared some great songs that teach about Thanksgiving and resources for activities to go with them.

Gratitude Wreath

Teaching Toddlers Gratitude

Thanksgiving Notes

These are so cute and could be used for a whole lot more than just the lunchbox; Gift tags, or Napkin Rings maybe?

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