Happy Thanksgiving Table-Top Cite Cards {Via This Reading Mama}
January 03, 2019
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Last calendar week nosotros welcomed infant Ryan into our family. While I am enjoying snuggling alongside him as well as spending fourth dimension alongside my other 2 kids, I accept some especial invitee bloggers scheduled to part some keen posts alongside you! Today I am excited to innovate y'all to Becky at This Reading Mama! She is sharing a fabulous Thanksgiving writing activeness alongside us. Welcome Becky!
Becky Spence is a homeschooling mama to 4 piffling blessings (ages 7, 4, 2, & 8 months). She is passionate almost teaching, specifically literacy. She is the writer of This Reading Mama, where she shares reading as well as writing activities equally good equally costless literacy curricula as well as printables. You tin also bring together This Reading Mama via Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.
There's something almost Thanksgiving that makes me experience only warm inside. The smells. The food. The family. Counting our blessings; 1 past times one. Or perchance it's that Thanksgiving is to a greater extent than almost the presence of identify unit of measurement as well as less almost the presents for self. Either way, I accept such fond memories equally a kid of my woman nurture at Thanksgiving time: pulling out the fine china, dusting it off, as well as serving the family. Yum! Now, I do accept a amount ready of fine china...in my cabinet. It in all probability has over 4 inches of dust. ;) With 4 immature children, I'm non quite cook to draw it out for Thanksgiving. But, I tin endure "fancy" inward my ain means as well as incorporate some writing practice inward the procedure alongside these Thanksgiving table-top shout out cards!
Materials Needed
- construction paper- brown, red, as well as orangish (You solely ask a piffling fleck of the reddish as well as orange. I used scraps from other fine art projects.)
- cardstock or a manilla folder for templates
- cardstock for shout out cards (my shout out carte dimensions were 3x5, as well as then an index carte would run equally well-this volition endure folded inward half)
- glue
- googly eyes
- scissors
- pencil
- and a listing of names of the people who volition endure eating at the table!
Assembling Your Turkey Name Cards
- Create as well as cutting out the 2 trunk pieces of your turkey alongside cardstock (left-hand side on picture). Use the cardstock trunk pieces to describe multiple times on top of the brownish structure paper. If y'all accept an older kid making these, he tin describe onto the structure paper, too. For a indicate of reference, the size of my circle is almost the size of the bottom of 1 of those Take & Toss cups for toddlers as well as preschoolers.
- Cut out all the trunk pieces from the brownish structure paper. On the circle pieces, cutting slits all around the top as well as then they await similar tail feathers.
- I exactly cutting a minor triangle for each invoice (orange) as well as a tear-shaped slice for the wattles (red) instead of making templates alongside the cardstock.
- Glue the trunk pieces, wattle, as well as invoice together equally seen inward painting exhibit above. Glue on the googly eyes.
- While the gum is drying, notice your listing of names as well as assistance your kid write the names of the people who volition endure eating Thanksgiving dinner alongside you. (If your kid is exactly learning to write, y'all may desire your shout out cards to endure larger inward size to accommodate that. You could also accommodate it as well as then that y'all write the names inward pencil as well as enquire him to describe over it inward marker. Older preschoolers may desire to do it themselves. In either case, it is helpful to separate upward the names, as well as then that your kid isn't writing every shout out on the listing inward 1 sitting.)
- Glue on the turkeys as well as you're finished!
On Thanksgiving day, assistance your kid read each name as well as identify the shout out carte at the appropriate seat. Count your blessings as well as enjoy!
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Becky Spence is a homeschooling mama to 4 piffling blessings (ages 7, 4, 2, & 8 months). She is passionate almost teaching, specifically literacy. She is the writer of This Reading Mama, where she shares reading as well as writing activities equally good equally costless literacy curricula as well as printables. You tin also bring together This Reading Mama via Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest.