Thankful Wreath

Ella made this "thankful wreath" today. She loves getting her hand traced and after we were done, she proceeded to trace her own hand and insist I cut them out so she could make another wreath. That wreath, I just now notice, is stuck to the front door....she put it there herself. Aww... she's so darn sweet...

We have so much to be thankful for.

Indian Corn

Ella and I were able to make a couple different Indian corns today.

She was so cute. She had little squares of red, orange and yellow and sorted the colors first before adding them to her corn.

All done! Good fine motor practice and it turned out cute! :)

Bubble wrap Indian corn

Ella and I made this today using bubble wrap.

Then using her fingerprint to add some nice red pieces in there.

I glued on some husks and voila!

A nice thanksgiving decoration for our house. (Ella keeps thinking it's Christmastime already, but I keep telling her we have to celebrate Thanksgiving before we get to Christmas!) :)

Paper Plate Turkey

Ella was excited to get sponge painting her paper plate. :)

After sponge painting, she added the turkey that I'd already cut out.

Glued on the eyes, etc, and voila!

Coffee Filter Handprint Turkey

Ella was all about making "decorations" today, so we made this cute turkey.

First she colored two coffee filters with markers.

Then I traced (bigger though) both her hands and cut them out. Then she sprayed them with water to have the colors blend.

I also traced Ella's little foot on brown paper to be the turkey.

Then she glued the feathers onto the back, added wiggly eyes, a beak, a giblet and feet and we have a cute little turkey.

So cute!

Watercolor Turkeys

We brought back out the watercolor paints today. I traced Ella's hand and she painted feathers on her turkey.

I'm trying really, really hard to get her to use other colors other than black! Black, she says, is her favorite color right now.

And she's working on staying in the lines. I think she's doing pretty well!

Finished at last!

Ella was reluctant to lace this turkey for some reason. She started it one day, then wanted no more...rather, she wanted mommy to finish lacing. I didn't and decided to wait until she was ready to finish it herself. Today was the day!

Lacing day one...

...and three days later she finished it and had fun gluing down the parts again and stuffing the turkey!!

So now we have a new decoration for our door.

Gobble, gobble!

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Coffee Filter Turkeys

Ella loves markers so this was a fun project for her. She colored her coffee filter (though she's really into black lately!) and I traced her foot (and also traced Williams). We lightly sprayed some water on the filters to make the colors run and Ella glued the turkey parts onto the body.

Of course I made Williams on the right. It's so cute to see how itty bitty their feet are!

Ella's always excited to show daddy after we finish our projects. She's so proud of her work. :)

Turkey Feathers

We skipped our morning art project and this afternoon after Ella's nap she was saying "art project" to me, so I figured we had to make something. I'm so happy she enjoys making things with me!

First I traced her foot. Here she is gluing it down to paper to serve as the turkey's body.

And of course, adding the much needed googly eyes..

And adding the colored feather pieces around her turkey.

I laid one color strip down to show her how it was done, but she did all the rest. I think she did a remarkable job! They're pretty straight!
And we also added some cute little feet. Gotta have the little turkey feet!

Pretty cute, eh? Gobble, gobble!

Oh the Toilet Roll...

Ella had such fun making the toilet roll turkey yesterday that we decided to make another today.

First I traced her tiny little hands...

Then she used teh bow to sponge paint her hands red, orange and green.

I cut them out later and she helped me glue on the hands, googly eyes (she loves googly eyes!), the beak and the giblet. If we keep going we're soon going to have a whole family of toilet roll turkeys!

While we had the paint out, we also made a handprint turkey. Ella's still not too keen on getting paint on herself, so I couldn't talk her into letting me paint the other hand. She did like gluing on the googly eye, beak, giblet and legs though.

Maybe next year she'll have fun adding more to this picture.

Turkey Time!

Ella and I had fun making this toilet paper roll turkey today. She picked the colors and glued everything on. (I put the glue spots down to help her.) She loved her little turkey!

Playing with her turkey.


The finished turkey!

I think it is too cute! It's currently serving as our table's centerpiece. It'll be perfect for Thanksgiving dinner!

Gobble, gobble..

As I was making breakfast this morning, this is what I see...

Ella's talking away and playing with her brother.

Playing with him... He's usually very happy to be with Ella, laughing along with her, but here he looks less than amused!

They caught me with my camera.

Ella made a beautiful princess wand today. She colored the stars...

added the much loved glitter....

and it's currently drying, so I'll get the picture soon.

This morning we reviewed shapes and had time to make a quick shape turkey as we get excited for Nov 26!

Isn't he so cute?

I even made Ella heart shaped chicken nuggets for lunch today.

Do they look appetizing or what? :/ I got the recipe from here. The things I make never look as pretty as the pictures in the book. Lucky for us I have leftovers now in the freezer for another time...

But surprisingly Ella ate quite a few!