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    Thanksgiving Homeschooling on a Shoestring

    Free lesson plans and activities for Thanksgiving Native educators say Thanksgiving lessons can be accurate, respectful, and still fun—here’s how https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/native-educators-say-thanksgiving-lessons-can-be-accurate-respectful-and-still-fun-heres-how Thankful Decor Thanksgiving Tree 1 Make large tree to put on the wall. Add colored leaves and write whatever … [continue reading]

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    Homemade Snow Globe

    Empty clean baby food jars with lids plastic poinsettia, or other plastic flower silver or white glitter colored foil tulle (the stuff that bride’s veils are made of) ribbon, yarn, or bric-a-brac water or water mixed with baby oil, or … [continue reading]

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    Tin Can Lantern

    Tin Cans Photo by Pedro Forester Da Silva on Unsplash

    Safety First! Please exercise caution when making any craft projects. Some of the items used may not be suitable for all children to operate. The best cans for tea candles (short stuffy white ones) are the salmon and tuna cans. … [continue reading]

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    Styrofoam Ornament

    Take a Styrofoam vegetable tray, and use a cookie cutter to press out a shape. Decorate with sequins, glitter, etc. Punch a hole on top, and put a string through to hang it up.

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    Reindeer Candy Canes

    Really easy, you will need: small wiggly eyes, brown chenille sticks and candy canes. Use about a half of a piece of chenille stick for the antlers, and glue the wiggly eyes on for a reindeer candy cane. *Ideal for … [continue reading]

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    Handprint Ornament

    Use red and green felt. Trace handprint on a piece of card stock and then cut out red and green handprints. Then glue a red handprint back to back to a green handprint, with a loop of yarn in the … [continue reading]

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    Glitter Balls

    Adult supervision is a must for this one; glitter can be dangerous around little eyes and faces. (Anyone got any substitutes?) Fill a few small paper bags with different colors of glitter. (A little glitter goes a long way.) Roll … [continue reading]

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    Santa Pine Cone

    Pine Cones Photo by Timothy Eberly on Unsplash

    Gather pine cones. Supply cotton or cotton balls, chenille sticks (pipe cleaners), and red, black and white felt scraps, and googly eyes. The bottom of the cone is the top of Santa’s head. The kids can glue red triangles to … [continue reading]

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    Hammered Silver Ornaments

    Cut Ornament shapes (bells, balls, trees, stars, squares, whatever) out of old pie tins or other assorted “disposable” heavy aluminum foil baking pieces that you didn’t dispose of. You could also use tin ashtrays. Show the kids how to “draw” … [continue reading]

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    Dipped Candles

    For Dipped Candles you will need: paraffin wax empty can about 24″ of candle wick saucepan WARNING: An adult must help with this project. Paraffin wax catches fire easily if it gets too hot. Drips of hot wax can cause … [continue reading]