Making Thanksgiving memories with your teens is an effort you will never regret. Thanksgiving conjures up images of families sitting down to eat together, tables filled with amazing arrays of foods, houses decorated to impress, and wonderful aromas and laughter wafting onto the front porches. Sometimes these family get-togethers can be a cause of stress…
Month: November 2019
THANKSGIVING FINGERPLAYS FOR CHILDREN
Thanksgiving fingerplays are a great way to interact with younger children. These fingerplays help children with gross and fine motor skills, improve memory skills, and help them to visualize stories, all while having FUN! Here are my favorite Thanksgiving fingerplays: I’m A Little Turkey (sung to the tune of I’m A Little Teapot) I’m a…
Pour Art
This last week, my family was given the privilege of attending a pour art workshop.I am not an artsy type person, but when I heard about this opportunity, I jumped on board.With the responsibility of scheduling, organizing and chauffeuring all of my children around, I’ve found that I generally sit on the sidelines and watch…
NaNoWriMo
Have you heard of NaNoWriMo? I hadn’t, until a couple of years ago. I wish I’d heard of it when all of my kiddos were younger. So, what is NaNoWriMo? Here is the link to their website, and it explains it all really well: https://nanowrimo.org/about This is great! They give you so many ways to…
