I have four Thanksgiving articles over on Suite101 that have lots of simple ideas for Thanksgiving.  If you are looking for something quick or a new tradition, you should check these out!

Thanksgiving Ideas, Projects and Writing Prompts

Creative Thanksgiving Ideas for Children

Create Meaningful Family Thanksgiving Traditions

Classic Thanksgiving Children’s Picture Books

Let me know if you find something you really enjoy.  I always like to hear the ideas that people find most helpful or inspiring.

Enjoy! 

I found this idea at Chasing Cheerios and adapted it for our use.  The flowers are from my scrapbooking stash.  I laminated everything so it will last longer.

Caroline has been loving this.  She carries the number line around off and on all day.  We were playing with one of her stuffed animals with me making Bunny talk.  Bunny tried to count, but she kept getting stuck or making mistakes.  Caroline “taught” her the numbers and how to count to twelve.  Very cute and an easy way to check her knowledge.

I found several good ideas here.  So many times the ideas seem so “obvious” once I see them, but I haven’t come up with them on my own.

Off to find cookie cutters for the Play-Doh…

Montessori for Everyone has a number of free downloads available. They include season matching cards, a nice book about plants, a calendar activity set, and several others.  I especially like the sharp photos and clean design to the materials.

And if you are especially interested in free Montessori materials, here is a site I found that will take quite a while to explore: MontessoriMom.com.

Enjoy! 

I mentioned this idea the other day and that it was on my to do list with Caroline.  We had to make an unexpected trip to Home Depot last evening for some things so it gave me the opportunity to pick up a few paint chip cards and make this!

Caroline likes to point out “matches” so I was pretty confident she would find it interesting. And I knew she would like the basket I found in my “hang onto it for something” stash. I wasn’t sure if she would be able to manipulate the clothespins.  She wasn’t.  She immediately set to the task of matching the colors, but couldn’t figure out how to get the clothespins on there.  And she was only moderately interested in any instruction on how to do so. 

So we’ll see how this goes later in the day and tomorrow. I may just put it away for another month and get it out again later.