Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays because it revolves around family, good food, and an attitude of gratitude.
Apples 4 Teachers houses a collection of seventeen Thanksgiving poems, some of them modern, others from the nineteenth century.
"Five little turkeys standing at the door, one waddled off, and then there were four." For lower elementary grades and preschoolers, DLTK has songs, rhymes and printable Thanksgiving crafts.
Joanna Fuchs is a talented greeting card poet, and her Thanksgiving poems are sure to please.
For high school, college, and adult students of poetry, Poets.org introduces seven iconic Thanksgiving poems from poets as varied as Langston Hughes and John Greenleaf Whittier.
Jean Warren presents a page of traditional preschool Thanksgiving rhymes mixed in with her own original creations.
With cooler, shorter fall days, now is the perfect time to gather round the kitchen table with construction paper, glue, paint and scissors to make some Thanksgiving crafts. I could never design any of these clever craft projects myself, but I do know whe
These Thanksgiving craft projects run the gamut from Kids' Crafts (scroll down a bit) to hostess gifts, but all are illustrated and well documented.
At DLTK, it's not just about Thanksgiving crafts, but also about online games (Thanksgiving Word Searches and Jigsaws), recipes ("some for mom, some for kids"), songs, greeting cards, coloring pages, and printables.
"The first Thanksgiving in the USA was a feast in 1621 shared by the Pilgrims (who had recently settled Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts) and the Wampanoag Indians, who shared their corn, squash, and wild turkeys.
Family Fun's Thanksgiving mini-site is my pick of the day because of the quality of their crafts, and the ability to add projects to a personalized craft box.
The first thing that struck me at Kids Domain was that pipe cleaners are now called chenille stems.