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Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/8/2008 9:22:42 AM
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Homegrownkids
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Here is a thread where you can post your Holiday Tradition ideas. Something you've tried and it caught on, or something you'd like to try.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/8/2008 9:25:52 AM
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Homegrownkids
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I will start..... I've been looking for a table cloth big enough for our table. I'd like the kids to write what they are thankful for, during this month of November, with permanent marker on it. Or, we could go as far as decorating it with fabric paint if I can't find a vinyl table cloth that is big enough for my table, and have to go with fabric. I thought it would be fun to take it out each year and add more to it. Maybe put a Bible verse about having Thankfulness in the middle of it.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/8/2008 9:44:17 AM
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ddsisson
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I like this idea. We gather around the table every year and before we pray we tell what we are thankful for. I like your idea that way it gives a permanence to it.(That way we can look back and see what we were thankful for-maybe add dates, etc).
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/8/2008 12:05:42 PM
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misaham
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I love that idea, too! One year I cut out leaves and hung them on a piece or twine on the dining room wall. Everyone wrote what they were thankful for and hung them back up. But I did not keep them, as we moved and they were not really "re-usable". I like the idea of adding to a tablecloth each year. I have a plain white one that I bought on clearance, maybe just for this purpose! ;-)
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/12/2008 10:23:11 PM
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creationtalk
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Every year at thanksgiving we do "blessing leaves," then the leaves are used as ornaments on the Christmas tree. my son came up with the idea after hearing a story--we cut out leaves and on them write what we are thankful for....the second year we included people whom we were thankful for, and the leaves were then given to these people....the third year my son was writing his blessing leaves, giving them to the people who were named and giving away blank blessing leaves to people telling them what they were for, so those people could also write blessing leaves. This year we bought a laminator, my son wants us to laminate the blessing leaves this year so they will last longer...
We also make hand-made Christmas ornaments. Several years ago I started making "ornament" blanks--crochet circles, stars (with tail), and snowflakes (2.5-3" across)--that my son would decorate. These were then given as gifts.
I am also working on delaying the gifts to Jan 6--Epiphany or Three Kings Day, so that Christmas stays about Jesus and the gifts are given to commemorate the gifts given by the three wise men.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/13/2008 12:57:21 PM
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We normally go to my grandmother's for Thanksgiving. I have rarely missed one through my life. Every year we wonder if it's the last year. She is 96 this year. For the second year in a row, I will be taking my father with us.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/21/2008 11:13:38 AM
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Homegrownkids
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I really like your ideas for Thanksgiving Room2. I think I will look for a wooden tree. My thoughts were, to make leaves by tracing their hands and let them color them, let them write what they are thankful for on them, and then laminating them so that they last longer. To me, it would be treasured having their hand size, along with their age, and what they are thankful for.
I tried the table cloth idea. We had LOTS of fun decorating it with colored permanent markers. But, I found out that markers still wash off a little bit, even though it says permanent. So, our colors have already faded from me wiping off the table after we eat. It was still very fun though. I will pack it away and bring it out in a few years, it will be treasured.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/24/2008 12:48:27 PM
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Last year we made "Thankful Turkeys". We traced our hands on construction paper, cut them out, wrote on each finger something we were thankful for. I made turkey bodies to attache the hands to .
This year I bought a pilgrim lady holding a basket. It is supposed to hold a tea candle but I thought we could write on stips of paper what we were thankful for and read them on Thanksgiving.
We don't have much extended family and not close to anyone, so we have a small dinner at home. Our tradition is that we all make one or two things. Mom doing all the cooking, is just not happening here. I think Thanksgiving time must have been a stressful time of year for my family when I was growing up.
My mom has been with the Lord many years now. I make her dressing recipe. It is really the only one I like. She didn't use the giblets in it, which I hate.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/26/2008 12:33:07 AM
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dramagal
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We do something similar to HSmom2. We create a big (flat) turkey out of construction paper and cut out feathers from red, orange and yellow construction paper. We write things we're thankful for on each feather and glue them on.
We create a new turkey each year and some of the turkeys have taken on interesting themes. Last year, our turkey was Scottish (with a plaid kilt); another year, he was a Founding Father with powdered wig and miniature of the Constitution.
Every year in November, we pull out the old turkeys and tape them up on the hall walls. It may seem strange to others seing them, but just today two of my kids were looking back at previous turkeys and reminiscing. I love our turkeys.
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RE: Holiday Tradition Ideas - 11/26/2008 9:01:27 AM
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HSmom2
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That sounds cute Dramagal! What a great memory for your kids! Last year was the first time we did the turkeys. The year before that we made placemats. I am still trying to think of something to make this year. Since crosswalk sent an email with the "Thanksgiving" story, I think I'll read that to the family and have everyone make either an indian or pilgrim. I'm guessing we'll have two pilgrims and two indians!
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