Recently, my sweet sister got me hooked on Once A Month Meals. Basically, you sign up with them, and they help you plan menus with all the information (shopping list, prep list, cooking schedule, recipes, etc.) that you need to shop and cook for a month's worth of meals in a little over one day. We usually break it down into at least two days: The shopping and prep day and the cooking and freezing day. It's awesome. Now, there's always a great meal ready to cook every day. And it saves on the grocery bill as well. (After setting it up to work out to food for two weeks instead of four, the average cost of groceries was about $160/2 weeks for our family of five.)
I decided to apply this theory of having things prepared in advance to make a daily art adventure easier. And to make sure that we have some Thanksgiving decorations to put up.:)
The countdown to Thanksgiving is on... And it's down to 4 days left. And we still have our Halloween decor up. So... Since I love doing crafty stuff with the mini's, and I don't feel like I do enough of it, I have decided to prep some projects out ahead of time, then just pull them out over the next few days. Thanks to Pinterest (LOVE it!), here's what's on the agenda:
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| Thankful Turkey Book |
Thanks to the blogger at b-inspiredmama.com, I found these adorable Thankful Turkey books. Instead of using paper bags, I simply cut two sheets of printer paper and a sheet of construction paper in half the long way, folded the printer paper and one half of the construction paper together, then stapled them. They are tucked into a paper lunch bag, awaiting creation. My little man and baby doll will be able to write in their own books with minimal help, and the super baby will be able to dictate. Then they can draw away to illustrate all the things that they are thankful for at this point in their lives. I'm excited to see what they come up with.
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| Lego Stamped Indian Corn |
Crafty Morning inspired me to set this art project up for my kiddos. We have a few (TONS!!) of Legos hanging out around here, so this should be an awesome art project for us to do. No bag for this one, I just printed out the picture and basic directions so I wouldn't be scrambling for an idea.
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| Turkeys |
I wish I knew who to give credit to for this adorable project... :( Anyways, we have tons of TP rolls hanging out for art projects, and paper plates, so another bag is prepped with those two basic needs to create turkeys to set out to replace the pumpkins hanging out.
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| Rock Turkeys |
Another Crafty Morning project... When we bought our house, one of the back flowerbeds was landscaped with rock. Still is, though that is changing in the spring. But, for now, there were just enough rocks not buried in snow for me to pick out three that are perfect for this craft. As soon as they are dry, they will go into the next bag to motivate our creativity.
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| Coloring Sheets |
Mommy Octopus gathered some awesome coloring sheets. Little man has already colored in the turkey color by number and the Thanksgiving scene. These should be some great fillers for the kiddos Thanksgiving day, so we will be printing off extras to share with the cousins (and aunts/ uncles/grandparents/friends) should they feel the desire to do some holiday coloring!
I'm so looking forward to doing some intentional projects with the kids. There is so much to be gained from them- not the least of which will be the wonderful memories made of doing these things together.
(Huge thanks to all who shared inspiration for the crafts! Everyone I could find a link to give credit to is linked in the caption of the picture!)
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