stART ~ Franklin’s Thanksgiving

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This week we read Franklin's Thanksgiving,  by Paulette Bourgeois.  Emily enjoyed this sweet story about Franklin the Turtle.  He is sad that his Grandparent’s can not make it to celebrate Thanksgiving, but Franklin and is parents decide to surprise each other by invite all of their friends to come over.  They end up having so many guest that they don’t know where to put everyone.  Until Franklin has a great idea and the family starts a whole new special Thanksgiving tradition.

Emily and I talked about our Thanksgiving Traditions and then made another Turkey decoration for our Thanksgiving Celebration out of leaves that fell from the tree in our front yard.

It was fun to go on another leaf hunt to find the leave that looked like feathers for the Turkey.  Emily glued them onto a piece of construction paper.

Next, she glued the Turkey Body over the leaves.  I cut the body out of construction paper for her.

After that she glued on the beak and snood that were cut from craft foam.

Finally she asked for a green marker to draw the eyes and orange to draw the feet.  She told me that some people have green eyes so her turkey could too.

   Emily’s Finished Leaf Turkey