First Thanksgiving

I have been amazed how every store I walk into completely skips over Thanksgiving and moves right on to Christmas. So, I decided that this year my kids would really understand Thanksgiving and what it is all about (after I researched it myself!! Ha)

So, on a mission to halt the making of the millionth turkey today...
we decided to make the Mayflower. First we read a story about the Pilgrims and their journey. Then we constructed our Mayflower.


Finished product


After talking more and more about the story we decided to take it a step further. Of course we waited for Riley to get home from school, then we got busy!

We colored Pilgrims and Indians (Native Americans for you PC people)



We strategically placed and re-placed


And we finished with a "First Thanksgiving" display.


We had the Mayflower



And Plymouth Rock with an Indian waiting for the Pilgrims



We had the corn fields (not sure why Brooks went with the total black out on the Pilgrims)


But most importantly, we had the feast! Everyone at the table with all the yummy food.



So this turned out to be a bigger project than planned, but it was worth it when Riley looked at me and said "this is amazing, mom!"