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November 22, 2007, families across the United States will celebrate Thanksgiving Day. We do this to commemorate the harvest reaped by the Plymouth Colony in 1621, after a long winter of immense hardship and starvation. The Pilgrims were joined by neighboring Indians, the Wampanoags, who joined them for three days and contributed food to the celebration.

Want to get your children involved with the Thanksgiving Day festivities? Here are some great craft ideas that are quick and easy!

Thanksgiving Place Cards:: What you'll need:

• Paper napkin in fall colors or orange construction paper
• Small paper clips
• Apple, any color
• Almond, with or without the shell
• Peanut in the shell
• One Lifesaver candy
• Two small wiggle eyes
• Yellow construction paper
• Hot glue gun
• White craft glue
• Marker

How to make it:

1. Hold the almond point down and use white craft glue to attach eyes on rounded part. Let glue dry.

2. Use hot glue gun to glue the Lifesaver to front of apple. Don't use white craft glue as it will cause the candy to start to liquefy and run down the apple (glue the Lifesaver on the apple's shoulders).

3. With hot glue gun, glue almond to Lifesaver (covering the hole, point down) and let dry.

4. Glue peanut below almond for turkey wattle.

5. Unfold napkin half way, then fold accordion style. If you don't have a napkin, you can use a piece of construction paper. Trim off about 3" from the long end of the paper, making the measurement approximately 6" x 11".

6. Put paper clip in center of folded napkin.

7. Pull ends of folded napkin together to make a fan. Secure with paper clip at top. Sit napkin behind turkey.

8. Unbend end of one paper clip and insert into apple.

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