Happy Thanksgiving AND Christmas is Coming!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving around here and managed to squeeze in a few activities and crafts...I have been a little more motivated lately since our little man usually takes a pretty regular morning nap and I can focus on the girls. Here are just a few of the things we've been up to: (so thankful I had all sorts of activities made from last year to reuse plus a few new things too!)

Little Bear focused on coloring her Color the Turkey little book

Tiny REALLY focusing on her coloring, her face makes me giggle :)

All the while, we have this little guy waiting patiently for his turn to "do school"

Playing a little Thanksgiving Matching game...I wasn't sure if she would get the concept of matching quite yet, but to my surprise she was a pro!

Playing the Turkey Hunt alphabet game, finding lowercase letters to match the uppercase ones. This was actually too easy for her this year, but she had fun clipping the clothespins on anyway.

We made Thankful Turkeys! Little Bear wrote all the people she was thankful for on each of the feathers and glued them on. I helped her with spelling some of the names, but that was it! She's really loving to write lately, even sounding out some words on her own. Tiny made a turkey also, but I wrote the names for her and she LOVED using the glue stick to glue on the feathers.

Harvest Mice counting game...fun little game I made last year. Little Bear got creative and started clipping the numbers to the cards, rather than just laying them there. Again, this one was almost too easy, but always good practice!

Tiny was attempting to play the Pumpkin Color Match game, but she decided she'd rather play with the clothespins (taking them all apart too!).

Christmastime is almost here so I got out all the Christmas activities from last year. The girls are loving all the fun things to choose from and wanted to do them all the first day I had them out.

Putting the alphabet ornaments in order on the floor first:

Then putting them on the door in a "step pattern" as she calls it :)

Spelling Merry Christmas...they just had to match the letters to complete the phrase and even Tiny was trying to match the colors of the ornaments.

She did great at this game, Stocking Number match. She would first look for the stocking to be the same color, then look to see if the number matched. She loved it and was so proud when she finished!

Christmas Tree design matching! How fun for them to do together. I gave them each a stack of the small tree cards and they ended up working together to find the matches and put them in the cans. Of course this turned into an all morning activity because they were using the trees to decorate our living room after they were done finding all the matches :) Yes, my friends, my children are wearing swim suits when it's 30 degrees outside.

We started our Jesse Tree on Sunday evening and the girls have been very excited about it so far. Little Bear even remembered doing it last year because when she noticed the little bare tree we used last year sitting in the living room, she said very excitedly, "Oh, it's my Jesse Tree!!!" and gave it a kiss ;) We are looking forward to many more Nativity and Christmas activities in the next couple weeks, but most importantly, we're going to be busy preparing our hearts for the coming of the Lord!

Early Merry Christmas from our family to yours!