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Fall / Autumn Crafts : Thanksgiving Crafts

Thanksgiving Crafts, Creative Activities & Thankful Recipes

November's Thanksgiving holiday brings thoughts of family togetherness, abundance, and thankfulness. If you're seeking Thanksgiving writing prompts or craft project ideas, coloring pages, word search puzzles, turkey cutouts, treats, dinner recipes, and other thank-full activities, then you've come to the right place! Here you'll find Creativity Portal's own Thanksgiving Day coloring and hand-tracing turkey activity fun, autumn soap project and holiday decor ideas. Plus you can visit our recommended Web resources for more fall craft projects, free recipes, and Thanksgiving Day fun.

Thanksgiving Day Holiday Project Features

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Paper Turkey Cutouts
By Chris Dunmire
Colorful, free, and fun Thanksgiving turkey cutouts to print, cut, and use for cards, gift tags, scrapbook elements, decorations, and more!

Coloring Page: Fall Turkey
By Chris Dunmire
A free printable turkey coloring page you're sure to gobble up!

Hand Tracing, Turkey Making, Creative Fun! What are you Thankful Four?
By Chris Dunmire
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Thanksgiving Activities from DLTK
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Featured Thanksgiving Article

Thanksgiving Party Menu

By Carol Selva

The holidays are a time when people want the familiar, they want traditions, and the seasonal" says Mary Cleaver of The Cleaver Company. She describes her Thanksgiving menu for 12 as "variations on the classic." The meal starts with a rich and delicious Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Tart which Cleaver likes for its harvest feel and because "it gives the humble onion an elegant presentation." And, she notes that the tart "is a great vegetarian option" for those who don't eat turkey. Wherever possible Cleaver, who is an advocate of sustainable agriculture, uses organic produce and she says "free-range turkey is healthier and tastes more flavorful."

The main course is rounded out with lots of interesting vegetables and some of the special heritage breads the Cleaver Company makes for Thanksgiving.

When it comes to serving this holiday feast, Cleaver suggests laying out the dishes as a buffet so everyone can help themselves then sit down at the table, that's "an easier way to do Thanksgiving when there often isn't enough room for all the food and all the guests at the table." And for dessert, what could be better than everyone's favorite, homemade pies? For 12 guests Cleaver suggests serving three different pies so everyone can have a taste of each and if you're lucky there'll be leftovers!

Caramelized Onion and Goat Cheese Tart
Roasted Free-Range Turkey, served with Gravy
Sausage and Sage Cornbread Stuffing
Parsnip and Potato Pommes Annas
Sweet Potato Purée with Sesame Seeds
Cranberry Orange Relish
Squash, Onion, and Apple Ratatouille
Green and Yellow Beans with Lemon and Shallots
Pickled Watermelon Rind
Shaker Saffron, Moravian Potato and Sally Lunn Breads
Apple, Pumpkin, and Pecan Pies served with Whipped Cream

See www.iparty.com to shop online for party goods, supplies, invitations and more! •

11/08/05

THANKSGIVING RECIPE RESOURCES

Thanksgiving Party Menu
A Thanksgiving party menu for 12 as a "variation on the classic."

Apple Turkey Craft
Learn how to make a fun apple-licious turkey sculpture from an apple, marshmallows, raisins, and candy corn (recipe is about half-way down the page).

Oreo Turkey Snack
A cute and sweet turkey sculpture made from Oreo cookies, candy corn, Hershey's Kisses, and licorice.

Popcorn Ball Turkey
A kid-pleaser with plenty to gobble up! Made with popcorn balls, peanut butter cup miniatures, butterscotch chips, cinnamon tic tacs, and small pretzels.

Turkey Cookie Recipe
A fun turkey concoction using a cookie, malted milk balls, candy corn, and a few other ingredients.