Thankscrafting - D40

Happy Thanksgiving!  We hope your day is full of family, friends, turkey and whatever "traditional dish" your family loves (and other families call weird).  As you head out early for a 5k turkey trot, sleep in til noon, play football in the back yard, watch the parade, share a feast together or take in a few football games... GIVE THANKS.

Here is a crafty Thanksgiving project that we used at our Shepherds Fall Retreat this year.  It is a great idea for kids... but if your family is anything like mine, it will lead to a epic challenge with everyone involved. 

Sponge paint fall colors on the tree to make leaves.  Then write down all the things you are thankful for.  You can write on the leaves, the tree trunk or in outline format justified on the left side of the page if you have a healthy touch of OCD like me.

Crafts for a Year!

I bet you can vividly recall some of the crafts you made as a kid at summer camp.  I can still picture the flower pot soldier I made at Camp Pamadeva.  I had that thing sitting on my window sill for years.  Unfortunately, it’s premature demise was the collateral damage from a Nerf gun battle between my brother and I.  I remember being sad about my broken artwork.  It was pretty good for a kid who was fairly impatient and not so crafty.

The pictures above show the calendar craft we are doing this summer at Arrowhead.  Our 13 day program is a perfect fit for this project and we are thrilled to have a craft that will be used all year long.

This is a great family project too.  Grab some 11” x 17” paper and make your own.  You could make a themed calendar or a calendar for each of your kids.  Don’t forget to fill in your calendar with important upcoming dates or use it as a journal of what you have done together as a family.  What a great way to look back on a year gone by.

You can also check out our website to download a pdf of the calendars we created for camp this summer.