Volume 1, Issue 1 • November 2013
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWSLETTER
Thanksgiving Ideas By Sarah Chamberlain
Hi my name’s Sarah Chamberlain and I will be writing the kids section of the newsletter each month. Since this month is November and we are going to have Thanksgiving soon, I thought you might want to hear a few fun ideas for Thanksgiving. Here they are: After Thanksgiving dinner you can play baseball with the leftover rolls. Our family did this once at my Grandma and Grandpa’s house and it was hilarious, so be sure to make extra rolls. Or you could go bobbing for apples. If you like games you could play a game called Thankerchief. Sit in a circle and pass around a handkerchief while saying these words: “Thankerchief, thankerchief round it goes, where it stops nobody knows, but when it does, someone must say, what they are thankful for this day.” I asked a few of the kids in the neighborhood what they like to do on Thanksgiving and this is what they told me. Charity Barlow goes to play with her cousins and eats pumpkin pie. The kids play tag and hide and seek and they eat homemade peach cobbler too. Good ideas Charity! Molly Lewis and her cousins play school and have races. They do fun tricks for each other. And then after that have a dance party. Each year they invite somebody who doesn’t have a place to eat Thanksgiving dinner to their Thanksgiving dinner. They also eat homemade carrot pudding. Yum, sounds good! Be sure to watch the Macy’s day parade and for a fun activity
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while you watch you could make clove apples. Buy about 100 pieces of clove to decorate one apple. You can get the cloves at Winco. Push in the clove but leave most of it showing and enjoy your sweet smelling clove apple. If you like to be helpful you can go outside and find one autumn leaf for each person coming to dinner. Write their name in a Sharpie on the leaf and set it by their plate. People will think this is a very cute idea and might soon do it at their house. If you have a table cloth that is okay with you for people to write on, have each guest sign their name and what they’re thankful for and you can keep it for a decoration for Thanksgiving next year. Do that every year and in a few years you’ll have a collection of signed table cloths from your loved ones. Before it’s time to go home from your Thanksgiving feast be sure to have a turkey gobbling contest. Sit in a circle and have everyone do their best turkey gobble. It will be pretty funny to see what everybody’s best turkey gobble sounds like. Have someone be the judge and give the winner a small prize like a tootsie roll bank. I think we have one of the best neighborhoods ever. I’m glad it’s so well taken care of and I hope we all take care of each other this month.
Spring Creek Ranch - November 2013
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