Don’t Wait Until Winter to Find Christmas Help
This year (2010), charitable agencies expect to have an increase in the number of families seeking assistance for the coming holidays over the amount they serviced in 2008 and 2009. There are national and local agencies offering Christmas help for low income families, but it is important that you contact them as soon as you can if you are a low income family in need of Christmas help.
If you are in need of free toys this Christmas for your children and need help in …

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How The Grinch Stole Christmas is a popular Christmas story. Other than the songs that were originally written specifically for this cartoon, How the Grinch Stole Christmas script is EXACTLY what Dr. Seuss wrote in his book of the same name. Nana has found TWO versions of The Grinch script. Read below and follow the links to The Grinch script, a Readers Theatre The Grinch script, fun Grinch activities, How the Grinch Stole Christmas YouTube videos, and some Grinch stuff for collectors. //

Synopsis of The Grinch Who Stole …

Celebrate harvest time with this tempting spice cake topped with sweet, creamy maple frosting and lots of nuts and fruits.

What you need:

1 package (18 1/4 ounces) spice or carrot cake mix
1 cup water
3 eggs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup apple butter
Maple Buttercream Frosting (recipe follows)
2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips, melted
1/4 cup chopped almonds
2 tablespoons chopped dried apricots
2 tablespoons chopped dried cranberries*
2 tablespoons raisins

*If dried cranberries are unavailable use additional chopped dried apricots and raisins.

Preheat oven to 375F. Grease and flour two 9-inch round baking pans.
Combine cake mix, …

Easy-to-make ears of Indian caramel corn are a festive addition to any Thanksgiving celebration, especially for the young children. Wrap them in clear wrap and place them in a basket for a treat to take with them when they leave.  Make smaller ears of Indian Caramel Corn and personalize them by attaching a place card to each one. Place one at each place setting on your Thanksgiving table.

What you need:

2 quarts popped popcorn
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/4 cup butter or margarine
2 Tablespoons light corn syrup
1/4 teaspoons light corn syrup
1/4 cup candy-coated fun …

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This colorful edible Thanksgiving mobile can hang over the Thanksgiving dinner table or in a doorway. For a fun party favor, personalize each cookie with piping gel and let the guests snip their cookie off the mobile as they leave.

What you need:

1 recipe Butter Cookie dough
3 egg yolks
3 teaspoons water
Yellow, red and green food color

Supplies:

Plastic drinking straw
Small brush
Ribbon or yarn

What to do:

Preheat oven to 350F
Roll dough on floured surface to 1/4-inch thickness Using diagrams as guides, cut out …

Dressing for Thanksgiving dinner takes on a whole new meaning when Tuxedo Turkey arrives at the table! Shhh…Don’t let the other Thanksgiving turkeys know. They’ll all be very jealous!

What you need:

1 turkey (14 to 16 pounds)
1 refrigerated pie crust (1/2 of 15 ounce package)
1 egg yolk
1 teaspoon water
1 red food color
black past food color (found at cake decorating supply stores)

Turkey Tuxedo Vest Pattern

What to do:

Roast turkey as desired. Remove from oven.
Preheat oven to 425F.
Roll pie crust on floured surface into 12-inch circle. Cut as shown in diagram 1.
Carefully place large …

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Have the children dress up in their homemade Thanksgiving Pilgrim costumes and read a Thanksgiving poem to family and friends between the Thanksgiving Feast and the delicious Thanksgiving desserts.

Homemade Pilgrim Boy’s Costume
What you need:

short black pants or sweat pants. (Buy a pair at a consignment shop if you don’t have old ones.)

What to do:

Cut the legs to look like knickers, just below the knee.
Add any type of long-sleeved black jersey.
Complete the costume with white tights or high white socks and …