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.) [...]

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Thanksgiving is a great holiday in which you can involve children in the preparations and celebration.  A great activity our children entertained our guests with was acting out a Thanksgiving story. Their grandmother would read the story while the children acted out the story dressed in Thanksgiving costumes. // This is a perfect way to complete [...]

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It is past nine o’clock, the grandchildren are on their way home…probably sound asleep. Halloween is over for children who live on the East Coast of the USA. Trick or Treaters came early. The weather was pleasant, not too warm for those heavy costumes and not too cold for the costumes requiring less clothing. Kids stay [...]

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The following homemade Halloween costumes are very easy to put together and will bring laughs from all those that you meet on Halloween! Chest of Drawers What you need: Safety pin a pair of Boxer shorts to your on your chest. Safety pin another pair on the back of your shirt. Pin a random sock [...]

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You can recycle cardboard for fun-to-make homemade Halloween costumes. Combine cardboard, some inexpensive trimmings, and imagination for the makings of clever, unique, and easy homemade Halloween costumes, such as a cheese sandwich, popcorn box, Hershey candy bar, tooth, restaurant table, and more… Cheese Sandwich Popcorn Box Hershey Candy Bar Restaurant Table Gift Box Tooth Button Refrigerator Juicy [...]

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