Posts Tagged ‘family’


Thankful Turkey Apples

Friday, November 21st, 2014

Thanksgiving is a week away. So much to do with buying the turkey, stuffing the turkey, digging up the yams and making pies. You have all this to do and the kids are just BORED! Here is a great activity to keep your kids busy while you get the food cooking.

My family made these years ago. This is one of my favorite pictures of all time (sorry kids). These cute kids were much younger then and some now even have kids of their own. I am so thankful for each of them (remember to write that on a feather) plus all the wonderful new additions to the family (remember to write that on another feather).

 

thankfulfamily

The first thing we did was cut out our feathers. There is a PDF in this post that you can print out your feathers. Then the kids all colored them and wrote all of the things they are thankful for on every feather. We used a carrot for the nose with a toothpick through it and stuck the raisins on with water (they got sticky). We taped toothpicks on every feather and then stuck them in the apples in a tail feather fan.

Afterwards the kids displayed their thankful turkey apples for this GREAT photo. Then do you know what we did?  We gobbled up those turkeys for a healthy snack.

Here is a printable page for the turkey feathers. You can print them on colored paper for a variety of colors or just let the kids color the feathers.

Thankful Turkey Feathers PDF

Have a very Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours!

Grandma Dody’s Banana Nut Bread

Friday, November 14th, 2014

This morning I woke up and I found this on my table:

Old Bananas

Do you know what that means? Time to make the banana bread! Yea! We all cheer because old bananas can turn into one of our favorite treats.

So I took those bananas and I did this:

Squished Bananas

And used my Grandma Dody’s Award Winning Banana Bread Recipe to make this:


Grandma Dody's Banana Nut Bread
Recipe type: Bread
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Serves: 1 loaf
 
The story of the award winning banana bread as told to me: My grandfather always thought my grandmother made the best banana bread. So one day grandpa asked grandma to make a loaf of her delicious banana bread to take to his friends at work. Grandma was a great cook and easily whipped up that bread for grandpa. He secretly took the loaf of banana bread to a competition where grandma's bread won 1st Prize.
Ingredients
  • ¼ cup butter
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tablespoon sour milk
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 tsp baking soda
  • 3 mashed bananas
  • 1 cup walnut or pecan pieces (optional)
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  2. Cream sugar and butter.
  3. Add eggs and mix well. Add sour milk.
  4. Sift flour and soda together. Add gradually.
  5. Fold in mashed bananas and nuts well.
  6. Put in greased loaf pan.
  7. Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour.