5 Simple Tips To Save Money On Holiday Road Trips
Every year millions of people travel by car during the holidays. This year many more families are expected to travel during the holidays. Here are 5 simple tips on saving money during your holiday car travel.
1. Shop around for the best gas prices. Look at gasbuddy.com to see where gas is cheapest in your area. Additionally, fill up your tank at least 2-3 days before the holiday because gas is almost always more expensive on the day of the holiday. Read more
Simple Thanksgiving Turkey Hand & Foot Prints Craft
A fun and simple craft for kids to celebrate Thanksgiving is the Turkey hand and foot prints craft. It also serves as a cute keepsake because you are using your kids hands and feet to create the craft.
Fun Kids Thanksgiving Turkey Craft: Fruit & Candy Turkey
Wondering what to do with all that left over Halloween candy?
I’ve got a fun crafty idea for you. How about a Thanksgiving Turkey made from oranges and that left over candy! Read more
2008 Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade TV Character LineUp!
Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on TV is just as much of a Thanksgiving tradition for our family as is eating Turkey! Actually, when I was a child we used to eat our Thanksgiving dinner while the parade was on. I’ll never forget eating stuffing for breakfast! Since the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade is only a few days away I wanted to share with you a few of the children’s character favorites that are going to be there.
Giant Balloons Kids Will Like:
Buzz Lightyear ( my 4 yr. old son is really going to love this!)
Shrek
Horton The Elephant
Kermit The Frog
Beethoven, the dog
Ronald McDonald
Dora The Explorer
Spongebob Squarepants
Smurfs
Abby Cadabby (from Sesame Street)
Pikachu
Floats Kids Will Like:
Bolt
Build-A-Bear Workshop
Care Bears Winter Wonderland
Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends
Snoopy’s Dog House
SantaLand Express
Other 2008 Parade Guests Kids Will Enjoy:
Santa & Mrs. Claus
Miley Cyrus
David Archuleta
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Free Thanksgiving Turkey Coloring Printables
It’s turkey time which means it’s also craft time for the kids while you prepare Thanksgiving dinner. Here are some cute Turkey coloring pages to print our for your kids. We’ve put together some great links to where you can find all the Thanksgiving turkey printables you’d ever need.
1. On the Kaboose website you will find lots of turkeys, pilgrims, and more. It’s a great place for printables. In particular here is an adorable turkey pilgrim that yor kids will certainly find amusing.
2. Coloring.ws (a DLTK site) has a page filled with 15 different turkey printables. What more could you want?
3. Disney Family certainly has some unique coloring pages. For instance, this Turkey playing football is too cute to not share with you and this one where the turkeys are cleaning up the Fall leaves.
4. ThanksgivingFun.net is just how it sounds. They have lots of coloring pages that will provide hours of fun for kids.
5. firstschool-ws (a site we love since we’re a homeschooling family) has some great coloring pages too from dressed up turkeys to cooked turkeys. Take your pick!
6. Another great idea is to take a photo of your child playing in the leaves or near a fall scene then turn it into a coloring page in Adobe photoshop. Then print it out for your kids for a real treat!
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