Being Thankful

I am so grateful for this family, their love, their health, and the incredible joy they daily bring!

We read many books about blessings, pilgrims, and the feast. This book has been a favorite here for a long time, but they especially have enjoyed the connection between the turkeys in the book and crafts we have done recently. The book is titled “Gobble, Gobble Crash, a Barnyard Counting Bash” by Julie Stiegemeyer. The words are an easy to read rhyme with colorful sweet pictures of all of the farm animals, and it has a repetitive flow that each of them enjoyed chanting throughout the story.
It begins as, “Fireflies danced in the dark summer sky, and crickets in the garden played their music in reply. The farm was very quiet as the night replaced the day, while ONE lonely mare nibbled softly on some hay.” It continues counting to ten with cows, cats, lambs, geese, chickens, mice, goats, pigs, and robins. Each of the mother animals are annoyed at the Gobble, Gobble, Crash noise the turkeys make as “Mama Hen grew angry, and she scolded loud and quick, Turkeys, can’t you calm yourselves, think of my SIX chicks!” It isn’t until the animals hear the farmer scream out the window about the gobbling turkey mess proclaiming, “I’m gonna have a turkey feast,” that all the animals together decided to save the turkeys hiding each of them among the barnyard families. The story finishes by counting backwards from ten as the farmer thinks he’s dreaming and the barnyard bash is enjoyed by all of the critters for the rest of the night!

We made these sweet turkey treats to go along with the flapping wild turkeys in the story and had chocolate icing everywhere!

Isabela was happy to hold her treat that Jackson and Abigail made her.

This was Jayden’s project from school. She had to disguise a turkey so that it wouldn’t be eaten for Thanksgiving! She started with the outline of the turkey and had to come up with the rest.