Free Personalized Thanksgiving Card from Tiny Prints

In case you missed out on their last offer, Tiny Prints is once again giving away a FREE personalized Thanksgiving greeting card today, November 16. Just use coupon code FREETHX11 and the card will ship for free too. You can also choose to ship it directly to the recipient for $0.44. The freebie expires tonight at midnight (PST). If you made one the last time they offered the freebie, you cannot make another one this time as the coupon codes are the same.

Create your FREE Thanksgiving card here.

4 Kid-Friendly Thanksgiving Crafts

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we sat down to make some easy, kid-friendly crafts for the holiday. We made all four of these crafts in about an hour, with things I already had in our craft supplies.

First up, the toilet-paper-roll Turkey (yeay upcycling!). I wish I had Googly eyes to add, but I didn’t t have any in my stash. He turned out cute without them, but I might still add them later. Note, those are the hands of my 3 year old, it would be cute to make this with hands from the whole family. I debated how to attach them and ended up deciding staples would hold up better over time.

Since the toilet-paper-roll Turkey turned out to be a very mommy centered craft (I traced her hands, and then did all of the assembly myself). K colored this simple hand-print craft while I assembled the Turkey. Great craft to keep little ones busy. If I did this again, I would make photocopies of her traced hands and let her color hand-print masterpieces for everyone.

We recently got some finger paints that K has been dying to test out, so we painted her hand and voila. This craft turned out so cute, I wish it was on something nicer for display, like a mini stretched canvas. (Note to self for next time.)

Finally, we had to make the princess a Thanksgiving crown. Since K is just learning to use scissors and wants to use them every chance she gets, this was her favorite craft to make. I cut out the feathers (totally just eyeballed the shape), and then I let her snip the edges to fringe the feathers. She can’t wait to show off her crown at Thanksgiving!

Hope you enjoy our crafts, Happy Thanksgiving!

FREE Personalized Thanksgiving Card from Tiny Prints

More free photo cards! Tiny Prints is giving away a FREE personalized Thanksgiving greeting card today, November 2. Just use coupon code FREETHX11 and the card will ship for free too. You can also choose to ship it directly to the recipient for $0.44. The freebie expires tonight at midnight (PST).

Tiny Prints is also offering some holiday card deals too. You can save $15 off orders of $99+, $30 off $149+, or $50 off $199+ through 11/8/11 when you use coupon code SALE50.

Create your FREE Thanksgiving card here.

Groupon Thanksgiving Weekend Specials

Groupon has a special Thanksgiving Weekend Specials page only accessible through this link here.  There are some great deals available that will make great gifts too.

• $10 for $20 Worth of Decadent Sweets at Chocolate.com
• $12 for $26 for Online Purchases at The Bean Coffee Co.
• $20 for $40 Worth of Books at Simon & Schuster’s Online Store
• $25 for $75 for use in Barclay’s Wine online wine shop
• $10 for $25 of Nuts and Food at Nutty Guys

Check out all of the Thanksgiving Groupon deals here.

I am Thankful

Since the day after Halloween, when my daughter asked if we could go Trick or Treating again, we have been talking to her a lot about what she is thankful for and what that means. A simple explanation for a two year old, she has gotten excited about telling me all of the things she is thankful for. Although Christmas is already starting to overshadow Thanksgiving, it was important to us that she understand how it important it is to be thankful.

These are a few of the things my daughter regularly tells me she is thankful for:

• My friends – Ava, Bella, Olivia… and on and on
• Mama & Dada
• Smiles
• My doggies – Boo-Boo and Bella
• The animals
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
• and more

Her list makes me smile and each time she adds something different that we hadn’t talked about before I and I tell her, “Yes, we are thankful for that too.

Here is my own list of things I am thankful for:

• My husband, my rock
• My daughter, and her smiles
• Our health, and our blessings
• My family, and their love
• My neighbors, my friends
• My home
• Laughter
• and our many, many blessings

As we sit down tomorrow to enjoy a feast of turkey and all the fixin’s let us all remember to be thankful for the big things and the little things. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

And Thank YOU for reading my blog. Your comments and your emails make me smile each day, I wish you could all know how much it means to me that you take time out of your life to see what I have to share.