Pumpkin Pie in a Bag!

The Tuesday before Thanksgiving was spent finishing work and making a snack! We made pumpkin pie ... in a bag! The kids had a blast helping make our snack and took their leftovers home. Hopefully they didn't make a big mess with their baggies.

Everyone got a turn to scoop out the pumpkin from the can, which worked out great for me because I cannot STAND pumpkin pie filling.

Once all of the pumpkin was scooped out, I added our vanilla pudding mix ...

... cinnamon ...

... and milk.

Then, it was time to knead it all together! We passed the bag around the table and everyone got a change to mix up our squishy mess in a bag. They were so cute helping each other hold the bag so it wouldn't fall over.

After our pumpkin and pudding was all mixed up together, I cut a hole in the corner of the gallon bag and squeezed some into a snack bag for each of the kiddos.

Once everyone had their bag of pumpkin pie filling, the cut a corner of their bag off and squeezed it onto their graham crackers.

We put their cut baggies into another baggie for them to take their pumpkin pie home in.

Click here to download a copy of our pumpkin pie in a bag recipe!

Thanksgiving!

During our Thanksgiving "weeks" (which was 7 days), the kids did a lot of different Thanksgiving themed activities in their stations throughout the day.

We played this super fun sight word game called Catch That Turkey!  The kids drew cards in a pile, read the sight word, then got to spin the spinner if they read the word correctly. The player who got to the end of their page first was the winner. We used counters the first time so we could play over and over, but later in the week they colored their circles in.

The day after our Thanksgiving lunch, the kids worked on building words, blending words, playing their turkey sight word game in small groups and writing about different Fall pictures they chose.

For each word they built correctly after I called it out, they got to keep the word card!

The next week was a super short week with only 2 days of school! We did a lot of math, science and social studies those days since it was a full week. In math, the kids did a Nearpod assessment with counting, writing and representing numbers; used linking cubes to build Thanksgiving foods; and showed greater than and less than with Thanksgiving pictures. I'm not sure what was going on with my phone, but the pictures were really blurry that day!

We Pop See Ko'd before we left ... and all had a great Thanksgiving Break!