Cut Paper Thanksgiving Dinner

"E" (age 8) had to plan a Thanksgiving dinner

as one of her November projects for school this month.

I thought she would just make a seating chart, 

write a menu, and maybe copy a recipe. 

 Nope... she wanted to make a full-size reproduction 

of our Thanksgiving table so that's just what she's been working on 

for the past three weeks. She finished it this weekend and it's adorable.

She used brown contractor's paper to roll out a table 

and made all of the plates and cut paper food out of scrap-booking paper

and construction paper. She even made place cards for

each family member, water glasses out of watercolor paper,

and little forks, knives, spoons out of gold paper.

Here are some peaches stuffed with sweet potatoes and stuffing.

She even asked us to trace our hands and sign on the "tablecloth" just like we do 

at my mom's house every year.

Signing the table cloth for my niece's first thanksgiving (2009).

Here's my favorite part. 

Her kid's meal for my niece. 

Check out the cotton ball mashed potatoes and the crinkly paper crackers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Fondly

Pink and Green Mama