Thanksgiving Wreath

With Thanksgiving coming up this weekend and the nature walk we did yesterday, I thought a fun activity might be to make a class wreath out of pine cones. Ideally, I wanted to use pine cones the students collected yesterday, but leading up to this i realized I would not be able to do this for two main reasons: I would need at leas 24 hours to bake the pine cones and when I went to the park to prepare the scavenger hunt lists, I realized there were not nearly as many pine cones as we would have needed. Regardless of this, I found pine cones on the weekend, cleaned and baked them (baking the pine cones for 5-7 hours makes the prickle open). This morning I held a conversation about things we are thankful for and wrote everything they said on the board. I was very impressed that they filled the whole board with at least 40 different answers. Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to take a picture of all their answers but they included things like friends and family, toys, food, God (we are in a Catholic school), trees, love, the sun, bees, forgiveness, and so much more. I then asked the students to pick one thing they were thankful for a had them write it on a small piece of stock paper and decorate it. When that was done I gave them each a pine cone to paint. When they were dry I tied their tags to their pine cones and arranged them into a wreath that represents the whole class as each student made a part of it.

Here is the final product: (names have been blurred out)

So we have sister, food, love, God, family, iPad, food, God, food, bees, sun, soil, bees, forgiveness, brother, mom and dad, people and love.

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