Free Thanksgiving Coloring Pages and Christmas Gift Suggestions

Here are several coloring pages that will pop up as you cursor over them.

In elementary at Thanksgiving time, we made turkeys in the first and second grades with a potato, toothpicks for legs, and for the tail, wings, and head - cutouts from colored papers.

It was n the first grade classroom, that I learned what a rotten potato smelled like! We had left the potato turkeys over the long Thanksgiving weekend and they did not smell pretty when we returned. Whew! They were fun to make, though. (Now I would worry about wasting a potato.)

The vegetables below make fun coloring objects and can help teach younger children about nutrition. All ages can enjoy the animated characters of onion, potato and carrot. They are all likely to appear on the dining room table for dinner on Thanksgiving or Christmas.

Since potatoes and opinions come in so many colors, children can experiment with their own ideas as they color.

With Christmas and Kwanzaa rush onto your calendar just around the corner from Thanksgiving They, along with other Fall and Winter Holidays, can and with numerous gift-giving challenges for parents and friends.

You might be interested in the Classic Toy Museum. Do you remember any of these?-

• Colorforms
• Viewmaster
• Mr. Potato Head
• Tinker Toys
• Ant Farms
• Wooly Willy
• Wheel-Lo

There is even a Pez Musum.

How about Magna Doodle and Etch-a-Sketch?™

That company is still around and operating n Ohio. Ohio Art opened in 1908. Today, they also make lithographic parts for large corporations like Disney, Starbucks, Altoids and Coca-Cola. See the links below for retro toys from Ohio Art.

Candy from the early 20th century is also still dsitributed in Ohio at the Old Time Candy Company.

This corporation puts together gift packs for gift giving as well as individual orders. It's fun just to look at their online catalogue. I've never seen some of these candies before, but my parents, grandparents, and great grandparents surely enjoyed some of them.

They even have FIZZIES!

Old Time Candy Company

Website: http://www.oldtimecandy.com/

Street Address:

350 Commerce Drive East

LaGrange, OH 44050

1-866-WAX-LIPS (866-929-5477)

During October in Canada and November in USA, we speak of Indian Corn, the number of different varieties of corn grown when the white settler met the Native North Americans for the first time. Ears with many colors on the same cob are often wired together and hung on the front door of the home as a welcome during the Thanksgiving Season.