Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving
We have very eclectic traditions at Thanksgiving that blend eclectic food, thankfulness, Scriptures, history, remembering the poor, praying a personal blessing over each person present, and having fun together. We only rarely consume turkey for Thanksgiving, but we do enjoy a good meal together, so anything is possible! We tend to have an assortment of dishes as everyone contributes what they would like to make (scroll down for menus). We recently started a Thanksgiving journal in which each person present writes an entry. We look forward to adding to that each year. In 2018, after agreeing that we are most thankful to God for one another, we shared an experience we were thankful for in the past year and an opportunity to help someone else in the last year for which we are thankful. Scroll down for other samples of Scriptures, activities, and other documents. A fun tradition we have closed with some years has been our “Sculley Family music / art / drama [MAD] competition”.

Thanksgiving menus:
2018:
Dishes: Brisket; Cheese & vegetable pie; Cranberry sauce; Green bean casserole; Ham, cheese & vegetable pie; Mac ‘n’ cheese; Mexican casserole; Scalloped sweet potatoes au gratin; Vegetarian stuffing
Desserts: Brownies, Caramel apple grapes, Orasnice (walnut cookies), Pumpkin pie chocolate chip cookies
Drinks: red & white sparkling grape juice

2017:
Dishes: Aussie meat pies, Aussie sausage rolls, Falafels (with pita bread, hummus, tomatoes, green bell peppers, avocados), Green bean casserole, Cascade’s sweet potato pie, Mac ‘n’ cheese, Arepas and hogao
Desserts: Oatmeal chocolate chunk cookies, Peanut butter bars, Tres leches, Pecan pie, Chocolate no-bake cookies
Drinks: Sparkling drinks

Thanksgiving turkey feathers:

Thanksgiving Scriptures:
I got these from Pinterest but didn’t note who created them – I will give you credit if you let me know!

The Story of Thanksgiving:

George Washington’s Thanksgiving proclamation:

Thanksgiving – the remedy for a rotten attitude:

20 Questions for Thanksgiving:

Conversation Starters for Thanksgiving:

Sculley Family music / art / drama [MAD] competition
2017 winners were the Music team (Paul, Cascade, Diego, Ian), who brought their musical stylings to a poem about Shells from “Poetry for the Soul” – Cascade played the ukelele, Diego played the pan pipes, Ian played the drum, and Paul gave an occasional choo-choo on the train whistle. Very entertaining!
2016: we didn’t do this (inexplicably!)
2015 winners were the Art team (Peter, Cascade, Esther), who recreated “The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries” by Jacques-Louis David, using fingerpaints! Beautiful!