Family devotionals, turkey crafts, 100+ homemade Christmas gift ideas, a $1,000 Cash Giveaway, Cinnamon Apple Pork Roast, Spanish Chicken and Rice, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups cupcakes, and so much more are featured this week at Family Fun Friday!

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In this book you’ll find some amazing and awesome recipes for holiday cooking with real food (i.e. no high fruitcose corn syrup, or other “funny” stuff). So you can eat healthy and delicious food throughout the holidays!

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If you’re a mom keep reading because we have some wonderful fun ideas to inspire you with your little ones and family. My blogging friends are linking up craft ideas, fun in the kitchen, preschool & homeschool ideas, and ways to spend time as a family. My blog is growing but I need your help, please like my facebook page or PIN a button and help spread the word about HappyandBlessedHome.com. Thanks so much.

AND, don’t forget to enter to WIN a $1,000 CASH Giveaway. A whole bunch of bloggers teamed up to bless someone this Christmas and I hope that someone reading and following on Happy and Blessed Home is a WINNER.

This year I’ve also created a super fun Christmas Fun for Preschoolers Activity Pack. I’m selling it as a way to raise funds to support my blogging. It’s only $1.99 and includes 36 Fun Activities for Preschoolers. You can dress a snowman, decorate a Christmas tree, count reindeer and so much more. Click the link to read more.

This week I created 3o FREE Activities and Printables for teaching preschoolers how to read the letter “D” and short words that start in the letter “D” this week. To read more about these awesome printables, follow the link. Letter D.

I’d also like to introduce everyone to my friend Chelsey Hall and new co-host from Life Unabridged. Chelsey blogs about her real adventures in motherhood, marriage, homemaking, and homeschooling.

Chelsey has graciously agreed to co-host Family Fun Friday with me and since she has many years of experience in homeschooling, Chelsey selected and wrote about our features for learning here at Family Fun Friday. If you have a minute, please show Chelsey some love by liking her facebook page. It’s not required or anything but its a nice way to thank her for putting together some of our features.

Thanks to all my blogging friends for linking up last week at Family Fun Friday. I have a special YouTube Video for you at Thank You All My Blogging Friends! So many great ideas, crafts and things to do! If you link up, you permit me to use your pictures/ideas as part of future posts and/or social media. Now on to some fabulous posts for moms.

Featured Bloggers:

Family Fun

Ya’ll are such an inspiration! I love all your family friendly ideas.

1. Over at DIY with Grant and Kiley you can get personailzed Family Handprint Turkey. Their family turkey is made of of wood and is adorable!

2. The Proverbial Homemaker shared a 7-Day Thanksgiving Family Devotion (Printable Scripture) based on seven days on Psalm 105. If you follow Tauna’s link she also points to a FREE download of Thanksgiving worship music by Seeds Family Worship.

3. Granparents Plus shared a Devotional for Familes at Thanksgiving and she talks about placing five grains of corn at each plate to remind everyone of the hardships endured by the pilgrims in those early days. Her post is full of warm, wonderful history and scripture.

4. Barb at A Life in Balance shared a great take on a Thanksgiving Tree – it’s an Acts of Service Tree. She shares some wonderful ideas for getting families involved in acts of service. Great idea Bard – thanks for sharing.

5. In case you would like to get a jump start on Christmas Gifts, check out this list of 100 Homemade Christmas Gifts by Alice over at Mums Make Lists.

6. AND, Paradise Praises also shared a Huge list of Gifts Kids can Make for Christmas. Between these two lists you’ll have plenty of great ideas for handmade Christmas Gifts.

Delicious Recipes

This week we’re featuring some yummy slow cooker and savory recipes. Enjoy! 1. Jodie Fitz shared a fun and healthy After School Thanksgiving Snack that’s Healthy. Her fruit turkey is super cute!

2. A Mama’s Story shared Cinnamon Apple Pork Roast {Slow Cooker Recipe} I like the combination of apple and pork.

3. Shannon at Cozy Country Living shared her Slow Cooker Spanish Chicken and Rice . During this season of extra busyness, slow cooker meals are so convenient.

4. Flavors by Four created these Reese’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes for her grandfather’s 86th Birthday. What a perfect treat!

5. Mary Ellen from Thats My Home posted these decadent looking Cinnamon Twist Sticks. They look like they would flake and melt in your mouth!

6. Krystal from My Life of Travels and Adventures shared a great recipe for Turkey called Turkey Bruschetta. I never would have thought of it. Thanks Krystal!

Learning

Trees, Leaves and Turkey’s… it’s fall around here and I’ve been so inspired by all the great fall crafts for learning and fun!

The following features are highlights selected by my co-host Chelsey Hall.

1. At Crafty Journal, they are getting into the Thanksgiving spirit with Paper Plate Pop Up Turkey that even young toddlers can help make. A great tool for teaching colors and even counting while adding the feathers!

2. These Season Tree Sun Catchers are way too cute and look like so much fun to make. Jill, from Enchanted Homeschool Mom, gives great step by step instructions using oil pastels and a lamenating machine for a fun fall craft.

3. I am always on the lookout for crafts to do using paper bags. Kathy, from Life on Lakeshore Drive has a super cute idea for a Paper Bag Turkey. These would make a great centerpiece for your table on Thanksgiving Day!

4. I love using tactile hands-on learning for the children. One Mommy shares Leaf Activities for Preschoolers that brings the outdoors in, to help the kiddos learn texture, color and sorting. There are so many different learning concepts you can gain just from a few leaves!

5. I’m not sure what it is, but felt boards have always made me a little giddy. I think it is the “teacher” side of me! Lisette from Where Imagination Grows shares the cutest felt board characters and how she uses them for Thanksgiving Felt Board Play. She said, “the whole set took me about an hour to make but it was a favorite activity last year and got a lot of use.” I love the idea she mentions for printing out clip art, laminating and then cluing to the felt. Easy Peasy and a great way to teach the history of Thanksgiving!

6. With Thanksgiving just around the corner, Sarah from Thank You Honey has a Best of Thanksgiving Crafts Roundup, of Turkey crafts she has done with her kids over the years. My favorite… the thanksgiving cards. These are on my list to do this year!

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