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Give Thanks!

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Included in “Give Thanks!” are journaling pages, the history

of Thanksgiving in the U.S., Thanksgiving recipes, poems and

hymns of gratitude, and memory verses of praise and

thankfulness. Enjoy reading through “Give Thanks!” and

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Throughout the book, you will see symbols like these for

different activities:

Thanksgiving History or Stories and Scriptures

Thanksgiving Crafts or Projects

Thanksgiving Recipes

Gratitude Journal or Writing Project

Thanksgiving Traditions

Thanksgiving Hymns

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Contents

THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING………………….…...PAGE 5

A New World

Pilgrim Math

Pilgrim Children

The Plymouth Colony

Growing Corn

Indian Pudding

A Thankful Heart

Friendship with the Indians

An Indian Village

Giving Thanks to God

“The Story of the Pilgrims” Booklet

Thanksgiving Feast

Pilgrim Crafts

Pilgrim and Indian Paper Dolls

Other Thanksgivings

A Presidential Proclamation

An Official Holiday for the U.S.

THANKSGIVING POEMS AND THOUGHTS…………….PAGE 34

Give Thanks!

“Thanksgiving” ~ Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer

A Thanksgiving Poem

“We Thank Thee” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We Thank Thee” Booklet

“Over the River” ~Linda Maria Child

A Thanksgiving Memory

THANKSGIVING HYMNS……………………………..PAGE 48

“We Gather Together”

“Come, Ye Thankful People, Come”

“Count Your Many Blessings”

“Praise God From Whom All Blessings Flow”

“For the Beauty of the Earth”

“Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing”


Contents

THANKSGIVING MEMORY VERSES………………….PAGE 68

THANKSGIVING RECIPES AND ACTIVITIES………......PAGE 73

Pilgrim and Indian Napkin Rings

Thanksgiving Dinner Place Cards

Thanksgiving Recipes for Kids

Easy-to-make Pumpkin Bars

Easy-to-make Pumpkin Pancakes

Easy-to-make Pumpkin Pie

Easy-to-make Pumpkin Cheesecake

Pumpkin Cookies

Yummy Pumpkin Dip

Mulled Cider

Toasted Treats

Frontier Fudge

Crockpot Carmel Apples

Harvest Popcorn

Holiday Spice Potpourrie

Maple Acorn Squash

Maple Glazed Sweet Potatoes

Layered Orange Sweet Potatoes

Apple Candle Holder

Thanksgiving Corn Husk Dolls

Mr. Turkey

Thanksgiving Words

Thanksgiving Bingo

Gratitude Journaling Pages

“The man who forgets

to be thankful has

fallen asleep in life”

~Robert Louis

Stevenson


A New World

JOURNEY TO A NEW WORLD

In the fall of 1621, a small group of 50 immigrants to America had much to give

thanks for. They had survived a long, hard winter in a new world, planted crops in

the spring, and at last, had a successful harvest. They praised God for their

blessings and held a celebration to show their thanks...

The Pilgrims were a group of people who were looking for a place where they

could have the freedom to worship God they way they thought was right. They

left England and went to Holland because of religious persecution. Later, they had

to leave Holland, too. They journey back to England and took a ship, the

Mayflower, to the New World. The ship also carried other passengers who wanted

to go to the New World to find land or adventure.

When the Pilgrims first landed in America, it was late in the year. The weather

was already getting cold. They explored the area and found a place where they

wanted to build their settlement. They quickly set to work on a “Common House”

for storage and shelter. Then family homes were built.

On Sundays, the Pilgrims sang Psalms and listened to sermons by their religious

leader, William Brewster. Sunday was the only day that the Pilgrims did not

work. They even worked on Christmas!

Most of the Pilgrims slept aboard the ship that first winter while the houses were

being built. It was a long and difficult time. There was not enough food. Nearly

1. The Pilgrims left England to find religious freedom.

They sailed first to Holland in 1609, and later to

America, in September 1620.

2. The Pilgrims landed near Cape Cod (Massachusetts) after

66 long days of sailing across the Atlantic in the Mayflower.


Pilgrim Math PILGRIM MATH

1. The Pilgrims sailed for 66

days to reach Massachusetts

Bay. If they left England on

September 6, 1620, when did

they arrive in the New World?

2. Look at the chart on the

right. How many children

sailed on the Mayflower?

3. How many adults and servants were aboard the ship?

4. Use the chart above to add up the number of Pilgrims (and

their friends) who sailed on the Mayflower. Add in 23 crew

members. How many people were on the ship all together?

5. Challenge Question: The Pilgrims set sail from England on

September 6, 1620 and sailed for 66 days before landing in

America. Then they lived on board the ship for about another

120 days before moving ashore to build houses. In what month

did they move off of the Mayflower?

Who sailed on the Mayflower?

43 men

21 women

22 boys

8 girls

8 servants


Pilgrim Children

Have you ever wondered about Pilgrim children who came across on the Mayflower?

Most families didn’t bring their children, especially girls, because they thought that

pioneering life was too difficult. But the children on the Mayflower were actually healthier than

the adults, with almost all of them living through the first long winter when 50% of the Pilgrims

died. There were 22 boys and 8 girls on the Mayflower. One baby, Oceanus, was born on the

journey across the ocean. Here are the stories of four of the Pilgrim children.

Henry Samson was 17 when he crossed the Atlantic on the Mayflower. He was travelling with his aunt and uncle, Edward and Ann Tilley. Edward’s

brother, John had brought his wife Joan and a 13-year-old daughter, Elizabeth

on the journey, too. Unfortunately, Edward, Ann, John and Joan all died

during the first winter, leaving Henry alone. Henry later married and

became a tax collector and constable.

Elizabeth Tilley had just had her 13th birthday when she left England on the Mayflower. She and her parents, John and Joan, hoped that they would

find a prosperous new life in America. Elizabeth was overjoyed to reach land at

last! But during the first long winter, both of Elizabeth’s parents died, along

with her aunt and uncle. Elizabeth survived and later married John Howland,

who was 21 when he boarded the Mayflower. They had several children and

even some famous descendants: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President

George W. Bush, poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (read his poem “We Thank

Thee” in the Thanksgiving poems section of this book), and….Joseph Smith!

Mary Chilton was 13 years old when she sailed to America with her parents. Since there were only 8 girls on board the ship, she and Elizabeth

Tilley must have been friends. They must have enjoyed each other’s company

during the long months crossing the ocean. Mary was the first female to step off

the ship onto New England soil! She would have been so excited about this new

land she would soon call home. But Mary’s joy didn’t last. Her father was one

of the first people who died after the ship had landed. Her mother also died later

that winter. When she was older, she married John Winslow, and they had ten

children.

Bartholomew Allerton and his sisters, Remember and Mary, boarded the Mayflower when Bartholomew was only eight years old. His

mother was pregnant and gave birth on board the ship in Plymouth Harbor in

December 1620. The baby was still born, and his mother died a few weeks later.

Bartholomew must have been sad to lose his mother, but his father and sisters

survived the winter, so he had more family than most children.


The Plymouth Colony

PLYMOUTH WORDS. How many new words can you make from the letters in:

Plymouth Colony

1. _______________________________

2. _______________________________

3. _______________________________

4. _______________________________

5. _______________________________

6. _______________________________

7. _______________________________

8. _______________________________

9. _______________________________

10. _______________________________

11. _______________________________

12. _______________________________

MAP OF PLYMOUTH. The

Pilgrims sailed for 66 days from

Plymouth, England to reach their

new home in

America. They

landed much

farther north than

they had planned,

just near Cape Cod, in what is now

Massachusetts. They called their new

colony Plymouth, after the place they

had departed from England.



The words to this well loved hymn of thanks were written by Robert Robinson

in 1758. The melody was composed by John Wyeth in 1813. The words remind us

that it is God that is the source of all of our blessings.

Come, Thou Fount of every blessing,

Tune my heart to sing Thy grace;

Streams of mercy, never ceasing,

Call for songs of loudest praise.

Teach me some melodious sonnet,

Sung by flaming tongues above.

Praise the mount! I’m fixed upon it,

Mount of Thy redeeming love.

Sorrowing I shall be in spirit,

Till released from flesh and sin,

Yet from what I do inherit,

Here Thy praises I’ll begin;

Here I raise my Ebenezer;

Here by Thy great help I’ve come;

And I hope, by Thy good pleasure,

Safely to arrive at home.

Jesus sought me when a stranger,

Wandering from the fold of God;

He, to rescue me from danger,

Interposed His precious blood;

How His kindness yet pursues me

Mortal tongue can never tell,

Clothed in flesh, till death shall loose me

I cannot proclaim it well.

O to grace how great a debtor

Daily I’m constrained to be!

Let Thy goodness, like a fetter,

Bind my wandering heart to Thee.

Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it,

Prone to leave the God I love;

Here’s my heart, O take and seal it,

Seal it for Thy courts above.

O that day when freed from sinning,

I shall see Thy lovely face;

Clothed then in blood washed linen

How I’ll sing Thy sovereign grace;

Come, my Lord, no longer tarry,

Take my ransomed soul away;

Send thine angels now to carry

Me to realms of endless day.

Nothing is more honorable than

a grateful heart. ~Seneca



“Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace; Streams of mercy, never ceasing, Call for songs of loudest praise.”

~Robert Robinson

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Read and learn the words to the Thanksgiving hymn below. Then copy the verse onto the lines below.



“Come, Thou Fount of every blessing, Tune my heart to sing Thy grace.” ~Robert Robinson

Read and learn the words to the Thanksgiving hymn below. Then copy the verse onto the lines below.


Thanksgiving Bingo

Psalm 107:1

"Give thanks unto the Lord."

Psalm 100:4 "Enter into his

gates with

thanksgiving."

Psalm 95:2

"Let us come

before his presence with

thanksgiving."

Hebrews 13:15

"Let us offer the

sacrifice of praise to God

continually."

Hebrews 13:15

"Let us offer the

sacrifice of praise to God

continually."

Happy Thanksgiving

(free space)

Psalm 147:7: "Sing unto the

LORD with

thanksgiving."

Ephesians 5:20 "Giving thanks

always for all

things."

Colossians 3:17

"Whatsoever ye do in word or

deed, do all in

the name of the

Lord Jesus."

1 Chronicles

29:11,13

"Thine, O Lord is

the greatness."

Philippians 4:6 "By prayer and

supplication with

thanksgiving."

Colossians 4:2

"Continue in

prayer."


Gratitude Journal

Use these pages to journal about things you are grateful for.

“Being enriched in every thing to all

bountifulness, which causeth through

us thanksgiving to God.” —2 Cor. 9:11

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