FHE with young kids #7 -- Thanksgiving countdown, days of the week

 We made this Thanksgiving countdown calender for home evening last night:

Our thanksgiving calender countdown. The bottom has pictures of things that make us happy (things that we are grateful for). Bottom right brown blob is an elevator). We are going to put a star on each day as we countdown to Thanksgiving

Between explaining what a calender was, trying to go over the days, trying to explain what gratitude meant, drawing the pictures, asking what we're grateful / happy for, the coloring, plus an opening song and prayer and ice cream at the end, we were busy for a good 45 minutes. One of our longer FHE's, and I think it was a good one. Good things about today's activity:

• Kids started learning their days of the week
• Kids started to understand better what gratitude is
• We get to revisit the calender every day and have a fun time marking in the current day with a star
• Hopefully it will make them excited for Thanksgiving
• Maybe for once our three year old will start to really understand what we mean by "today" or "yesterday" or "tomorrow"

We were going to watch the video of the 10 lepers, but by the time we finished the calender we were all exhausted and just wanted to eat ice cream. So that's what we did.