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Thanksgiving Centerpieces

I have two centerpiece ideas today. One is pretty quick and easy and the other is still easy but a bit more time intense. We’re having Thanksgiving dinner start at 5 tomorrow so I could fill the table with pretty candles. That means we need to have appetizers to keep the hanger at bay. We’re doing a relish tray and an antipasti tray. I wanted to antipasti platter to have a big more impact so I made a cornucopia to have it all spilling out of. You’ll need a large cup or water bottle, tin foil and dough. I used pizza crust but I’ve read that any dough besides the biscuit dough will work great.
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Teaching a Toddler: Thanksgiving Edition

Between trying to get the house ready to host Thanksgiving and Brielle cutting 3 molars at once we didn’t end up doing a lot of our toddler activities. We got in a few though. We had a Thanksgiving week and the things we did do were awesome! We went to Kneaders and split a pumpkin cookie, they were out of turkeys 🙁
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Edible Turkey Centerpiece

 I’m hosting Thanksgiving at my house this year. We’re having an adult table and a kid’s table so I need two very different kinds of centerpieces. I saw something similar on Pinterest that I thought with a few tweaks would be a perfect, fun and not to mention delicious centerpiece for the kid’s table! Now for the easiest tutorial. I started by melting down chocolate chips (I’m sure everyone knows this trick already but if not…if you don’t have a double broiler pot just stick a glass bowl over a boiling pot of water to melt your chocolate) and then once the chocolate was a smooth consistence I dipped and rolled all the pretzels and placed them on wax paper to cool. I used various kinds of sprinkles to give texture and color. Walmart has one that has several different colors and textures all in one container. I popped them in the fridge to set the chocolate for 20 minutes.pretzels

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Thanksgiving Freebie

We have a problem at my parent’s house. Leftovers come into their home and when the owner comes back, so excited to devour their savory item, it’s vanished. The thief in the night is my brother and he doesn’t discriminate, dessert or half of a pasta dish, it doesn’t matter he eats them all. We knew he had a problem when Scott and I dropped them off some frosted dog cookies from Dog Bakery in Park City at my parent’s so they could give them to our family dog, Ernie. My mom woke up the next morning and there were the dog cookies sitting on the kitchen counter with one half eaten cookie beside it. My brother came upstairs later that afternoon and made mention of the terrible cookies that somebody had left. He was the only one not crying with laughing after being told he ate a dog cookie! We thought that would teach him some manners on respecting people’s leftovers but so far no luck. I made these to give my family in hopes that it’ll deter him just a little bit when it comes to the holy grail of leftovers…Thanksgiving! I’m not holding my breath though. In case you too have a leftover thief in your house I thought I’d offer it as a Thanksgiving freebie! Just right click and save it as a full size. Enjoy those leftovers!
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