Especially for Thanksgiving! Turkey Napkin Rings - make these cute naapkin rings for Thanksgiving by Family Fun.com Free Software Free software that you can download from Link-up Parents.com: Games: Celebrity Match Game and Jigsaw puzzles by Ladies Home Journal Chihuahua Puzzles. On-line cute jigsaw puzzles. Jigzone: A new jigsaw puzzle every day. Things you just have to see because they are cool: Paul Sadowski.com: Find out all about the day you were born, including how the moon looked that day. AndreaMosiac: Create a Mosiac or two. Inspiring Thoughts.net: A beautiful flash movie that you can send to friends. Crazy Fads.com:Enjoy pictures of serious and silly fads from 1920 until now. Optical Illusion: You figure it out. Optical Illustion: Which hoop does the pencil pass through?

Making Gifts Cappucciano in a Jar: Make your own gifts. Instructions on how to make along with nutrition information. Find great ideas on how to dress up your food gifts HERE. Homemade Bath Oil with Fragrant Potpourri by Jane Lake Over the Hedge scrapbook pages right HERE - free from Hewlett Packard.

Free Cards Click here to downlad FREE friendship card Download your favorite Christmas Card and write your own message from Chronicle and SF Gate. Give a Party: Party Kits and Decorations by Hewlett Packard. Download a FREE Party Planner

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From ehow.com: Decorate and/or make costumes for every holiday including Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa and other holidays.

Free printable patterns for Thanksgiving, Christmas and other holidays by Better Homes and Gardens.

Paper Snowflake Patterns for children: Many patterns. Site also explains the science of falling snow.

Free Dinosaur Coloring Book

Free Coloring Books on all subjects from Celebrating Wildflowers to Billy, Maria and the Thunderstorm.

Crayola.com: arts and crafts, coloring, activities and how to get spots from colors off clothing.

Create your own stickers of Mom, Dad, school bus, pirates and more from Parenting.leehansen.com.

How about your very own business cards, posters, stationary, tags or flyers? It's all free from American Girl.com.

50 Easy free craft projects

Make a Family History Album

Make your dog or puppy these low fat cookies by All Free Crafts.com

Free Printables, coloring, crafts, recipes, family fun at Pastiche Family Portal

Hewlett-Packard: Create your own Calendar - Free! You could even make your friends or relatives a personal calendar, including photos for Christmas!

KinderGarden: Fun projects for you and your children that also teaches them how to interact with plants.

Preserving Thanksgiving Memories for Scrapbooking by Rachel Paxton Last year our family tried out a new way to preserve Thanksgiving memories, and the result was truly a treasured keepsake. A day or two before Thanksgiving, my daughter and I used a turkey rubber stamp to make place cards for all of our family members. We colored the place cards with colored pencils and wrote people's names on them with a metallic gold pen. We then cut up strips of paper to put into a small basket to distribute before Thanksgiving dinner. The day of Thanksgiving, after all of the guests had arrived, we handed out the slips of paper and asked everyone to write down something they were thankful for. Now you should have seen the looks I got! Keep in mind that there were family members of all ages, from young teenagers to adults. Most of them looked at me like I was crazy (because this memory-making stuff is all new to them), but I told them they had to do it before they could eat. So they all sat to write down what they were thankful for. Some came up with something very quickly, and others sat there perplexed and worried they were going to spell something wrong. Several didn't write anything down at all. The end result was a wide variety of very thoughtful answers. I put away the slips of paper, made sure to take some good family pictures (carving the turkey, eating dinner, visiting with each other, napping after dinner), and made sure to keep some of the place cards. I don't always get to my scrapbook pages immediately after an event like this. I do, however, make sure everything is in one place so that I can assemble my pages when I'm ready. I later went to the store to buy some pre-cut Thanksgiving and fall images for my scrapbook pages, and then framed my pictures with some coordinating cardstock pieces. I then laid out two scrapbook pages with the photos, a couple of the turkey place cards, and most of the slips of paper people had written on. I tried to arrange a person's slip of paper near their photo. My finished project was by no means fancy or a work of art, but it will always be an irreplaceable treasured family keepsake. Photos of finished project: http://www.crafty-moms.com/scrapbooking/sample_layouts_4.shtml Rachel Paxton is a freelance writer and mom of four. For scrapbooking, card making, gift-giving ideas, and more family memory-making activities, visit http://www.crafty-moms.com. Article Source: www.ladypens.com

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Family Fun!  Web Album Generator: Free! Create your own photo album. Pastiche Family Portal-Printables, Articles, Family Fun How to Make a Terrarium - a fun and fast way to do a project as a family. This makes a beautiful gift for most any ocassion: My article on Searchwarp. Click here to see more fun projects: Fran's Free Fantastic Family Fun!