While Thanksgiving always brings to mind food and family, it might also bring to mind the voyage of The Mayflower. If your children aren’t old enough to have learned about The Mayflower in school, creating these sailboat straws with them is a good opportunity to teach them about the Mayflower’s journey, eventual settlement at Plymouth Rock, and how these events created the The First Thanksgiving.
Sailboat Straws
Cut two rectangles out of colored construction paper. Make one rectangle slightly smaller than the other as shown in the photos below.
If you’d like to use your straws as place cards, write the names of your guests on the larger rectangle.
Fold each of your rectangles in half and use an individual hole puncher to punch a hole directly in the center of the rectangle. Unfold your rectangle. There should now be two holes in each rectangle.
Next, get a straw and your larger rectangle. Slide the straw through both holes in the rectangle. Repeat with the smaller rectangle. Use the photos below as a reference.
Place your straws in apple cider or your favorite fall drink!
Once you’ve created these Sailboat Straws, continue the learning in the kitchen with a Homemade Apple Cider.
Kids can help by:
Pouring the apple juice.
Placing the cinnamon and nutmeg into the saucepan.
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