Family Fun Friday this week features Delicious Thanksgiving Recipe ideas including 12 Incredibly Delicious Thanksgiving Side Dishes, Mulled Apple Cider, homemade bread rolls, and over 60 gluten-free Thanksgiving-Day Recipes We’re also featuring a Thankful Tree, a craft for giving thanks, 10 Tips for Raising Grateful Children, 10 Essential Tools for Thanksgiving, a Thanksgiving Week Preparation Checklist, and some super fun kids activities with a Dinosaur Sticky Wall, Rainy Day Sensory Bin, Play Gel, and Natural-Colored Play Doh. You’ll never run out of ideas for family fun at Family Fun Friday!

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I’ve partnered with 30+ fabulous bloggers to bring you a special holiday series packed with crafts, activities, and festive family traditions. We’ve put together a phenomenal giveaway to help knock out your holiday shopping. From 11/3–11/17, you will have the opportunity to win 1 of 4 prize bundles for men, women, kids, and babies! The 4 prize bundles, valued at over $1,800, include gift certificates, toys, jewelry, and more! Many of the prizes are featured in the photos above. The four prize packs and their estimated retail values are as follows: Just think, you can have all of your Christmas gift shopping taken care of in one easy giveaway! It’s easy to enter to WIN, just click on this link to enter via Rafflecopter. Rafflecopter Entry Link: A Rafflecopter Giveaway

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Every week we feature the best link-ups on the web with free printables, games, activities, money-saving and organizing ideas, recipes and more. If you are looking for the best tips, links, resources, freebies and more – you’ve come to the right place! Welcome to the Family Fun Friday community. Family Fun Friday is all about connecting as a family. We feature great ideas for family fun, and things to help moms get things done so they have more time to spend doing what they love to do – be with family! If you like Family Fun Friday, help this blog party grow by giving it a +1 on Google+. Thanks so much!

Family Fun Friday

I love my co-hosts Danita, Selena, Misty, and Herchel. Your links get five times the exposure as they will show up on five blogs at the same time. Woo-Hoo! Each co-host is featuring her top picks from the party so you get an increased chance in being featured as well. Each featured post will be pinned by the hostesses so be sure to link up your best!

Meet our Family Fun Friday hostesses:


Monica created Family Fun Friday and blogs at HappyandBlessedHome.com where she shares free preschool tools and printables, encouraging words for moms, and ideas for having fun together as a family. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google + / Bloglovin’/ Instagram. Monica will feature Family Fun Posts.

Danita enjoys blogging about cooking and shares yummy recipes on her blog OTasteandSee. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google +. Danita will feature Delicious Recipes.

Selena is a homeschooling graduate and a homeschooling mom to four super special kids. She blogs at Look! We’re Learning! about unit studies, foreign language, and homeschooling with ADHD. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Instagram / Twitter.

Misty is passionate about women’s ministry and encouraging the hearts of wives and moms. You can check out her inspired posts on Beautiful Ashes. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google +. Misty will feature posts to encourage women and family fun.

Herchel enjoys blogging about parenting, organizing, crafting, and having good old-fashioned kid fun her blog Gym, Craft, Laundry. Follow: Blog / Facebook / Pinterest / Twitter /Google +. Herchel will feature organizing and family fun.

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Highlights and FUN FREEBIES!

This week I’m featuring a few of my FUN FREEBIES! I created some fun FREE Shields Printables with loads of ideas for Castle and Catapult Play. I’ve also published some Thankful Turkey FREE Printables with Thanksgiving Day Cards and Crafts for Kids – these make great gifts for grandparents, uncles, aunts and other caretakers. And if you want a jump start on Christmas you’ll love my FREE Nativity Puppets – great for animated storytelling. And last, but not least -I’ve compiled a list of 8 Tips for Teaching Toddlers Thankfulness and info on a fabulous FREE iPhone App.

Special Thanks

Thanks to all my blogging friends for linking up last week at Family Fun Friday. I have a special YouTube Video for you at Thank You All My Blogging Friends! So many great ideas, crafts and things to do! If you link up, you permit me to use your pictures/ideas as part of future posts and/or social media. Now on to some fabulous posts for moms.

Featured Bloggers:

Inspiring Traditions for Family Fun

Herchel from Gym, Craft, Laundry – has picked out some great ideas for family fun this week including a creating a Thankful Tree, a craft for giving thanks, 10 Tips for Raising Grateful Children, 10 Essential Tools for Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Week Preparation Checklist, and Banana Cream Pie. If you have a minute, please stop by and give her a little bloggy Facebook love!

These are Herchel’s picks but the editorial comment is from me. 🙂

Would you like a few tips on raising grateful children? You’ll enjoy this post from Krafts and Kiddos – 10 Tips for Raising grateful Children.
What a wonderful craft idea! Create bunting with images of the things your family is thankful for. More from Serving Pink Lemonade and her post on Thankful Bunting.
Three Kids and A Fish shared a craft that is not only beautiful but filled with purpose. Check out her 12 Days of Thankfulness Tree for some great ideas.
I always love Barb’s advice from A Life in Balance and this week she’s sharing 10 Essential Tools for Thanksgiving. If you stop by, let her know you are visiting from Family Fun Friday.
A Life in Balance also shared a Thanksgiving Week Preparation Checklist. Click over to find some helpful tips.
And if you’re looking for a Banana Cream Pie recipe, we’ve got you covered. Check out this delicious yummy dessert from Little House Living.

Delicious Thanksgiving Recipes

Looking for something special to serve your guests this Thanksgiving? Check out these fabulous Thanksgiving Day recipes including 12 Incredibly Delicious Thanksgiving Side Dishes, Mulled Apple Cider, homemade bread rolls, and over 60 gluten-free Thanksgiving-Day Recipes. You’ll find all this yummy goodness at O Taste and See. When you have a minute, let Danita know your favorite recipe, and please show her a little bloggy love on Facebook.

Encouraging Words for Moms

With tips for raising gratefull children, picking up the pieces when your life feels derailed, quite time tips, and life through its many seasons, Misty has rounded up A Little Bit of This and That on her blog Beautiful Ashes. If ya’ll have a minute please stop by Misty’s Facebook Page and show her a little bloggy love.

Free Printables for Family Fun and Homeschooling

This week Selena is featuring History for Kids and Sensory Play on her blog Look We’re Learning. With a super fun Dinosaur Sticky Wall, Rainy Day Sensory Bin, Play Gel, and Natural-Colored Play Doh, you’ll love all the fun ideas. If you have a minute, stop by Look We’re Learning and show Selena a little bloggy love on Facebook.

Thanks again for all your wonderful ideas! I hope these Family Friendly and Fun ideas inspire you.

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