We read quite a few books about Thanksgiving this year. I will share them in my history post later this week. One thing that Anna found most interesting is food choices of colonists and Indians. She had a lot of fun putting Thanksgiving dinners with her play food. Somehow she never gets to an actual feast – she is a lot more interested in selecting her food and in cooking. It takes a good hour, then she switches to playing something else.
I added Thanksgiving outfits to Anna’s paper 
dolls collection. She was very pleased with them. She announced that her dolls are “American children who just pretend to be Pilgrims”. She kept buying Thanksgiving clothes in the shop and then getting the dolls dressed. Then she decided that it’s time for the dolls to have Thanksgiving dinner too. So she drew some Thanksgiving food – mashed potatoes, pies, 
peas and, of course, turkey, and cut the foods out. It’s funny how little she cares for perfection when she does these self-directed projects and how long she can focus on them. It’s a very different attitude than when she does guided projects – they might look better but she is not nearly as invested in them as in these simple toys that came from her own creative core.
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Emma spends hours setting up tea parties, and never seems to get around to the tea party - just like Anna with her feasts. And that is really neat that she drew Thanksgiving food for her paper dolls!
My kids tend to be the same way. I think that's part of why I stopped trying to say you have to do it this way.
I love the paper food and the paper clothes! JC loves to set the table and spend time preparing food for tea parties. Other than that, she loves playing with zoo animals and building homes for them. It's wonderful to see them enjoy these activities with little input from us!
It depends on the activity that we are doing. I do see more wanting of directed activities from Selena since we have taken such a long break from them.
I like the idea of drawing food for the paper dolls. Did you tell her the Pilgrims, and Natives were American children? :)
I remember how much I used to love playing with paper dolls when I was a little girl! She really looks like she is enjoying them.
Totally unrelated to this post but I thought I would share a link with you. I know that you have talked about this topic a few times. Its to a poll and I thought the results were very interesting.
http://www.babycenter.com/viewPollResults.htm?pollId=75382
I love paper dolls! I love that she made them Thanksgiving dinner. So cute!
I think it is so sweet how much fun Anna is having with her paper dolls lately.
We've read lots of wonderful Thanksgiving books this year too. I have enjoyed studying and reading about Thanksgiving more than ever this year, and learned a lot myself too!
I'll be looking forward to seeing the books y'all have been reading Saturday!
Love these words;
" hey might look better but she is not nearly as invested in them as in these simple toys that came from her own creative core."
So true!
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