Sweet Potato Frosting

Ingredients Needed:
2 lb. confectioners' sugar
1 c. mashed sweet potatoes
1/2 lb. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup milk (if necessary)
cinnamon to taste

Directions:
Cream butter with one pound of sugar.  Add vanilla and sweet potatoes. 
Mix in the remaining sugar and a dash of cinnamon (adding milk if needed.)  Use
 this frosting to decorate cupcakes, cookies, or a cake.  Invite parents to join your
 class and share the treats.  Before serving, have the children recite the poem below.

I wanted to make a special treat
For this Thanksgiving Day.
After thinking long and hard,
I chose a special way.
Not pumpkin pie or turkey or stew...
Instead I made a sweet potato treat for you!

Cheesy Harvesttime Treats

Roll right in for these tasty treats.

(makes 28)

Ingredients Needed:
4 ounces margarine, softened
1 cup grated cheddar cheese
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup Rice Krispies cereal

Directions:
Mix together the softened margarine and grated cheese. Add the flour
 and cereal and mix well. Roll into gumball-sized balls. Place the balls
 on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350° F for ten minutes.

No Bake Pumpkin Pie

(Individual recipe)

Ingredients Needed:

small custard-sized pie crusts
2 tablespoons canned pumpkin
1 tablespoon marshmallow creme
1 tablespoon prepared whipped topping
sprinkle of cinnamon

Directions:
Mix all ingredients together and pour into the crust.
The recipe is then ready to eat; if you wish, it may be refrigerated or frozen.

Edible Apple Turkey

Insert toothpicks into an apple to create tail feathers.  Have the children fill the
 toothpicks with goodies such as raisins, colored miniature marshmallows, chunks
 of cheese, and so on.  Draw a turkey head and cut it from cardboard.  Have children color the
 facial features; then the teacher makes a small slit in the apple with a knife to insert the head inside.

Turkey Snack

We used a fudge striped cookie for the feathers, a nutter butter
 cookie on  top for his head and neck, 2 choc chips for eyes,
 a candy corn for his beak  and a red hot next to his beak.

Turkey Toast

Use a large turkey shaped cookie cutter to cut out shape from wheat bread.
Spread the whole shape with peanut butter, Use a raisin for and eye, a slice
of a red gummy worm for the wattle, and fruit loops for the tail feathers.
Tastes good, and kids love it! (warning, many children are allergic to
peanut butter...check with parents first)

Hot Dog Canoes

Cut hot dogs in half. Use two refrigerator biscuits. Let the children pat and stretch
 each biscuit so it makes a rectangle longer than the hot dog. Wrap the biscuits around
 the hot dog and pinch up the ends to look like a canoe. Bake about 10 minutes at 375.

Indian Corn Cakes

To make Indian corn cakes we use inexpensive Jiffy corn muffin mix.
The corn cakes are mixed with 1 egg, milk, and t of shortening. These
are fried in an electric skillet. We serve them with homemade butter.

Peanut Butter Turkeys

Cut turkey shapes out of slices of wheat bread with a cookie cutter.
Let your children spread peanut butter on the shapes. Then give
 them some grated carrot to sprinkle onto their turkeys for feathers.

Turkeys

For each child you need:
1 full size rice cake
peanut butter
pretzel sticks
2 mini m & ms
1 candy corn
2 snip-its licorice

Directions:
Spread peanut butter on the rice cake.
Arrange pretzel sticks in a fan as tail feathers (half will
be off the rice cake. The m&ms will be eyes, the
candy corn will be the beak. The licorice are the feet.
Cute and yummy! We made these last year, writing names with icing as
 our Thanksgiving dinner place cards!

Turkey Salad

Ingredients Needed:
2 cups chopped cooked turkey
2 T. mayonnaise
1 T. pickle relish
1/8 cup finely chopped celery

Directions:
Mix ingredients together and serve on toast and crackers. 
Note: You will need to adjust the recipe according to the size of the class.

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