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Sparky's Thanksgiving
Quilting Bee
Wondering how to liven up Thanksgiving dinner? How about making a cool quilt?
Everyone will have so much fun they won’t want to go home.
What you need: felt squares (or other material cut in squares), glue, glitter,
markers, puff paint, scraps of material, construction paper.
Before Thanksgiving
What to do:
1. Ask a grown-up for a list of everyone coming to dinner.
2. Have enough felt squares for each person.
3. Write the name of each person on a felt square.
4. Think of safety tips you have learned on www.sparky.org (my favorite Web site)
and write it on the square. (Click here for holiday safety
tips).
Here are some of my all time favorites:
- Practice your home fire
escape plan.
- Test your smoke alarms.
- Know two ways out.
- Have an outside meeting
place.
- Remember to wear a bike
helmet.
- Always cross at the crosswalk.
- Always wear a safety belt.
Thanksgiving Day
1. Use the felt squares as place cards at the dinner table.
2. After dinner, have everyone think of why they are thankful. Put a basket of
art supplies (glitter, glue, markers, paint, etc.) on the table and have each
person make a drawing of why they are thankful.
Here are a few thankful ideas:
- I'm thankful for my health.
- I’m thankful for my
spots.
- I'm thankful for my family.
- I’m thankful for dog
cookies
3. After everyone is done, arrange the squares to create a quilt, banner, or table
runner (kind of like a table cloth only smaller).
4. The cool thing is, you can use it every Thanksgiving.
Remember to add a new square when new people come to dinner.
Happy quilting.
Here
are the answers to the FPW Challenge:
1. How often should you and your family practice
a home fire escape plan?
Twice a year.
2. Where should smoke alarms be in your home?
They should be on every level of your home, including inside
or near every sleeping area.
3. Fill in the blank: Set up a _____________ around
the stove.
No kids or pets within three feet (one metre) of the
stove when grown-ups are cooking! "Kid-free zone"
4. Where should grown-ups keep matches and lighters?
If you see matches or lighters, don't touch them!
Tell a grown-up where you found them and ask to have the matches and lighters
locked up high, away from all kids in your home.
5. When you make your
escape plan, how many ways out of each room should you have?
When you make your plan, try to identify two ways out of
each room (one way out might be the window, the other could be the door).
Bonus: History falsely credits an animal with starting
the Great Chicago Fire. What kind of animal? What was the year of the fire?
Mrs. O'Leary's cow (moo), and the year was 1871. |
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