food, crochet, merriment
These little Thanksgiving Feast Favors went together very quickly.
All I did was pack Corn Pops cereal into Ziploc Snack bags.
Next wrap them in light and dark green tissue paper.
Twist the paper at the top and bottom and tie with brown yarn or raffia.
And there you have it!!
Oh, my GOODNESS! Have we been having fun over here!!
Kind of amazing what you can do with a couple of cookies and some carefully placed candy pieces.
Two cookies, 4 candy corns, a slice of gummy fruit and a couple of googly eyes–all held together with melted white chocolate. That’s all it took.
I worked at it all afternoon until I had a sweet, tasty army of tiny little turkeys. In that same amount of time– my awesome son made exactly…
three.
Any guesses which are his?
Ok, guys–are these the cutest little turkey drumsticks that you’ve ever, EVER seen?! You KNOW they are!
And no lie, they taste so good, you’ll be lucky if somebody doesn’t eat them all in one sitting. Ahem.
First, you’ll need three simple things:
1 bag of Braided Pretzel Sticks
1 bag Kraft Caramels
Dipping chocolate– we used 2 large Symphony bars
Here’s how you make them. 
Snap one end off the pretzels or they will be too long and look funny. You can see that we didn’t break too much off. Just enough to make them the right size.
Next you’ll want to warm up the caramels. You can do this a few different ways. You can soften them up with a few seconds in the microwave–if you have one. We don’t, so we put them in a Ziploc bag and set them in a bowl of hot water. It worked just fine.
We’re not trying to melt the caramels–just make them soft enough to mold, kind of like clay.
Next, wrap the caramel around the broken end of the pretzel. Mold and shape it like a turkey leg–a blob at one end, tapering down towards the middle of the pretzel.
You’ll have a sweet little plate of naked drumsticks when you’re finished. While they sit there in all their skinned, raw, vulnerable glory you’ll need to melt the chocolate. We just put it in a small pan and warmed it on the stove on low.
Once it’s completely melted, dip the little things in the chocolate and let them rest on wax paper. You might want to be smarter than I was and put the wax paper on a pan first. That way you can pop them in the fridge to help them set faster.
I don’t know about you, but I simple LOVE giving someone a surprise that makes them say, “OH, MY GOSH!! How adorable!”
Then they laugh–
which is, of course my all time favorite reaction.
Luckily, I made a million of these.
Guess I’m just a needy little soul.
Ha.
PS- This recipe was first spotted on Taste of Home Recipes. I only did one minor tweak–using one caramel instead of two and breaking the pretzels.
A lot went on “business as usual” this Thanksgiving…
except for me. I was over on the couch in my nightgown…asleep.
In the dark, early morning hours of the day, I passed out and fell on the tile floor. I believe I chipped the bone in my elbow and broke a few ribs in the fall. I’ll never know for sure because….well…
hospitals and I…not so much.
Angels woke Rhen up to come find and get me up and into a chair. That was incredibly painful. Then–somehow, I don’t remember, they took me to April’s for the feast. I think Lyndi fed me some mashed potatoes and gravy. It’s kinda fuzzy. 
Rhen went out of town with April’s family after the Thanksgiving meal, so Lyndi’s family took me home with them and took care of me for a whole week.
Sweet Lyndi fed me and walked me around and helped me the whole time, day and night. I’ll never be able to thank them enough.
Tons to be thankful for–to be sure. It could have been so much worse and gratefully I was well looked after.
I guess I missed the dinner and that’s sure a first.
What a funny day.
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Oh, it’s been WAY too long since we made any of our sweet Thanksgiving Place cards. If you’ve been around here for awhile, you may remember our other place cards. We’ve had Pilgrims and Native Americans over the years that you could color yourself–we’ll update that soon, fear not.Â
So, what else could we do this year but turn all our little turkeys into actual–sort of– TURKEYS!! Aren’t they simply adorable?Â
The extra good news is that these sweet turkeys are already full color and ready to be cut out. Just add your family pictures and you’ll be home free!! Â
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