Today is our activity for Activity Days. I had to make it about Thanksgiving since it is only a week away. I decided to go with both cooking and a craft! I hope I don’t regret fitting too much into one activity, but since I am lucky and get to have activities at my house, I can do crazy stuff like that!
I decided that I wanted to help the girls learn the importance of gratitude. So, we are making thanksgiving cards. One of the cards says, “Grateful” on the front. Another says, “Thankful for….” and then you open it and it says “YOU!” I am going to have the girls write a thank you card to someone that is not a family member and give it to them before Thanksgiving. They will need to write in the card what they are most thankful for about that person. I think that card writing has become a dying art. I love to write notes. It is part of who I am. It is easy for me to express myself through writing, but not everyone has that ability naturally. So, hopefully this will help the girls develop their talent for writing thank-yous.
Before we start on the cards, we are going to make some delicious pumpkin chocolate chip bread. The recipe comes right out of the Essential Mormon Cookbook, and is perfect because they will each get two mini-loaves to take home with them. One will be for them to eat, and one will be for them to give away with one of the cards they make. Since the bread takes 45 minutes to cook, we’ll put the cards together while we bake the bread! It can make one loaf or 4 mini loaves. Here’s the recipe:
1/2 Cup Butter
1 Cup Sugar
2 Eggs
3/4 cup canned pumpkin
1 3/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 teaspoon ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
3/4 cup chocolate chips
3/4 cup chopped pecans (optional)
Cream butter, sugar, and eggs. Add pumpkin and mix; set aside. In another bowl sift dry ingredients. Gradually add dry ingredients to creamy mixture. Beat until blended. Add chocolate chips and pecans, if desired. Grease one loaf pan or 4 mini loaf pans. Pour batter into pans. For one loaf, bake at 350 for 1 hour. For mini loaves, bake at 350 for 35 to 40 minutes.
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