Little Caesars Arena Gingerbread Arena

Two years ago we made a Palace gingerbread arena. (https://workingmomwonders.blogspot.com/2015/11/gingerbread-arena-palace.html). The link provides the recipe I used for the gingerbread dough and frosting. 

This year we decided to update the arena and turn it into the Little Caesars Arena. 

Pumpkin Bread

I found this recipe online yesterday and decided to give it a try. It is absolutely delicious. (https://www.onceuponachef.com/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-bread.html) 

Ingredients:

2 cups flour

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1/2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cloves

1 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

1 1/2 sticks of butter, softened

2 cups sugar

2 eggs

1 15 oz can of pumpkin

Place the flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg in a bowl. Whisk the dry ingredients together. 

In a separate bowl, whip the butter and sugar together until fluffy. Add the eggs, one at a time. Then add in the pumpkin. 

Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just mixed. 

Grease and flour two loaf pans. Add the batter. Cook for about 55 minutes at 325 degrees. 

The bread is incredibly moist.

I'm Thankful For...Craft

We made "I'm Thankful For..." Popsicle stick fans tonight. 

Start by taping five sets of two Popsicle sticks. 

Flip each set over and tape the five sets together. 

It will now fold up like a fan. 

Write I'm Thankful For on the top stick. Then we added eight things we are thankful for. The kids colored the sticks with markers, tape, and stickers. 

You can fold them up and tie them with a ribbon or pipe cleaner if you want to make them into an ornament or hang them somewhere. 

Turkey Craft

For this craft, we used cardstock, a toilet paper roll, tissue paper, and google eyes. Rachel painted the white cardstock brown, picked colors for her feathers, and glued on tissue paper. She then decorated the turkey body with google eyes, cardstock, and markers. 

It is now the tree topper for our Thanksgiving tree.