Thanksgiving Owl Bulletin Board

Thanksgiving is absolutely my favorite holiday. I love the Americana, the tradition, the Christian heritage, the anticipation of Christmas starting the minute the dishes are washed and put away. It is awesome. This Thanksgiving bulletin board also ended up begin one of my favorite boards to prepare. It actually was the first one that I made and served as the inspiration for the whole "interchangeable bulletin board" idea in the first place. 

Thanksgiving OWL Bulletin Board

 

I got the inspiration for the pilgrim hats from a clipart that I found on the internet, but drew and redesigned myself in Photoshop. (It took hours!! A few days later I discovered that I can buy all kinds of super cool clipart from Etsy. Next time I will just buy the clipart. It took way too much time and frustration to do it all myself.)

If I could do it all over again, I would change the phrase to "Seniors Giving Thanks." I thought of it too late. 

There were pumpkins on the board with the Thanksgiving owls, but for some reason they didn't make it into the picture. I got the black-and-white clipart from a free classroom resources coloring page. I added the color myself in Photoshop.  The pumpkins were kind of a disaster. I definitely could have done better. I wasn't thinking about how the stem and curly-que would do in the laminator when I chose them. The smaller ones were all bent up and folded over, so I had to just cut them off. 

 

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