After our informative visit to the homeless shelter on Fourth Street South last month, our kindergarten classes wanted to find a way to help make Thanksgiving enjoyable for the guests who would be eating at the shelter that day. The Salvation Army usually serves over 100 meals on the 24 tables in their dining room.
First we decided that each of our three classes would make eight paper turkeys with real feathers to serve as center pieces for the 24 tables. This will help add a festive atmosphere to the dining hall.
Then, we remembered those 58 cans of pumpkin that we were challenged to use for the shelter. Six cans has been baked into pumpkin crisp and delivered when our kindergartens toured the shelter, which left 52 cans. The children voted unanimously that we should make pumpkin pies to be delivered along with our turkey decorations in time to be served for the Thanksgiving meal. We calculated that we would need to make one pie for each of the 24 tables to ensure that each guest would have a piece. A special thanks to all our families who provided the necessary ingredients and assistance to help our students make so many pies.
Today began our assembly of pies. Recipes were doubled and tripled to be sure each classes participation would yield the amounts needed. We have frozen the pies for delivery and the Salvation Army Shelter kitchen will be baking them in their extra large ovens next week. We hope you and yours have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.
