Today's column focuses on Thanksgiving. For my family, the holidays begin with clip art we can use for all sorts of projects ranging from customized place mats, name tags for parties, gift tags, holiday letters, greeting cards and even signs to post on the wall. Click on Holidays and then Thanksgiving for eight pages of images that you can use for non-commercial embellishments to your personal projects. You might want to explain to your children that these give users permission to use their images as a subtle way to begin educating them about when it is and isn't OK to use other people's work in their own projects. There are a number of sites that allow you to create online greeting cards.
Food is, of course, also high on our agenda.
Readers Digest has put together a useful page of recipes, projects and crafts, table setting advice, traditions, stories and more. It's a pretty good starting place for families. When celebrating Thanksgiving, it's important to think of the history and meaning of the holiday. There are numerous thanksgiving stories on the Net. After you or your kids read the story, take the Thanksgiving quiz to see whether you know such basics as the year the Pilgrims had their first Thanksgiving feast or the president who established Thanksgiving as a national holiday.