Thanksgiving Day is a day set aside each year where people in the United States and Canada give thanks to God for all the blessings they received during the year by feasting and prayer.

History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day first started in New England. It was for thanking God for the abundant harvest of crops. This is usually somewhere in late fall when the crops have been harvested. People from many parts of the world have been holding some kind of harvest festivals for thousands of years. They just called it by different names, for example :
U.K. – Harvest Festival UK
China – mid-autumn festival
Korea – Chu Suk, or also known as the Harvest Moon Festival.
India – Indian Harvest Festival (find out what it’s called)

American Thanksgiving Day is probably a harvest festival at the beginning too. The first Thanksgiving Day in America was on December 4, 1619. At that time, it was a fully religious thing. A group of 38 English settlers arrived at Berkeley Plantation via the James river (near Charles City, Va) on December 4, 1619 and their charter required that the day of their arrival be observed yearly as a day of thanksgiving to God.

In New England, the first Thanksgiving Day was celebrated in Plymouth in 1621 by the Pilgrims together with 91 Indians. The Pilgrims first set foot at Plymouth Rock on December 11, 1620. The first winter in Massachusetts was really bad and 46 out of the original 102 Pilgrims died. It is believed that the Indians helped the Pilgrims through that difficult period and without them, the Pilgrims would not have survived.

In the following Spring of 1621, Samoset of the Wampanoag Tribe and Squanto of the Patuxtet tribe, taught the survivors how to plant corn or maize and how to catch alewives, a kind of fish to be used as a fertilizer for growing pumpkins, beans, peas and other crops. These two braves also taught the Pilgrims the art of hunting and angling. Things got better in 1621 when the corn and pumpkin harvest was bountiful. Governor William Bradford made arrangements to celebrate the bountiful harvest and to recognise the help given to the colonists by the indians with a feast. The feast was more of an English Harvest festival celebration and it lasted for three days. Governmor William Bradford sent four men out “fowling” after ducks and geese but it is not very sure if it included the turkey. The Pilgrims used to call any type of wild fowl, turkey. Unfortunately, this celebration was not repeated for many years. In June 20, 1676, the governing council or Charlestown and Massachusetts held a meeting and by a unanimous vote, they instructed Edward Rawson, the clerk, to proclaim June 29 as a Thanksgiving Day. The Indians were not included this time as the celebration was more about the Pilgrims’ recent victory over the natives.
Read the 1676 First Thanksgiving Procalamation

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This custom soon spread from Plymouth to other New England colonies. In October 1777, all the 13 colonies joined in a thanksgiving celebration. This thanksgiving celebration was to commemorate the victory over the British at the Battle of Saratoga during the Revolutionary war. Eight days of thanksgiving was observed. This celebration was not repeated.

In 1789, President George Washington issued a general proclaimation naming November 26 a day of National Thanksgiving. Some were opposed to it as many felt it was not right to celebrate when there were hardships among some pilgrims.
Read George Washington’s 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation
At the same time that year, the Protestant Episcopal Church announced that the first Thursday in November would be set aside yearly for giving thanks. However, it was only in 1830 when New York had an official state Thanksgiving Day that other Northern states soon followed. Viginia, in 1855, became the first southern state to adopt this custom.
How did Thanksgiving Day became a holiday?

During the 1800s, a famous editor of the Ladies’ Magazine and Godey’s Lady’s Book by the name of Sarah Josepha Hale (author of “Mary had a little lamb”) worked many years to promote the idea of a National Thanksgiving Day. She was credited for persuading President Abraham Lincoln to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday. Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November 1863 as “A day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father.” However, in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt changed it to one week earlier. This was to help businesses by lengthening the shopping period before Christmas. There was an uproar and it was changed back to its original date two years later. Then, Congress changed it again after 1941 to the fourth Thursday of November and it would be a legal federal holiday.
Read Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation, 1863
Today, Thanksgiving Day is usually a family reunion dinner celebration. Roast turkey is a favorite dish on this day. The Christians also attend church services and pray, thanking God for all the blessings for the year

References :
http://www.kiddyhouse.com/

It is one of the most attractive games .Childeren love it so much .

it makes them happy and give them any chances to make adventure.

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This animation moves at 10 frames per second.Animation is the rapid display of a sequence of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to create an illusion of movement. It is an optical illusion of motion due to the phenomenon of persistence of vision, and can be created and demonstrated in a number of ways. The most common method of presenting animation is as a motion picture or video program, although several other forms of presenting animation also exist.

Five images sequence from a vase found in Iran.
An Egyptian burial chamber mural, approximately 4000 years old, showing wrestlers in action. Even though this may appear similar to a series of animation drawings, there was no way of viewing the images in motion. It does, however, indicate the artist’s intention of depicting motion.Early examples of attempts to capture the phenomenon of motion drawing can be found in paleolithic cave paintings, where animals are depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion.

A 5,200 year old earthen bowl found in Iran in Shahr-i Sokhta has five images of a goat painted along the sides. This has been claimed to be an example of early animation.[1] However, since no equipment existed to show the images in motion, such a series of images cannot be called animation in a true sense of the word.[2]

The phenakistoscope, praxinoscope, as well as the common flip book were early popular animation devices invented during the 1800s, while a Chinese zoetrope-type device was invented already in 180 AD.[3][4][5][6] These devices produced movement from sequential drawings using technological means, but animation did not really develop much further until the advent of cinematography.

There is no single person who can be considered the “creator” of the art of film animation, as there were several people doing several projects which could be considered various types of animation all around the same time.

Georges Méliès was a creator of special-effect films; he was generally one of the first people to use animation with his technique. He discovered a technique by accident which was to stop the camera rolling to change something in the scene, and then continue rolling the film. This idea was later known as stop-motion animation. Méliès discovered this technique accidentally when his camera broke down while shooting a bus driving by. When he had fixed the camera, a hearse happened to be passing by just as Méliès restarted rolling the film, his end result was that he had managed to make a bus transform into a hearse. This was just one of the great contributors to animation in the early years.

The earliest surviving stop-motion advertising film was an English short by Arthur Melbourne-Cooper called Matches: An Appeal (1899). Developed for the Bryant and May Matchsticks company, it involved stop-motion animation of wired-together matches writing a patriotic call to action on a blackboard.

J. Stuart Blackton was possibly the first American filmmaker to use the techniques of stop-motion and hand-drawn animation. Introduced to filmmaking by Edison, he pioneered these concepts at the turn of the 20th century, with his first copyrighted work dated 1900. Several of his films, among them The Enchanted Drawing (1900) and Humorous Phases of Funny Faces (1906) were film versions of Blackton’s “lightning artist” routine, and utilized modified versions of Méliès’ early stop-motion techniques to make a series of blackboard drawings appear to move and reshape themselves. ‘Humorous Phases of Funny Faces’ is regularly cited as the first true animated film, and Blackton is considered the first true animator.
Fantasmagorie by Emile Cohl, 1908Another French artist, Émile Cohl, began drawing cartoon strips and created a film in 1908 called Fantasmagorie.[7] The film largely consisted of a stick figure moving about and encountering all manner of morphing objects, such as a wine bottle that transforms into a flower. There were also sections of live action where the animator’s hands would enter the scene. The film was created by drawing each frame on paper and then shooting each frame onto negative film, which gave the picture a blackboard look. This makes Fantasmagorie the first animated film created using what came to be known as traditional (hand-drawn) animation.

Following the successes of Blackton and Cohl, many other artists began experimenting with animation. One such artist was Winsor McCay, a successful newspaper cartoonist, who created detailed animations that required a team of artists and painstaking attention for detail. Each frame was drawn on paper; which invariably required backgrounds and characters to be redrawn and animated. Among McCay’s most noted films are Little Nemo (1911), Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) and The Sinking of the Lusitania

References :
http://en.wikipedia.org

Word searches provide kids with entertainment and education.search 3d sign image by onlinebewerbung.de from Fotolia.com Kids can use puzzles for both entertainment and educational value. For example, word-search puzzles can help a student improve spelling, vocabulary and problem-solving abilities. Many online websites provide puzzle-making software for Internet users. These software services require little to no technical knowledge. Users can make a word search for kids for free by simply entering search words and other basic information. The software programs then automatically construct the word-search puzzle.
The steps of serching a word : -
•Step 1
Open the ArmoredPenguin word-search puzzle maker. You can make a puzzle with this ArmoredPenguin puzzle software and post it online for kids and other users. You may also print the puzzle.

•Step 2
Type in the search words in the blank boxes. You may also enter a title, author name and puzzle description. This software also many other options for grid size, color and other features. Change the features as desired or just use the default settings.

•Step 3
Click the “Make Puzzle” button to generate the word search on the next page. You can use the buttons below the completed puzzle to create a printable word search or answer key in either HTML or PDF format. Use the “List this puzzle for the public” button only if you want to add it to the public database. Otherwise, give out the web address of the puzzle page privately if you only want to share it with kids or other people you know. Private puzzles stay on the ArmoredPenguin website for two months. Print a copy before the system deletes a puzzle.

References :
http://www.ehow.com

doctor is lovely for kids and they always fear to go to him .The story of going to a doctor as the next

You’re going to the doctor,” your mom tells you. But why go to the doctor when you’re not sick? Regular checkups are a smart idea for kids. These visits happen when you’re feeling fine and are sometimes called “well-child” visits because you’re well. Get it?

It’s a chance for the doctor to see that you’re growing and developing normally. It’s also a chance for your parents to talk with the doctor about any issues, such as safety or nutrition, so they can help you stay healthy. And it gives you a chance to ask any questions you might have about your health. You might wonder when you will grow taller, for instance, or if you weigh the right amount.

At the Office
A checkup may start when a nurse calls you and your parent from the waiting room. He or she might start by checking your weight and height, as well as your blood pressure and maybe your temperature.

•Blood pressure: This shows how hard your heart is pumping blood throughout your body. A cuff that gets tighter and tighter on your arm is used to measure this. As the air drains out of the cuff, the nurse will watch the numbers to get your reading. Blood pressure can be too high or too low, but yours is probably just right!
•Body temperature: Using a thermometer, the nurse can find out if your temperature is in the normal range (97 to 99.5 degrees Fahrenheit or 36.1 to 37.5 degrees Celsius). If it is higher, it means that you have a fever and your body is working to fight off an infection.
The nurse may check your hearing and vision (eyesight). If you have trouble with either one of these, you might need to see a hearing specialist or an eye doctor. The nurse then might ask you to go to the bathroom and give some urine (pee) in a cup. Urine can give clues about whether something is wrong with the way a person’s body is working. But usually, the nurse tests your pee and says everything is fine.

All of these numbers, measurements, and test results will go into your medical chart, so the doctor can look them over. Then it’s time to meet the

References :
http://kidshealth.org

Disney is the biggest in this field and childrn love it for its cartoon and films . Childern still love disney and I think they will do for a longer time.

This is one of its works which make a high profit and a high witneses

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Childern love tricks so see that

you could find yourself out of money. But in those cases you could easily impress your good (and a bit drunk ) friends by turning normal paper into money. This video details how you do it exactly as you need 5 or more pieces of paper that are cut so they have the same dimensions as the money you are going to turn it in. Also, an idea that I find funny is that, after you pay the tab, your friends might ask you to make more money. But this time use their money (say something like you are gonna multiply it) and do the reverse version, “destroying” their money into several pieces of paper…Just remember to give it back or you could have trouble with you good (and drunk) friends.

Now, as a skilled magician, you will probably need a magical wand. But waving it around isn’t enough to make it magical, so you will need to learn how to perform some tricks with it. This video shows such basic trick. Even if you don’t have a wand yourself, you can easily make one or buy one. Listen closely to the performer as he gives valuable tips on how to do the trick as other valuable information.

Also don’t forget to send me your own tricks and/or ideas, and I might post them on the site so that everyone can enjoy and perform them.

References :
http://www.mightytricks.com/

It is one of the most famous and lovely games all over the world it has the sense of adventure .This game is the most fabulous game ever it expends the mentaility of childern

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An exciting wonderland of fantasy and adventure play awaits.
The Crazy Kids Adventure Play centre is a massive, air conditioned, modern warehouse fitted out for high adventure and excitement in a controlled and monitored environment. This is children’s playtime entertainment at it’s very best and safest.

Our new enlarged play tower is one of the biggest in Essex. A series of multi-level activity areas, soft-ball canons, scramble nets, biff & bash toys, swings, squeeze rollers, slides, chutes, ball ponds, soft play areas, video games and rides combine to provide a top of the line adventure playground for children ages 1 to 12.

For private parties we have even more on offer with a range of thrilling themed events utilising the Disco Room, Laser Quest Arena, Climbing Wall, Simulator and private party rooms. This is a wonderful place for an unsurpassable birthday party treat. For more information about Crazy Kids themed parties ranging from the Crazy Kids Wild West Party to Laser Quest, please click here or on the “Parties” link above.

Soft drinks and beverages are always available from the Crazy Kids Cafe as is a well-balanced selection of meals ranging from Burgers, Jacket Potatoes and Fish Fingers through to Baguettes, Toasted Pannini and Salads. Dining and chill-out areas, for the parents, are on both the ground and first floor.

Wild and Crazy Kids was a game show on Nickelodeon, that aired from 1990–1992, in which large teams, usually consisting entirely of children, participated in head-to-head physical challenges. It was hosted by Omar Gooding, Donnie Jeffcoat, and Jessica Gaynes. Gaynes replaced Annette Chavez in the second season. The show also aired on YTV in Canada. In 2002, a remake hosted by Mati Moralejo was aired for seven episodes.

Three games were played per show, with one host emceeing each game. The teams were identified by the color of the shirts they wore, which varied from show to show. The games varied in style; many were takeoffs on playground games, sports with unusual rules added, or messy games involving pies or slime (the latter was referred to as “blap” on very late episodes). Occasionally, the show taped special episodes at a theme park (Raging Waters, Wild Rivers, and Six Flags Magic Mountain, all in California, were featured during the show’s run.) There were no prizes awarded at all for unexplained reasons.

References :
http://www.ckplay.co.uk/

A “Children’s Day”, as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world. Major global variants include an International Children’s Day on June 1 as adopted in the former Communist bloc, and a Universal Children’s Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation.[1] Many nations declare days for children on other dates.
The World Conference for the Well-being of Children in Geneva, Switzerland proclaimed June 1 to be International Children’s Day in 1925. It is not clear as to why June 1 was chosen as the International Children’s Day: one theory has it that the Chinese consul-general in San Francisco (USA) gathered a number of Chinese orphans to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in 1925, which happened to be on June 1 that year, and also coincided with the conference in Geneva.

The holiday is celebrated on 1 June each year. It is usually marked with speeches on children’s rights and wellbeing, children TV programs, parties, various actions involving or dedicated to children, families going out etc.[2][3][4]

It was adopted mostly by former and current Communist and Socialist countries.
Day care or child care is care of a child during the day by a person other than the child’s legal guardians, typically performed by someone outside the child’s immediate family. Day care is typically an ongoing service during specific periods, such as the parents’ time at work.

The service is known as child care in the United Kingdom and Australia and day care in North America (although childcare also has a broader meaning).

Day care is provided in nurseries or crèches or by a nanny caring for children in their own homes. It can also take on a more formal structure, with education, child development, discipline and even preschool education falling into the fold of services.

Some childminders care for children from several families at the same time, either in their own home or in a specialized child care facility. Some employers provide nursery provision for their employees at or near the place of employment.

Child care in the child’s own home is traditionally provided by a nanny or au pair, or by extended family members including grandparents, aunts and uncles.
magician will be on hand to entertain visitors to the Children with Additional Needs (CAN) family fun and information day.

All families with children who have additional needs or disabilities are invited to join in the fun at Highwood Primary School in Woodley on Saturday, July 3.

From 11am to 3.30pm there will be henna painting, farm animals, a model railway and competitions for families to enjoy.

Lucy Skye, Wokingham Borough Council’s information and participation officer for children with additional needs, said: “The main purpose of the CAN fun day is to bring services, professional, charity and parent run, under one roof, for one day, to show families with a child with additional needs what is available to them.”

Visitors will have the opportunity to learn about services which are available in the Wokingham area and there will also be information stands from local groups including local autism, carers support and learning disability and physical disability charities.

The fun day is organised by Wokingham Borough Council’s children’s services and local voluntary sector organisations including Crossroads, Peapods and Wokingham District Mencap

References :
http://vanuatulive.com