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Paying homage to the first Thanksgiving

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Tinkering Tuesdays at the Land O’ Lakes Branch Library, 2818 Collier Parkway, celebrated the season by doing crafts to commemorate the first Thanksgiving. Tinkering Tuesdays focuses on a different theme each month. During the program, which is one Tuesday evening a month, kids have a chance to explore the world around them by doing crafts and various activities. Besides making the feathered headbands, the Thanksgiving program featured a teepee and activities, such as making beaded necklaces, corn and pumpkin decorations, ice cream cone teepees, and kits to make a wooden Mayflower boat to sail in a tub of water.

Jeannine Jensen, of Land O’ Lakes, helps her 3-year-old son Parker, on her lap, as he constructs a pumpkin using pipe cleaners and beads. Parker’s 6-year-old brother, Easton, is making his own pumpkin design. (Christine Holtzman)
Four-year-old Kinsey Gallaher, of Land O’ Lakes, proudly shows off the Native American feathered headband that she crafted along with her mother, Amy.
After finishing a headband and a beaded necklace, 7-year-old Jewel Selego, of Land O’ Lakes, smiles at his mother, Diana, as he checks out the inside of the teepee that was hand sewn by library assistants Kerry Peters and Jayde Archbold. They used fabric that was donated to the library. In fact, Peters said most of the materials used during the evening were donated to the library by members of the community.

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