Moorestown Friends School to Celebrate Thanksgiving by Giving

Moorestown Friends School students from pre-kindergarten through Grade 12 will join faculty and staff for a special all-school tradition in celebration of Thanksgiving on Wednesday, 9:45 a.m.-11 a.m.

More than 40 mixed-age groups of students, faculty, and staff will work together to create gifts such as wreaths, tissue paper flowers, paper bag turkeys, and more. Groups also create murals that are collectively displayed as part of the concluding festivities.

All crafts and murals are delivered to South Jersey nursing homes and continuing care facilities by faculty, staff, and parent volunteers. The day concludes with a song led by the music teachers, an interfaith prayer, a Thanksgiving story, and Meeting for Worship.

The school will also announce how many complete dinners have been collected during its annual Thanksgiving Food Drive.

Last year, Moorestown Friends School families and students contributed, packed and delivered over 160 holiday meals to New Visions Community Center in Camden for delivery to local families in need.

This includes all of the ingredients for a feast, along with money collected for turkey purchases.

Each reusable shopping bag, collected and packed by the students, includes cans of vegetables, cans of gravy, mashed or sweet potatoes, stuffing mix, muffin or biscuit mix, pumpkin pie mix or fruit pie filling, evaporated milk, and pie crust mix.

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