Moorestown Friends School Students to Participate in All-School Thanksgiving Celebration

Moorestown Friends School students of all ages will join faculty and staff in an all-school celebration of Thanksgiving on Wednesday.

More than 40 mixed-age groups of students from pre-K through 12th grade, faculty, and staff will work together to create gifts during the celebration from 9:45 a.m.-11:45 a.m.

Gifts include 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 will be 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.

Students will also learn how many complete dinners they collected as part of the school’s annual Thanksgiving Food Drive.

Last year, Moorestown Friends School families and students contributed, packed and delivered over 160 holiday meals, including all of the ingredients for a feast, along with money collected for turkey purchases, to New Visions Community Center in Camden. New Visions then delivered them to local families in need.

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.