Coolest Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
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Here are more great Thanksgiving crafts for kids you can incorporate into your Thanksgiving party. The crafts are most often for the children, but grown ups usually enjoy them just as much.
Pinecone Turkeys: Collect pinecones; add colorful feathers, wiggly eyes, and cut and bent pipe cleaners for the beak, wattle and feet. You can spray paint the pinecone with gold spray and also turn them into place card holders.
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Oreo Turkeys: Give each child two Oreo cookies. Open one Oreo. Use the half that has the filling as the base for the turkey to stand on (the other piece can be eaten.) Place the second Oreo on the filling standing upright. This'll be the turkey body. Carefully place five candy corns into the filling on the upright Oreo. Now you've got the feathers. To finish off this quick and tasty turkey, place a Raisinette in front of the turkey body for the head. You can use these as decorations or let the kids gobble them right up.
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Hand Turkey: Have the children paint their palms brown, as well as their thumb. Then let them paint each of their fingers a different bright color such red or blue. Have them press their hand onto a piece of white paper. Let them add the eyes, wattle, gobble, etc. You can even turn this into a card by writing: "This isn't just a Turkey as anyone can see, I made it with my hand which is part of me. It comes with lots of love especially to say, I hope that you have a very happy Thanksgiving day!!”
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Turkey Mural: Take a large sheet of poster board, draw a large turkey on it and cut it out. Color the beak, wattles and feet. Use all your fall colors of tempera paint and have each child print their handprint all over the turkey (this becomes the feathers). The more they layer their handprints the prettier the turkey. For easy clean up add a few drops of liquid soap into the paint.
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Snack Holder Pilgrim Hats: These make great and easy table decorations. For each pilgrim hat, use one black stadium cup, one 6" circle of black cardboard, and a gold or yellow "buckle" made from cardstock paper. Glue the circle to the base of the cup and the buckle around the cup. Fill the pilgrim hat with a dry snack (popcorn, pretzels, wrapped candies, etc.).
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Tissue Paper Turkeys: Cut a simple outline of a turkey from brown construction paper. A profile of a turkey works best. Draw an eye on the turkey and the wattle. Then, with small scraps of colored tissue paper, have the kids make the feathers for the turkey by taking a square of tissue paper, inserting an eraser from a pencil into the middle of the square, twisting the paper around the eraser and dipping in glue. Then have them glue the tissue paper onto the turkey cutout.
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Tissue Corn: Cut corn shapes out of tag board and also prepare small squares of fall colored tissue paper. Have the children twist the tissue paper around a pencil eraser and glue it onto the corn shape.
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Potato Turkeys: Take an uncooked potato and have the children insert feathers on one side being careful to choose the feathers with the firmest "stem". Glue on wiggle eyes and use red felt for a gobble. Fold a yellow or orange diamond shape cutout to make the gobble and insert four toothpicks in the bottom half to make the turkey stand. A variation of the Potato Turkey is the Apple Turkey. Use the apple for the turkey body, precut turkey head, and use frilly cocktail toothpicks for feathers.
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Paper Bag Turkeys: Give each child a brown paper grocery bag (any size) and several sheets of newspaper. Have the children crumple the sheets of newspaper and stuff them into their bags until the bags are half full. Twist the bags closed and tie them around the middle with pieces of yarn. To make tails for their paper bag turkeys, have the children make several cuts from the top edges of their bags down to the yarn ties. Let the children paint their turkey tails. Then give each child a precut turkey head shape to decorate. Attach the head shapes to the front of the bags to complete the turkeys. Instead of filling with newspapers, you can fill it with candy and give this turkey out as a favor.
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Doodle Table Covers: Cover a table or two with orange paper. Add baskets of markers to the tables, and allow family and friends to doodle on the decorative table covers. This activity is always a hit, and you can cut out and save the best doodles for the family scrapbook! You can also print out our free and original Thanksgiving coloring pages for them to color in as well.
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Colored Corn Pictures: Prepare different colored corn by mixing un-popped popcorn with rubbing alcohol and food coloring (shake inside a Ziploc bag and let dry in an open container). Have the kids glue the colored corn onto different Thanksgiving designs.
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Mayflower Place Cards: Mold Terra cotta colored clay (or even Playdough) into boats similar in shape to the Mayflower. Cut a good-sized sail out of the edge of a white paper plate. Write the names of each child on the sails. Poke two holes in the center of the sail (vertically), and use the toothpick as the mast. Fill with M&M's or mini candy bars in fall colors. You can also make the body of the Mayflower from play dough or folded paper (origami).
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The ‘Thank You’ Wreath: For this you’ll need round wooden wreath or foam base (which can be purchased at a craft store). Give each of your guests autumn colored construction paper (oranges, browns, greens, yellows, reds, etc.) and let them cut out different sized and colored leaves. On each leaf have them write things that they are thankful for. Once they are done creating their leaves, provide them with glue so that they can glue onto wreath base. Give them ribbons, bows, flowers, and all kinds of other things to decorate their ‘Thank You’ wreaths.
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The ‘Thank You’ Tree: If you don’t want to deal with wreaths, you can cut out a large tree trunk from brown construction paper and tape this to the wall. Your guests can then cut out leaves, or better yet, trace their hands on construction paper and write things they are thankful for on them. Then tape these leaves and/or hands to the tree branches. In no time you will have a nice “Thank You’ tree.
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Pumpkin faces: Have pre-cut pumpkin shapes from orange construction paper. Give out different colored construction paper, and let your guests cut out different eyes, noses and mouth for their pumpkin and glue them onto their pumpkin shape. You can also purchase lots of mini pumpkins and let your guests decorate with brushes and paint.
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Land Ho!: Collect and save lots of toilet or towel paper rolls. With hot glue, glue two together, and then take two small round pieces of clear or colored cellophane paper (that is bigger than the opening of each toilet or towel paper roll). Wrap a rubber band around each, to keep them secure to the roll. Give the kids all kinds of markers, paints, glue, glitter, stickers, etc. to decorate them and while they are looking in their telescopes, tell them the story of the first Thanksgiving. Have them imagine that they are Pilgrims finding land, and yell “Land Ho”!
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Indian Hopi Rattles: For this craft you will need paper plates, craft sticks, masking tape, stapler, glue, rice and/or beans, decorating materials such as markers, glitter, feathers, raffia, ribbons, construction and crepe paper, etc. To make these, start off with decorating the back parts of two paper plates. With masking tape, tape strongly the craft sticks to the right side of one plate (this is the handle). Flip the plate and put a pretty large handful of rice and or/ beans onto the inside of the plate. Take the second plate and fit it over the first – so that both of their insides are facing each other. Then tape around the whole outer edge so that no rice and/or beans leak out. Try putting extra tape around where the handle sticks out so that it’s secure. Then staple the taped edges of the plates all around the edge. You can add decorations to the stick as well. This can be an instrument, which can encourage rhythmic beats for dancing.
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Native American Ceremonial masks: Cut out two holes for the eyes, one for the nose and one of the mouth for each person. They can then decorate as they wish with feathers, sequins, as a sun with triangles all around, as a moon, etc. Tape on a craft stick to one side so that they can hold it up to their faces.
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