Thanksgiving Crafts For Every Member of The Family
I've always known that my sister-in-law was a fabulous and crafty person but when I asked her for some suggestions on Thanksgiving crafts families can do together I had no idea she had this many helpful suggestions. So, Thank you to my wonderful sista Leesh!
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1. Make Holiday Place Mats
I found a Blog sight called The Domestic Notebook where the writer gives a wonder and easy suggestions for both Thanksgiving and Holiday handmade place mats that you can get laminated and use every year.
http://thedomesticnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/11/holiday-handprint-placemats.html
2. Do a "thankful/service jar" filled with slips of paper with ways to serve others or ways to show gratitude. Each day you pull one out and do it as a family, you could do it all month long or just the week before Thanksgiving.
3. Make Hand Turkeys
Trace your child’s feet (while she’s wearing shoes)onto brown or black construction paper and cut them out. Trace your child’s hands on various other colors of construction paper. The “feet” will become the turkey’s body and the handprints his tail feathers. Cut out all the pieces you just traced. Use the image above as a guide on how to assemble your turkey. Cut eyes, a beak and a waddle out of remnants of construction paper and glue them on your turkey.
4. Fall Glitter Leafs-cut out paper into leaf shapes, paint with watered down glue and put small squares of fall colored tissue paper on top then paint watered down glue over that and sprinkle a little glitter. They look really pretty and a bunch of them could be a fall center piece.
5. The Thankful Tree (times 2)
#1. Make a Thankful tree by using brown paper to make a tree and branches. Make it small or wall sized depending on space. Just make a basic tree outline taping pieces of paper together if you need to. Then cut out paper leafs. Kids can write/draw something they are thankful for on a leaf. They could put there name on a leaf when they do a service for another person. You can also make the Fall Glitter Leafs to add for some glitter and color. You could do this all month or week of Thanksgiving. Also an owl or acorn could adorn the tree to for fun.
#2. Make the leafs like in the first example but instead of placing the tree on the wall, collect some branches, but them in a vase and attach the cutout leafs with what their thankful for on the branches and use that as the centerpiece for your Thanksgiving dinner.
5. The Thankful Turkey
A lot like the previous craft but using a turkey and it's feathers. Cut out a turkey from brown construction paper, add eyes, a beak, and it's dangle thingy (yes, that's its technical name :)) and then cut out turkey feathers from different colored construction paper. Have each family member write down what they are thankful for and add all the feathers onto the turkey to make it's tail. Place the finished turkey on a wall near the dinner table as a reminder of what you're all thankful for this thanksgiving.
6. Make Thank You cards by hand. Just simple with construction paper and markers and either hand deliver them on Thanksgiving day or send them to those who you truly are thankful for.
7. Thankful Collages. Give the kids some safety scissors and a stack of magazines and let them make a collage of the things the are grateful for.
8. Sneaky Treats or an act of service. Let the kids help you make some treats to sneakily drop off at friends houses, or do a service for others as a family. Get the kids involved by choosing what service and who to help as well as participating in the service act.
9. And lastly, here is a link to print out free Thanksgiving color pages. This is a good project if you need the kids to be occupied for just a little bit longer while you but the finishing touches on the dinner.
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