Guarantee a stress-free holiday by keeping little hands occupied busy with these easy Thanksgiving crafts for kids. Kids can DIY their own place mats – which is a great way to teach them about setting the table. While they get creative, these holiday crafts encourage them to be thankful for all the blessings in their life. As an added bonus – you can put these festive projects on display or even give them out as favors and hostess gifts.
1. Turkey Dinner
Make a cute “Turkey Dinner” using a paper plate and brown paper to make the turkey leg.
2. Gobble Gobble
This pot holder makes a a great gift for parents for Thanksgiving.
3. Thanksgiving Placemat
instructions Thanksgiving Placemat
4. Turkey
Cut construction paper in half, the long way, and shape in to the feather. Send that home with the children to decorate however they would like, encourage to be as creative, or simple as they would like. Use, cereal, feathers, leaves, buttons, crayons, markers, stickers, etc. Make the Turkey body out of tag board and reuse it every year with the new round of feathers the children bring in. Makes a great hall display.
5. Pilgrim & Indian Handprints
instructions Pilgrim & Indian Handprints
6. Foot-Print Pilgrim Art
7. Pilgrim footprint
8. Indian Handprint Craft
9. Indian Craft
10. Foot-Print American Indian Art
11. Handprint Turkeys
Make cute Thanksgiving art! Do hands in different colors across the back of the turkey
12. Turkey Craft
13. Thanksgiving Canvas Handprint Art
14. Turkey footprint craft
15. Thanksgiving Indian boy and Indian girl craft
16. Footprint Cornucopia
17. Pumpkin Pie
18. Turkey Hand Print Pot Holder
19. Thankful For