Three Thanksgiving Crafts For Kids
Here are some fun and meaningful Thanksgiving crafts for kids. Try these decorative "turkeys" that your kids will love creating. You need:
1. Construction paper - brown (two shades), red, orange, yellow, white
2. Coloring paper - white and different colors
3. Pencil, color markers
4. Scissors
5. Glue
6. Googly eyes, pipe cleaners (optional)
Thanksgiving crafts for kids Project #1: Hand and Foot Turkey - Trace your child's feet on brown construction paper. These two feet will be the turkey's body.
- Now, using red, orange and yellow construction paper, trace out your child's hands. These six hands will be the turkey's feathers.
- For step three of Thanksgiving crafts for kids project #1, you need to cut and glue the two feet together; the heels should form the head.
- Cut an orange paper beak and a red, round paper wattle and glue them onto the turkey head.
- Glue on the googly eyes or use paper eyes.
- Attach two paper legs, or pipe cleaner legs, to the body with glue or tape.
- Cut, and glue the six hand feathers onto turkey back.
- Write your child's name and age on the back of the turkey.
That's the end of Thanksgiving crafts for kids project #1, now let's see about project #2….
Thanksgiving crafts for kids Project #2: Thankful Turkey
- Cut a circle or oval, (about 8" across), from brown construction paper. This will form the turkey's body.
- Use a different shade of brown paper, and cut a smaller circle and a rectangle to make the turkey's head and neck. Remember that for this part of Thanksgiving crafts for kids Project #2, an adult should be supervising any children using scissors….
- Cut two orange paper legs.
- Glue the turkey's head and neck onto the body.
- Glue a small orange triangle for the beak, and a tiny red blob for the wattle.
- Mark black eyes or stick googly eyes on turkey's head.
- Attach legs to turkey body.
- Now, make the feathers. For this cut five ovals from different color paper. Then, cut five slightly smaller ovals from white or yellow paper.
- Glue the smaller ovals onto the larger ones. On each oval, write the words, "I am thankful for", and then below, have your child write or draw the things he/she is thankful for.
- Glue the feathers onto the back of the turkey.
- Finish off by writing your child's name and age on the turkey.
Thanksgiving crafts for kids Project #3: Thankful Wreath of Leaves You need:
1. Plain white paper plate
2. Construction paper - orange, red, yellow, various shades of brown
3. Crayons or markers
4. Scissors
5. Glue or a glue stick
- From center of paper plate, cut out a half-circle.
- Draw (or use a leaf stencil), and cut leaves of different shades from the construction paper. Make them look realistic.
- Glue the leaves along the rim of the paper plate to make a wreath.
- In the lower part of the wreath, write words, "I am thankful for". Now, below it, have your child write or draw the things he/she is thankful for.
- Write their names or let them sign.
Thanksgiving crafts for kids final tip:
Instead of leaves, you can also use paper tracings of your child's hands, paper baking cups or colorful paper scrap. Have fun and enjoy doing these projects with your kids! Related Articles:
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