Thanksgiving is the perfect time to get creative and celebrate gratitude with your little ones. These festive, easy-to-make Thanksgiving crafts are not only fun but also a great way to decorate your home and keep kids entertained while waiting for the big meal. Let’s dive into some ideas that are sure to make this Thanksgiving memorable for your family!

1. Paper Plate Turkeys

What You’ll Need: Paper plates, colored paper, googly eyes, glue, and markers.

How-To: Help kids cut out feathers from colored paper, then glue them onto the back of a paper plate. Draw or glue on eyes, and add an orange triangle beak and red wattle. Let kids use their imaginations with colors for a truly unique turkey!

2. Thankful Leaves Garland

What You’ll Need: Colored construction paper, scissors, a hole punch, string, and markers.

How-To: Cut out leaf shapes, and have each family member write something they’re grateful for on a leaf. Punch holes and string the leaves together for a festive garland that reflects the spirit of Thanksgiving.

3. Pinecone Turkeys

What You’ll Need: Pinecones, craft feathers, googly eyes, felt, and glue.

How-To: Glue feathers onto the pinecone for the turkey’s tail. Add googly eyes and a felt beak to create an adorable tabletop turkey decoration.

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4. Gratitude Pumpkin

What You’ll Need: A mini pumpkin, markers, and stickers.

How-To: Each day leading up to Thanksgiving, write something each family member is thankful for on the pumpkin. This is a lovely way to visually display your family’s gratitude during the season.

5. Handprint Turkey Placemats

What You’ll Need: Large sheets of paper, washable paint, brushes, and markers.

How-To: Paint your kids’ hands with different colors and stamp their hands on the paper to create turkey shapes. Add faces, feet, and other fun details to make personalized placemats for the Thanksgiving table.

6. Paper Bag Turkey Puppets

What You’ll Need: Paper lunch bags, construction paper, googly eyes, markers, and glue.

How-To: Decorate the bottom of the bag with a turkey face and add paper feathers to the back. Kids can use them as puppets and put on a Thanksgiving-themed puppet show!

7. Corn Husk Wreath

What You’ll Need: Dried corn husks, a foam wreath form, glue, and ribbon.

How-To: Glue dried corn husks around the foam form in a circular pattern to create a rustic Thanksgiving wreath. Tie a bow with a ribbon at the top, and it’s ready to hang on the door!

8. Coffee Filter Turkeys

What You’ll Need: Coffee filters, markers, water, glue, paper coffee cups, and googly eyes.

How-To: Color the coffee filter with markers, then spray with water to make the colors blend like feathers. Once dry, glue on a turkey face using construction paper for a cute, colorful turkey.

9. Gratitude Jar

What You’ll Need: A jar, colored paper, scissors, and markers.

How-To: Cut paper into small slips, and have family members write things they’re grateful for each day. Place them in the jar, and on Thanksgiving Day, take turns reading them out loud.

10. Thanksgiving Thankful Tree

What You’ll Need: A small branch, construction paper, scissors, markers, and a vase.

How-To: Place the branch in the vase to create a “tree,” then cut out leaf shapes from paper. Write things you’re thankful for on the leaves and hang them from the branches as a festive reminder of gratitude.

11. Pumpkin Seed Mosaic

What You’ll Need: Pumpkin seeds, paint, markers, and glue.

How-To: After cleaning and drying pumpkin seeds, paint them in fall colors. Once dry, kids can arrange them on paper to create a mosaic in the shape of a turkey, pumpkin, or leaf.

12. Leaf Painting with Nature Stamps

What You’ll Need: Real leaves, paint, and paper.

How-To: Dip leaves in paint and press them onto paper to create beautiful fall leaf stamps. Encourage kids to use a variety of colors for a lively design.

13. Toilet Paper Roll Pilgrims and Turkeys

What You’ll Need: Toilet paper rolls, construction paper, markers, and glue.

How-To: Wrap the rolls in construction paper, then decorate them as pilgrims, Native Americans, or turkeys for a fun Thanksgiving story set.

14. Pumpkin Spice Playdough

What You’ll Need: Flour, salt, water, cream of tartar, oil, pumpkin pie spice, and food coloring.

How-To: Make a homemade batch of pumpkin spice-scented playdough by mixing ingredients in a pot over low heat. This sensory activity is perfect for little hands and brings a festive smell to the home.

15. Turkey Napkin Rings

What You’ll Need: Toilet paper rolls, colored construction paper, scissors, glue, and markers.

How-To: Cut the toilet paper roll into small sections (about an inch wide) to serve as napkin ring bases. Cut out feather shapes from construction paper and glue them to the back of each ring. Draw or glue a turkey face on the front using construction paper pieces. Slide a folded napkin through each ring, and place on the Thanksgiving table for a festive touch!

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These Thanksgiving crafts are perfect for creating festive memories and decorations that will brighten up your holiday celebration. Letting kids participate in Thanksgiving preparations with hands-on crafts is a wonderful way to bring your family together and make Thanksgiving even more special.

Happy Thanksgiving crafting!

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