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15 Fun Thanksgiving Crafts to Make with Your Kids!



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.


A festive, Thanksgiving-themed image showing adorable DIY pinecone turkeys made by children. Each turkey is crafted from a pinecone body, decorated with bright, colorful feathers, googly eyes, and a felt beak and wattle. The pinecone turkeys are displayed on a cozy table with autumn decorations, including mini pumpkins, fall leaves, and warm lighting, creating a charming, family-friendly setting perfect for a Thanksgiving craft blog.

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.


 
 

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.


A cheerful Thanksgiving-themed image showing a fun craft where kids’ hands are painted in different colors and stamped onto paper to create turkey shapes. Each handprint turkey has added details like googly eyes, drawn faces, colorful feathers, and little feet. The handprint turkeys are arranged on paper to make personalized placemats, perfect for a Thanksgiving table. The scene is family-friendly and cozy, with autumn decor such as mini pumpkins, leaves, and a warm table setting, capturing a playful, homemade holiday craft vibe.

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.


A fun and colorful Thanksgiving-themed image showing homemade paper bag turkey puppets crafted by kids. Each puppet is made from a brown paper bag decorated with vibrant feathers, googly eyes, a beak, and a wattle, giving them a playful, cheerful look. The scene includes children using the puppets in a cozy, family-friendly setting decorated with autumn-themed items like pumpkins and fall leaves, perfect for a Thanksgiving craft blog.

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!


A simple DIY Thanksgiving craft image of a corn husk wreath in progress. The wreath is made by gluing dried corn husks around a foam wreath form in a circular pattern. A ribbon bow is tied at the top, completing the rustic, handmade look. The scene is set on a crafting table with corn husks, glue, scissors, and ribbon, showing the wreath as a family-friendly Thanksgiving project.

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!


A DIY Thanksgiving craft image showing coffee filter turkeys made by kids. Each turkey is created from a coffee filter colored with markers and sprayed with water, giving it a blended, watercolor look like colorful feathers. After drying, the turkeys are completed with construction paper details, including googly eyes, an orange beak, and a red wattle. The crafting setup is on a simple table with coffee filters, markers, a water spray bottle, and small cut-out construction paper pieces, capturing a playful, homemade feel ideal for a family Thanksgiving activity.

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.


A Thanksgiving-themed image showing a DIY Thankful Tree craft. A small branch is placed in a vase, creating a tree structure. Colorful paper leaves are cut out and hang from the branches, each leaf with words of gratitude written on it. The tree is set on a cozy table surrounded by markers, extra paper leaves, and autumn decorations like mini pumpkins and fall leaves, capturing a warm, family-friendly Thanksgiving atmosphere, ideal for a holiday craft blog.

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.


A Thanksgiving-themed image showing a DIY pumpkin seed mosaic craft made by kids. The mosaic features colorful, painted pumpkin seeds arranged in fall shapes like a turkey and leaves. The craft is displayed on a cozy table with warm autumn decorations such as mini pumpkins, candles, and colorful leaves, capturing a family-friendly, playful atmosphere perfect for a Thanksgiving craft blog.

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.


A Thanksgiving-themed DIY craft scene showing a leaf painting activity. Real autumn leaves, dipped in vibrant red, orange, and yellow paint, are arranged alongside colorful leaf prints on white paper. The scene includes paint jars, paintbrushes, and autumn leaves coated with paint, ready for stamping onto paper. Set on a crafting table, this cozy, family-friendly setup captures a hands-on Thanksgiving activity ideal for kids and families.

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.



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.

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.


A Thanksgiving-themed DIY craft image showing a batch of homemade pumpkin spice playdough in a warm orange color. The playdough is displayed on a crafting table with ingredients nearby, such as pumpkin pie spice, flour, and food coloring. Small cookie cutters and autumn-themed molds are placed around the playdough, inviting kids to shape and play. The cozy scene has a sensory-friendly, family-oriented feel, perfect for a Thanksgiving craft blog.

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.


A Thanksgiving-themed image showing DIY turkey napkin rings made from small sections of cardboard toilet paper rolls. Each ring is decorated with colorful paper feathers attached at the back, and the front has a cute turkey face made with googly eyes, an orange beak, and a red wattle. Folded napkins are placed through the rings, arranged on a cozy Thanksgiving table with autumn decorations like mini pumpkins, fall leaves, and candles. The setup is warm and family-friendly, ideal for a Thanksgiving table setting.

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!


 
 



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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