Thanksgiving season is quickly coming. Thanksgiving has a special significance for all of us. For some of us, it all about meeting family after months, again for some it's about some family traditions, some nostalgic memories, and some memorable anecdotes. It's the traditions and memories we make with our kids, that helps them live life after they've grown up. Simple traditions, simple memories, and Simple Stories.
Today, let me introduce you to one such wonderful thing you can do to make this day memorable for your kids. You can make crafts with your kids, or help your kids make some crafts. Kids love to help out when it's for something special occasion. So, without any further ado, let me introduce you to Thanksgiving crafts for kids.
Creative Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids: Inspiration/Ideas to help you inculcate gratitude in your child!
#1. Experiment with different ways to draw Turkey
Ask your kids to draw the popular spokes bird of Thanksgiving- Turkey. You'll be amazed at how beautiful these drawings are going to look once your kid finishes with it and you keep them all at one place.
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#2. Teach how to draw and paint a Turkey
Teach your kid how to draw and paint a Turkey. Now have fun watch them paint it out in their unique and innovative styles.
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#3. Make Play-dough Turkeys
I don't think that there is a single Kid, who doesn't like to play and make crafts using Playdoughs. This season help your little one make a Turkey using his favorite colors on the playdough.
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#4. Pinecone Turkeys
You can use your old Pinecones and use that to make a Turkey. They look adorable and it's quite easy to pull up. Help your little one make one this year.
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#5. Autumn Leaf Feather Turkey
November offers you the best of Fall Season. The colorful leaves outside can be of help now. You can use it to make colorful Turkey feathers and use this Turkey as a wall hanging.
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#6. Print Turkey Tracks
You can print Turkey Tracks. Make your Thanksgiving day a day full of fun and excitement with these quirky yet adorable little Turkey Tracks.
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#7. Make a Thankful bunting as a family Thanksgiving art activity
Thanksgiving is all about bringing the family together and when in our present times, it's difficult to be in touch with the family, you can always make room for crafts like these, that makes you feel thankful for your family and also in stills these values in your little ones.
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#8. Make Gratitude Rocks with melted crayons
You can use melted crayons to make gratitude rocks. You can put personalized messages or related words to make DIY wishing stones for the Thanksgiving season.
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#9. Try gratitude drawing prompts for Kids
When you cultivate the attitude of gratitude in your kids, it helps them in future to feel more empathy and optimistic. Try various drawings, themes and more to help your kid feel gratitude.
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#10. Ask your Kids to Draw something they are thankful for
Kids love drawings, when you draw something, you make it memorable in your mind forever. Thanksgiving season is special because your little one will feel grateful for everything that's already there. Ask your kid to draw something they are thankful for.
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#11. Thankful Kids Activity
You can help your kids make as many hearts as possible. Then ask them to give it away to other poor kids. Allow your kids to acknowledge the love and happiness, in life.
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#12. Towers of toothpicks and cranberries
You can help your kid make a tower of toothpick and cranberries. This is going to look adorable and your kid is going to exclaim out in joy.
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#13. Create a Thanksgiving Fall Leaf Garland
You can make a fall leaf garland and hang it by the door or along the mantle. These garlands are easy to make and kids love it when they are part of something creative anyway!
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#14. Print Gratitude Conversation Starters
You can print conversation starters with the ingenious and exciting help from your kids. Kids love to indulge in fun activities like these.
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#15. Make a Thankful Table with the Kids
Kids have a sharp intelligence. When it's Thanksgiving Day and you are thinking of everything needed to make the day memorable with your family, you can ask your kid to help you set up a Thankful Table with personalized messages and notes for everyone, kept on the table.
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#16. Wall of Blessings
This is the perfect alternate of Christmas Advent Calendars as well. You can use fall leaves and cloth pins to hand leaves and mark the days f November on it and then ask your kid to write down one thing he's grateful for each day in November!
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#17. Corn Husk Painting
Use Corn Husks and then help your little one paint it out. You can stick it all onto a headband and give it to your kid to wear it or you can even make a flower out of it by sticking dried leaves and Popsicle sticks to it.
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#18. Turkey Pudding Cups
This dessert is an easy and effective alternative to get your kids to eat squash. You can use Pudding cups to make this.
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#19. Fall Bookmark
You can use felt leaves and stick it on a Popsicle stick to make a wonderful and delightful Fall Bookmark. This can also be used as place markers with some personal messages on your holiday table!
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#20. Gratitude Pie and Turkey Leg Place Cards
You can make a spinning Pie Chart and ask your little ones to point out what they are thankful for. You can also make a Turkey leg using a paper bag. Stuff it with goodies and in the end, wrap your kid's name.
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#21. Family Tree
It's a great idea to introduce your child to the entire family on the family tree before they come over for the Thanksgiving Day lunch. You can ask your kids to help you make the family tree.
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#22. Birdseed Wreaths
Stick the birdseeds into a sticky wreath mold and ask your kids to keep it outside. It'll help inculcate good habits in your child, ones they'll be thankful for to you years down the line!
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#23. Paper Plate Leaf
The fall season brings you lots of festivals, festivities, and many surprises. Ask your child to take inspiration from the leaves changing colors outside and paint it out on papers. Now use these papers to cut out in the shape of a fall leaf and stick a popsicle stick at it's back. You can use it as a fancy showpiece later. Kids make any room wonderful.
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#24. Owl Puppet
Thanksgiving is all about Turkey, well you cannot say goodbye to dear Turkey's Friends either. You can make an easy Owl hat or Mask.
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#25. Leaf Sun-catchers
Ask your kids to rip up some Tissue Papers and Make Fall leaves out of it. Now stick these leaves to your windows and make adorable Leaf Sun catchers.
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#26. Pumpkin Handprint
Ask your Kids to paint their Palms in orange or red color and make cards with their handprints. You can send this card to your far away relatives or even take pictures of it for your Snapchat and Instagram.
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#27. Fall Leaf Painting
Use your backyard leaves to paint with them. Draw around it or trace it or keep it together and spray paint on it. Kids love colors and when it's the season of colors and they just want to head out and play, you can help them to indulge in something creative.
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#28. Gobble Globe
Use an empty baby food jar to make it into a gobble friend. Use color paper and glitters. Fill in the baby food jar with glitter and stick the color papers, cut out in the shapes of feathers around it. Make adorable eyes and nose of your Gobble friend.
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#29. Turkey Napkin Holders
Turkey Napkins holders are easy to make. Use felt and cut it into small petal-shaped feathers of the turkey. Make eyes with paper or spare broken buttons. Also, make an adorable Triangle shaped nose and a tongue rolling out below it, using red felt.
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#30. Corn Wreath
Use Construction papers of green and white colors and use bubble wrap to make corn ears. Paint up the construction paper with pieces of bubble wrap. And after they dry out you can stick green papers to make the corn husk. You can make the wreath structure using cardboard and keep sticking these corns on it. You can hang it at any place at your home and it'll look mesmerizing!
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Kids make our houses into homes. If you decorate your home with your kid's ideas, you'll probably end up living your own childhood. Thanksgiving crafts is a wonderful way to teach gratifying and accepting crafts to kids, which helps them develop qualities like gratefulness and thankfulness within themselves. So, this was the list of 30 creative crafts for Kids. If you liked this post then please share it.
Happy Thanksgiving!