Thanksgiving Crafts

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Q: What are some good thanksgiving crafts?
I have 2 girl scout troops a brownie and a junior level. in nov, we are doing a can food drive for a community project. well for our nov. meeting i want them to do a thanksgiving craft any ideas. also if u can think of some good christmas crafts as well.

A: HAND AND FOOT TURKEY CRAFT This cute turkey decoration is made from your child's handprints and footprints. PINE CONE TURKEY CRAFT This turkey decoration is made from a pine cone, an acorn, and construction paper POP-UP PLACE CARDS Print and color pop-up placecards of Pilgrim hats, pumpkins, and acorns.

Q: Fun Thanksgiving crafts for small kids ?
I would like some ideas for Thanksgiving crafts to do with my grand kids ages 6, 5, and 3 years old. Thanks

A: Handprint turkeys. Draw around each child's hand on construction paper, then let them decorate with markers, glitter glue and feathers. Have a "turkey art" hanging ceremony so eveyrone's best efforts are displayed! Have fun!

Q: What are some good (maybe sellable) Thanksgiving crafts?
Maybe a website would help! Please tell me some good ones that maybe you have tried. Oh by the way I would like easy maybe middle school level?

A: Thanksgiving related dioramas. Here are a couple sample ones... http://familycrafts.about.com/library/photalb/blthanxdiorama.htm http://kozinsmotorpool.tripod.com/dioramas/thanksgiving.jpg All the materials you need you can find in nature or things you already have around the house. You can use clay or even bread dough to make people, food, animals, etc.. Buildings can be made from fallen branches you can find outside or from cardboard or whatever you'd imagine would make a good house. Use paint, glue, and any other art material you have available. What you do and materials used are only limited by your imagination. Get creative. This may become a Thanksgiving tradition. Very inexpensive and can be very sellable.

Q: Thanksgiving crafts for kids?
I am the leader of a Girl Scout troop. We need good Thanksgiving crafts for 8 year old girls. Easy, fun and inexpensive. Thanks!

A: You'll need: Different colors of paint - browns, reds, oranges, and yellows. Construction Paper - brown and/or red Elmer's School Glue Stick-on (or glue-on) eyes Washable Markers Use hands to make a handprint with the paint on a blank piece of computer paper or whatever you have, and overlap different print colors with fingers in between the gaps. While kids use the paint, cut out "Turkey Heads" that they will glue on later. Here's a pic you can go off of for shape of head. http://www.kaboose.com/imageLibrary/hand-tur-pic.gif While paint is drying, glue eyes onto heads and draw beaks (and wattles, if wanted). Glue fully-crafted heads onto the handpainted paper. Don't forget feet! :-)

Q: looking for child made thanksgiving crafts for my 2yr old class?
i am tired of the cut and paste stuff i want something more that actually lil kids made it not the teachers.so i welcome all the ideas i can get for thanksgiving.thanks in advance

A: I like the handprint turkey and macaroni necklaces, but pinecone birdfeeders are also nice. The kids each get a pinecone, cover it with peanutbutter, then roll it in birdseed. Gives you the opportunity to talk about sharing and giving thanks and let's the kids get in on the act.

Q: Ideas for a Thanksgiving crafts for elementary school aged children?


A: Traditional Hand Turkey- Have the kids trace their hand, color it, draw a face on the thumb. Glue some feathers Collage- Get each child to write down a thanksgiving related word on a piece of paper and decorate in as they would like, then put together on a poster paper. Basket of food- wish styrafoam balls and pieces of cardboard ask kids to bring in fall colored fabric and cover the items with it, decorate then place in basket. Paper Bags- Ask each child to bring in a can of food from home. Then have them decorate a paper bag with fall / thanksgiving type theme. Then have each child place thier can in the bag so it can be deliverd to a local food bank, for families to have for Christmas. this link is a page with a lovely craft for children http://www.familiesonlinemagazine.com/allinone.jpg

Q: Any Ideas for Thanksgiving crafts?
Im babysitting and his mom said he loves doing crafts so were doing thanksgiving crafts. Any ideas? thx!

A: Turkey Hat CRAFT MATERIALS: Scissors Brown paper bags Cardboard (cereal box) Glue stick Colored construction paper 2 small white pom-poms Black permanent marker Time needed: Under 1 Hour 1. From the brown paper bags, cut a circle 3 1/2 inches in diameter for the turkey's head. Next, cut a 3-inch-wide band to fit around your child's head. 2. From the cardboard, cut a strip 5 by 1 1/2 inches to use for a neck. Fold it three times accordion style, then glue one end to the back of the paper circle. 3. For a beak, fold yellow construction paper and cut out a small double triangle (1 1/2 inches along the fold). Cut a rounded L from red paper for the turkey's wattle. 4. To create eyes, draw a black circle on each pom-pom with the marker. Glue the eyes, wattle and one side of the beak to the head. Let them dry. Then, glue the loose end of the neck to the center of the headband. 5. Now, wrap the headband around your child's head; mark where the ends overlap, then remove the band and glue the ends. Finally, glue on construction paper feathers and wings.

Q: fun thanksgiving crafts for little kids?
hey i was wondering what would be fun to do on thanksgiving day like crafts ect

A: My neice made her mother a turkey out of a pine cones and feathers and pipe cleaners. It looked very festive and cute, and relativly easly to make. What you need: Nice plump pine cone Feathers (assorted colors) Brown, red, orange and yellow felt Goggley eyes Turkey pattern Scissors Glue Directions: Wash and dry pine cone if you picked it outside. Cut out the turkey body pieces using the template provided. Glue head, eyes, nose, gobbler and feet on the pine cone. Glue 4-7 Feathers on the top of the pine cone Here is a picture of the final result. http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/ys/crafts/IMAGES/PINETURK.GIF

Q: Any ideas for Thanksgiving craft or entertainment?
There will only be 7 @ our Thanksgiving this year. We are looking for something to do to pass the time, other than watch TV or a movie, etc. We want a craft, game, or activity to entertain people from age 10-60. Any ideas?

A: Bob for apples. Break a pinata. Pin the tail on the turkey, or make a Thanksgiving Day Sweatshirt with your computer. See instructions below.

Q: Easy crafts for Thanksgiving?
Does any body know a fun and easy thanksgiving craft that the kids can make out of stuff layng around the house?

A: I did this in elementart school. You will need... Brown Paper Bag Multi colored construction paper glue/markers/ect. make the bag the body for a turkey. used differant colors of construction paper to make a face/feathers feet and legs.. ectt Very easy. only thing would be if you want to pre-cut the things for them to do. ALSO you can make a turkey out of apples, prettzles and marshmellows. use pretzels to make legs arms ect. throw on the marshmellows for fun... then they can eat it!! you could add chewy candy too!! hope this helps..

Q: Hey i need some fun halloween and thanksgiving crafts for kids between the age of 2 and 12!!!?
i am trying to come up with some fun creative crafts for young kids that will take less than an hour with not too many supplies!! :D

A: Online, you can check out the Oriental Trading Company for special crafts for these seasons. They often sell in lots of a dozen or more, so it's good for groups. For ordinary crafts (save the OTC ones for special days) you can do things like a paper plate Jack-o-lantern mask, ghost lollipops (wrap a single sheet of facial tissue over a round lollipop, like a TootsiePop or a BlowPop, and tie a piece of yarn under its chin and draw on eyes to make a cute little ghostie,) yarn dolls for little scarecrows, and so on. Thanksgiving is harder, but there's always cut-out handprints in autumn leaf colors glued to an outline of a tree (do one big tree for the whole group, with everyone contributing a few of his or her own traced handprints to tape or glue on) and other fun stuff like this. You can purchase natural and colored wooden beads and have the kids string necklaces like the Native Americans wore. Get that stationery/printer paper that's printed to look like it has a scroll on it, and have the kids write out what they're thankful for (you help the littler ones, of course.)

Q: Little Thanksgiving Crafts?
What are some good Thanksgiving crafts? Small like home made muffin mix in a pumkin tin. Something simple but crafty!!**

A: um, little bonnets for the turkey?

Q: Thanksgiving Crafts!????HELP!?
hi everyone! Thanksgiving is in like 22 days or something right? So my family and I are going to my Grandmothers house fo thanksgiving. Everyone put me in charge to make crafts, napkin holders, ect. The problem is I have no freakin idea what to make I have been on Familyfun.com & made one thing but all of the other stuff on there requires materials we dont have. I really don't want to spend money on anything! Help! what do I make? Thank you very much!=D Please answer!

A: Get some Thanksgiving clip art for free, print some off for table decorations, napkin rings, place cards, a welcome sign, etc. They have a bunch, really cute. Print it in color, or black and white and then color or outline it yourself with markers.

Q: I need Halloween or Thanksgiving candy craft ideas?
I work at a nursing home in activities. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on making hallloween crafts out of candy corn or other candy. Maybe any other crafty ideas. Thanksgiving would be great too. Anything that pops into your head would be great. Thanks!

A: We always grew up making ghosts out of tootsie pops (wrap a couple white kleenex around the head of the pop, tie at the "neck" with yarn or floss, and use a marker to make eyes or a scary face!) I remember when I was young, my neighbor had made candy "trains" for all the kids she knew, so I looked that up. Here are a couple examples: http://www.sylvan.com/~tigger/samples/cantrain.html http://www.spritzels.com/xmas/candy-train.html my neighbor's had the hershey's kiss right side up so the paper flag looked like smoke While I was searching I came up with this one too http://www.kckpl.lib.ks.us/YS/CRAFTS/CANDYAIR.HTM What if you reinvent the gingerbread house idea andmake a haunted house? In elementary school we made gingerbread houses with the little half pint milk cartons, icing and graham crackers. You could use chocolate icing instead of white (no snow on halloween) and black licorice, marshmallow ghosts, those little pumpkins that taste like candy corn, and I bet you can find some gummies of skeletons or witches or something.

Q: How do I keep the little ones occupied for Thanksgiving?
I'm going to have my nephews (2,5 and 6) at my house this holiday season and I'm having trouble coming up with ways to keep them occupied while everyone's cooking and cleaning. I don't believe in TV as a babysitter and they can only do minor cooking/cleaning tasks. Are there Thanksgiving crafts or something that don't take too much supervision?

A: Why don't you buy them some glue, coloured paper, etc, and give them some blunt paper to make cards out of? You can clean or whatever and check they're okay every so often. Or they could play a board game, something like hungry frogs? As for the little one, put him in a cot near where his siblings are playing. Play some music and give him some things to play with.