Craft up some Thanksgiving fun this month with these three crafts:
- Fold a piece of brown paper (approx 9x12) in fourths.
- Trace child’s hand on paper, leaving as much arm as will fit for a tree trunk. The fingers are the branches.
- Cut out all four layers at once (if it’s you cutting—if the kids cut, you probably want to trace their hands 4 times so they can cut each one separately).
- Glue each tree/hand to white cardstock that's been folded in half
- Use fingers dipped in paint to add red, yellow, orange, green, and brown leaves.
- When the cards dry, use them to send Thanksgiving greetings to friends and family.
- You can use real gourds, if you happen to have any, or for a more permanent craft, use simulated gourds from the craft store.
- Figure out how to get the gourds to stand—you might try gluing on Popsicle sticks to make a platform, playdoh, maybe cutting off part of the bottom.
- Use feathers, googly eyes, pipecleaners, and whatever else you can think of to turn the gourds into turkeys—it might help to have a few pictures of turkeys available for the kids to look at.
Thankful Turkey PaperCraft
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- Cut a turkey body from brown paper and several feathers from colored paper, either freehand, or choose one of the templates above.
- Glue the turkey together--if you used a template, follow its instructions. If you're crafting freestyle, don't forget to add details like eyes, a beak and snood (that red thing that hangs down over the beak), and feet.
- Write one thing the child is thankful for on each feather--you can either do this all at once while you're crafting, one each day, or as ideas occur.
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