Children can make a variety of crafts suitable for the Thanksgiving season.
Thanksgiving is a time to celebrate the people and possessions in life for which you are thankful. Even as the national holiday honors the early-American settlers and their harvest feast known as the first Thanksgiving, children in modern society can create easy craft projects that helps them celebrate this historical observance in a personal way. With just a little preparation you can make multiple, easy Thanksgiving kid crafts.
Decorations
Kids can create items that will make a classroom or home more festive during the Thanksgiving holiday season. For example, a child can create a garland of leaves by cutting leaves out of construction paper and hanging them from green yarn using miniature clothespins, according to Kaboose.com, an online source of entertainment ideas for kids. The child can even allow friends or family members to each write one thing for which they are thankful on one of the leaves.
In addition, kids can produce their own votive candle holder by attaching a variety of Thanksgiving or fall stickers to a baby food jar and wrapping ribbon around the jar. They also can put glitter on the outside of the homemade candle holder and then place a votive candle inside to use as a Thanksgiving dinner centerpiece.
Head Wear
Another Thanksgiving kid craft is to make a pilgrim's hat. Girls can use white construction paper or felt to create a girl's Pilgrim hat and then use yarn to hold the hat in place on their heads. Boys could make a Pilgrim hat using black or gray felt or construction paper, which they could wear for a holiday play or on Thanksgiving Day.
Developing a turkey headdress is yet another easy option for children and involves using construction paper to cut out a circular turkey head, oval-shaped turkey feathers, a beak and a gobbler. A child then can glue the turkey parts together and cut out a strip of construction paper to serve as a headband to wrap the headdress around his head.
Cornucopias
Consider making a cornucopia craft with your child, which is a symbol of abundance during the Thanksgiving holiday. Kids can glue gum drops, candies and dried fruits and nuts in a sugar ice cream cone--which will serve as the cornucopia--so that the cornucopia filling of sweets is spilling out, according to AmazingMoms.com.
In addition, children can cut out a cornucopia and fruit shapes from construction paper. In fact, they then can trim the cornucopia and the fruits--which will serve as the cornucopia's filling--into very small pieces and glue them all together to create a cornucopia mosaic.
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