Thanksgiving Crafts!

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

CD Turkeys
Use some old cds and construction paper to keep little hands busy Thanksgiving morning - and get some super cute turkeys to display as a bonus!

Handprint Pumpkin Patch
Our Handprint Pumpkin Patch is a great place to start to create fun fall decorations for your classroom, a bulletin board or just to record those precious little handprints on paper!

Thankful Turkey
A great family activity and teaching opportunity, grab some construction paper and markers and draw a huge turkey! 10 or 12 days before Thanksgiving add feathers that say what each family member is thankful for.

Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes
A great way to entertain and feed your kiddos, make some cupcakes, mix up some orange frosting and then let them do all the work of decorating their pumpkin cupcakes.

Paper Cup Turkey
This is a fun simple craft that could be done Thanksgiving Day to keep all those little people entertained. Let them gobble up dinner and then create their own gobblers out of paper cups.

Fingerprint Turkeys
A simple idea using those adorable kid thumbs, some paint and markers - this turkey themed project can be completed in just a few minutes and makes an adorable painting to display or share!


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Grateful for Autumn

Paper Bag Pumpkin

Autumn is my favorite season, so I am always grateful to see the leaves change color and the days get a little shorter. I know, it's sort of strange but the smell of fall in the chilly air just thrills my senses! 

With fall in full swing, it's definitely time to do a little harvest partying! Start with a few of our fall and thanksgiving crafts to get your creativity flowing.

Fall Handprint Wreath
An easy, fun wreath you can make and display on a class bulletin board or your own front door!

Basket of Thanks
A simple tool to teach gratitude and learning about pilgrims, turkeys and Thanksgiving!

Thankful Turkey
A family craft project that can double as an advent calendar or gratitude chart!

Awesome Owl Snack
A creative snack kids can make and then eat!

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Fall For Our Leaf Crafts

Leaf Turkey

Now that fall is officially started, it's time explore some leaf projects! Entertain the kids with some leaf inspired crafts and encourage them to help clean up all those fallen leaves too - a nice way to accomplish alot with just a little!

Autumn Tree
Use your imagination and a sponge to create a pretty fall tree on paper to decorate a classroom, teaching studio or bedroom...and enjoy those fall colors!

Coffee Filter Leaves
Get crazy and creative with your coffee filters and make some leaves to hang up, decorate with or pass around for a little fall fun. Don't forget the java!

Fall Handprint Wreath
Preserve those precious little hand-prints and create a pretty fall wreath to display on your front door, in a class or in your home, using paint, paper, scissors and glue!

Leaf People
Create a family of leaf people with your little kids or classroom - name them, tell stories about them and send them on adventures, with simple supplies: leaves, paper,crayons and markers.

Leaf Rubbings
With white paper and crayons you can inspire your class or homeschoolers to create an artistic view of fall and autumn, and end up with some very pretty art work to show off!


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Thanksgiving Day Crafts To Keep Them Busy!

A Very Special Turkey

While you are busy prepping, cooking and carving the turkey, as well as preparing a hundred other dishes, what will your little turkeys be doing? Gobbling up the free time by getting into mischief? Or creating something fun and slightly more productive, as well as keeping them occupied?

Here are a few last minute Thanksgiving themed craft projects and ideas to keep your gobblers entertained and content, at least until the turkey is done.

Fingerprint Turkeys
A simple idea using those adorable kid thumbs, some paint and markers - this turkey themed project can be completed in just a few minutes and makes an adorable painting to display or share!

Best Turkey Hands Down
This is another easy turkey craft that will delight your kiddos as they get to show off their "handy" work and their turkeys!

Fall Colors Placemat
If you are having company for Thanksgiving and planning for several little ones, why not let them help decorate by creating their very own fall colors place mats?

Turkey Hand Puppet
If you have a paper bag and some construction paper, you've got yourself a happy little paper bag puppet for little hands to stay busy and be creative!

Celebrate your holiday in style with some of our Thanksgiving and turkey themed crafts. Connect with us on Facebook to share your favorite turkey day project, or visit The Idea Box for oodles and oodles of Thanksgiving Day projects and activities!

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Turkey Lurkey Love!

CD Turkeys

With Thanksgiving Day right around the corner, you may want to keep your little turkeys busy with some simple, fun turkey crafts!

I've collected just a few of my favorites for you to try this weekend or next week. You may need a go-to activity to keep little fingers busy while you prepare for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Finger Painted Turkeys
With some simple supplies, your kids can be making some finger painted turkeys in no time! This is a fun craft to do to fill a quick bit of time or even as a lesson tool.

Thankful Turkey
A great family activity and teaching opportunity, grab some construction paper and markers and draw a huge turkey! 10 or 12 days before Thanksgiving add feathers that say what each family member is thankful for.

Oreo Turkeys
An adorable food craft - turn an oreo, or two or three, into a sweet little turkey to enjoy on Thanksgiving or any time. Your kids will love creating these edible oreo turkeys!

Paper Cup Turkey
This is a fun simple craft that could be done Thanksgiving Day to keep all those little people entertained. Let them gobble up dinner and then create their own gobblers out of paper cups.

I hope I've given you enough turkey ideas to tide your little ones over until Turkey Day! These would also make cute grandparent gifts for Thanksgiving to show appreciation. Connect with us on Facebook to share your favorite turkey craft or visit The Idea Box for more fall and Thanksgiving projects and ideas!

More Punkin-Lunkin Fun For Fall!

Handprint Pumpkin Patch

Don't put those pumpkins away just yet! There is still plenty of pumpkin fun to be had with your little punkins, even though Halloween and Jack-O-Lanterns are behind us. Fall looks lovelier with some pretty pumpkins adorning your doorstep or table!

Our Handprint Pumpkin Patch is a great place to start to create fun fall decorations for your classroom, a bulletin board or just to record those precious little handprints on paper!

Paper Bag Pumpkin
Don't have pumpkins at hand? Or don't want the orange beasts about? Make your own paper bag pumpkins as an art project for the kids to take home or use to decorate your classroom.

Pass The Pumpkin
Our fall version of Hot Potato - gather your kiddos or class into a circle, turn on your tunes and get to passing that pumpkin around.

Easy Pumpkin Cupcakes
A great way to entertain and feed your kiddos, make some cupcakes, mix up some orange frosting and then let them do all the work of decorating their pumpkin cupcakes.

What's Inside A Pumpkin?
A fun activity that could also be used as a teaching tool or lesson prop, kids learn what's inside their pumpkin and get to really dig in to it too!

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Pumpkin Love and some Crafts!

Pumpkin Pie Craft

Are you ready for November, Turkey Dinner and Pumpkin Pie? Me too! I've collected some fun and easy pumpkin themed crafts and games for you to enjoy with your kiddos, to help while away the fall. Cooler temperatures mean more indoor time - what better way to keep kids entertained?


Pumpkin Patch Game
This is a great game for teaching manners, language development, money awareness, descriptive words and so much more. Visit the link for the details.

Musical Pumpkin Game
A combination of charades and musical chairs...With some music and a plastic pumpkin, you can play this game with preschoolers and older kids too!

Pumpkin Cookies
A fun snack craft for your kids to do - decorate their own pumpkin cookies. You provide the decorations, they'll provide the giggles.

Mr. Pumpkin Head
Like Mr. Potato Head only bigger! Set out your pumpkin with some washable markers, damp sponge and accessories and watch your kiddos decorate their own Mr. Pumpkin Head!


However you celebrate November, enjoy the pumpkins and play. Connect with us on Facebook to share your favorite pumpkin craft or visit The Idea Box for more Thanksgiving and pumpkin games and ideas.

New Thanksgiving Crafts

We've added several new Thanksgiving crafts thanks to our newest contributor, Jennifer of Ramblings of a Crazy Woman. Check out each of these cute ideas for your preschool and toddler kids!

Are you interested in sharing your ideas on The Idea Box? Let us know, we'd love to feature you on our website!

Thanksgiving Dinner Craft

Pumpkin Pie Craft
 

Leaf Turkey
 

Finger Print Indian Corn
 

Finger Painted Turkeys
 

Paper Bag Turkey Hand Puppet
 

Paper Cup Turkey

Thanksgiving Crafts for Little Ones

Here are a few new Thanksgiving projects we just added to The Idea Box. We'd love to see what you, your kids, and your classrooms have been working on! if you would like to share your ideas and have them included on our website, please contact Amanda at editor@theideabox.com

NEW IDEAS

Leaf Turkey Thanksgiving Craft

Pumpkin Pie Craft

Thanksgiving Dinner Craft

Special thanks to our newest contributor, Jennifer of Ramblings of a Crazy Woman for these fun projects!

See all of our Thanksgiving crafts and ideas here.

Crafty Wednesday: Fall Colors Place Mat

Each Wednesday we'll bring you a fun craft to make with your kids!

This week's craft is...

Fall Colors Place Mat

white and black construction paper
tempera paint
paper towels
fallen leaves
clear contact paper

In a sink or a water table, wet one side of a large sheet of white construction paper. Use paintbrushes to drop yellow, green and red tempera paint around on the wet side of the paper. Tip the paper back and forth so that the colors run together, you may want to add a little more water to get an all over effect. Let it dry on some paper towels. Place several collected leaves on the large sheet of black construction paper (do not glue). Trace around the leaves. Remove the leaves. Carefully cut out the leaves. When the color swirled paper is dry, glue the black paper on top of it so that the colors show through the leaf cut out shapes. This is a great effect. You can add a decorative edge to the place mat. When done, place clear contact paper over the mat, or laminate.

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Tuesday Recipe: A Turkey For The Turkey

Each Tuesday we'll bring you a tasty recipe or craft recipe to make with your kids!

This week's recipe is...

A Turkey For The Turkey

Small brown paper bag
1 ziplock bag
1 cup of rice
glue
Yellow construction paper
2 wiggly eyes
Orange construction paper
Red construction paper
Small square with the recipe printed
1 small rubberband

Print the recipe for "GOBBLE-GOOD TURKEY CASSEROLE" on a small square piece of paper. It is as follows:

1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can cream of celery soup
1 package onion soup mix
1 cup rice (provided inside turkey)
1-1/2 cups milk
2 or 3 cups leftover turkey

Combine all ingredients in a large casserole dish. Bake covered 45 min. at 350 degrees. Gobble up!

Next make the paper sack turkey. Put the cup of rice in the ziplock bag and insert into the paper sack. This will be for the receiver of this turkey to use in their recipe. The paper sack will be the turkey's body. Bunch the middle of the papersack together and wrap the rubber band around the middle. This will give you 2 sections to the turkey. You will cut long slits on the open end of the sack. The slits need to be close together. This will create the feathers for the rear of your turkey.

The actual bottom of what use to be the paper sack is now going to be the front of your turkey. This is where you will need to glue your turkey's head that you cut out of yellow construction paper. The top of the head needs to stick up over the sack about 2 inches. Then cut out the diamond shape out of orange paper to glue on the beak. Next glue on the wiggly eyes. Finally you need to add the wattle by cutting out a thin rectangle out of the red construction paper and curling it with your scissors. Glue this directly under the beak.

Now that your turkey's face is complete you need to cut out 2 cute turkey feet to glue on the bottom of your turkey so they stick out a little from under the paper sack. Finally you glue on the "GOBBLE-GOOD TURKEY CASSEROLE" recipe right under the chin of the turkey. You're finished! Enjoy!

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Monday Music: A Funny Bird

Each Monday we'll bring you a fun song to sing with your kids!

This week's song is...

A Funny Bird

(make up your own tune)

The Turkey is a funny bird
His head goes wobble, wobble.
And all he ssays is just one word...
Gobble, gobble,gobble,
Gobble, gobble, gobble.

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Friday Activity: Thanksgiving Tablecloth

Each Friday we'll bring you a fun activity to do with your kids!

This week's activity is...

Thanksgiving Tablecloth

Lg sheet of butcher paper
crayons
markers
paint and brushes
stickers
glitter
glue
construction paper
scissors

spread butcher paper out on table and decorate using crayons, markers, etc. use your imagination. using a thanksgiving theme. there r no limits to the fun. trace hands to make turkeys... write a list of what your thankful for, etc. makes a very cute tablecloth. You can use fall colors to decorate with, and you can also write "Happy Thanksgiving" down the center of the 'cloth'.

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Thursday Games: Stuff The Turkey!

Each Thursday we'll bring you a fun game to play with your kids!

This week's game is...

Stuff The Turkey!

Brown paper bag
two small brown lunch paper bags
newspaper
tissue paper
tape
stapler
glue

Fold down about 4" of the large brown bag - keep the fold inside. Fold and staple in each of the four edges of the bag so that the opening is smaller. Smooth out the opening to make it rounded. Stuff the two small paper bags with newspaper. Twist the top of the bags and tape to form the drumsticks. Cut strips of the red tissue paper and glue around the twisted top of the drumsticks for decoration. Glue the drumsticks on the sides of the "turkey". For the stuffing, wad up pieces of the newspaper and tape together to form balls.

TO PLAY: Players stand back about four feet and take turns tossing the "stuffing" into the "turkey". See who can get the most in.

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Crafty Wednesday: Apple Family Tree

Each Wednesday we'll bring you a fun craft to make with your kids!

This week's craft is...

Apple Family Tree

brown paint
green paint
red paint
large sheet of paper
paint brush

Use washable paint. Paint child's arm to the elbow and hand brown. Open fingers and print the arm and hand on a large sheet of paper. Let dry. Sponge paint green leaves on the tree. Let dry. Make a fist and press either thumb end or pinky end in red paint. Press these hand apples onto the tree. Make one apple for Mom, Dad, self, siblings. When dry, add their names.

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Friday Activity: Thankful For Book

Each Friday we'll bring you a fun activity to do with your kids!

This week's activity is...

Thankful For Book

construction paper
markers
scissors
stapler

Have children trace their hand and cut out. They can write their name and what they are thankful for on it. Put all the hands together and staple to make a book. optional - you can also punch a hole at the top of each one and thread string through to make a banner and hang!

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Crafty Wednesday: Corn Cob Printed Placemat

Each Wednesday we'll bring you a fun craft to make with your kids!

This week's craft is...

Corn Cob Printed Placemat

small raw ears of corn
tempura paint
18x24 white construction paper

Paint ears of corn with tempra paint then roll the painted corn across the paper. Use different fall colors. Laminate these to use for your classroom Thanksgiving feast. Be sure to put corn-on -the-cob holders into the ends of the corn if you'd like to avoid messy hands.

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