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Easy Thanksgiving Handmade Crafts for Kids

Do you wish to celebrate Thanksgiving with arts and crafts? Thanksgiving is such an exquisite time for crafts, particularly for your little ones. I’ve collected 7 of my favorites Easy Thanksgiving Handmade Crafts for Kids to share with you and your little ones.

Thanksgiving- an occasion peculiar to the Americans is celebrated on different days at different areas like on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. The people gather together for a day of feasting, football and family. Considered an important day for the family and friends to thank each other for everything and for all the support, love and care that they have showered.

Thanksgiving is considered to be a day for strengthening relationships. Houses are decorated in the most spectacular manner, a lavish feast with having different types of turkey is a must, pumpkins can be seen all around and the entire atmosphere is filled with a positive and enthusiastic aura.

This thanksgiving, give thanks the DIY way with these colorful and super easy home-made crafts:

1. Easy Thanksgiving Craft Ideas for Kids

Do you have those cute little munchkins at your home and it’s their thanksgiving too? Here we have a video for your tiny tots that have simple ideas from making a cute envelope that opens into a heart shape to making a smart and drooling umbrella, creating a craftsy bow using simple ribbon and a fork or making a sweet little explosion box or the magical color changing message box- we have a gamut of wide ranging, easy to implement ideas.

2. Turkey Paper Craft

As we know by now that turkey is the traditional thanksgiving delicacy of the American Culture, this thanksgiving, follows this simple video that has easy steps for your kid to help him make a paper craft turkey. All you need is some colored A3 size sheets with a hole punched on the upper side, scissor, glue and brown and black marker.

Simply draw the picture of a turkey (refer to this video for the design) and cut it out and paint it using the brown marker. Now cut the colored sheet in long vertical stripes and attach them from end to end to make a hook like structure. On a white sheet, draw a semi-circle and start pasting the hooks within the circle covering the sheet. Repeat the same with different colored hooks and lastly paste the paper turkey beneath the feather design and write your message.

3. Recycled Turkey Crafts

It’s good to adopt environment friendly measures to celebrate a festival and thus, this thanksgiving be light on the environment and use scrap recyclable products lying at home for making a beautiful turkey.
Take a hollow cylindrical tube, like that of an aluminium foil and wrap it in brown sheet. Next, take different colored sheets and get several leaf shaped cutouts from them and paste it on one of the ends of the foil in a semicircle forming a crown like structure. Make the eyes of the turkey using buttons or markers and use red and yellow sheets to make the turkey’s nose and mouth and your turkey is ready is 5 minutes! Refer to this video to watch the simple process:

4. Turkey Crafts For Kids

Thanksgiving is for everybody from adults to kids and thus, we have a tutorial for all the little munchkins as well who are willing to wear on the craftsy cap and celebrate the thanksgiving in an artistic manner.

The first thing to do is trace out your hands and feet on colored sheets and cutout the shape. You would require two cutouts of your feet and around 8-10 hand cutouts of different colored sheets. Now, modify the feet cutouts a little by making the toe part slightly pointed and join the two cutouts horizontally and with a little overlapping so as to make a turkey’s abdominal body. Afterwards, arrange and paste the hand cutouts on the back side of the body, in a random pattern with a little overlapping so as to give an effect of the wings. In the end, make the turkey’s eyes, nose, mouth and feet with the help of marker and other colored sheets and your colorful turkey is ready. Watch this video for the detailed steps:

5. Clay Pot Turkey Craft

Are you one of those last minute freaks who remember to do everything at the last minute? If yes, then this video will be the best tutorial for you to make this thanksgiving a little extra special. Watch this video to know some easy last minute thanksgiving crafts that too by using a clay pot- feasible and easily available.

All you need to do is take a small clay pot and paint it brown using acrylic paint. Let it dry for an hour and then measure the height of the pot and cutout a brown colored triangle and paste it on the pot. Now take different colored feathers that are easily available in the market and paste it on the brown sheets to make a feather tail. Make it as thick as you like. On the other side of the pot, use buttons to make the Turkey’s eyes and yellow and red sheets to make its nose and mouth. You have a beautiful turkey with you that you can use either for gifting purpose or as a showpiece to decorate your house.

6. Paper Pumpkin Craft

Are you bored with too much of turkey crafts and are looking for something different for this thanksgiving? Then we have here a unique, different and easy craft for you: A Perfect Pumpkin Craft.

All you need is just an orange colored sheet and a scotch tape. Begin by cutting eight equal strips from the orange colored sheet. Fold each strip and mark the center on each of them. Now, make a pair of two strips and arrange them from center-to-center in order to make a little T. To finish, glue the two T’s together to make an eight pointed star and use the four strips left to make another pumpkin. Take two ends of the bottom most strips and tape them together to make a loop. Follow the same steps with the rest of the strips and you have your pumpkin with you.

7. Easy Thanksgiving Craft For Kids

Kids are generally attracted towards colors and prefer to have everything colorful around them and it is believed that crafts are the best way to teach your kid about any festival or other important event. Therefore, we have the most colorful and the easiest craft for your kids to celebrate this thanksgiving. All you need to do is take different colored sponge sheets and trace your kid’s hand on it. Cut them out and paste them on the ends of a thermocol plate, covering the plate’s circumference. Now, cut out a small ribbon shaped design from red sheet and write thankful on it. Cut out the white thermocol part of the plate that is visible using a cutter and your colorful craft for thanksgiving is ready. You can use it to decorate your walls or can hang it in your lamps.

Celebrate this thanksgiving with these amazing and easy traditional Easy Thanksgiving Handmade Crafts ideas or the pumpkin crafts. We hope you loved all Easy Thanksgiving Handmade Crafts for Kids. We are sure these Easy Thanksgiving Handmade Crafts will make your kids happy and satisfied. You can check out other related articles on K4 Craft. We would love to hear from you. You can leave your opinion and feedback in the comments section given below. We will come up with more such useful content for you. Until then keep smiling and creating with K4 Craft.

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