Thanksgiving Art & Craft Ideas

Make beautiful Thanksgiving decorations or engage your kids with interesting Thanksgiving crafts on this holiday using our quick and easy art & craft ideas. You can use walnuts to make easy turkey ornaments. Just brush glue on the fabrics and stack fabrics on the sides and bottom of the walnut and then cover it with aluminum foil to make it look like turkey's body. Fold strips of cotton fabric into pleats in accordion style, to make the tail of the turkey and glue one end of the pleats together. Glue this tail to the bottom of the turkey. Use a piece of sisal rope to make the head and neck of the turkey. You can embellish the turkey by adding a small wattle made of red felt on the front of head and a small diamond-shaped piece of yellow felt as the peak. Use black marker to mark the eyes of the turkey.

Cut out small diamond shaped wings from a matching fabric or paper and attach it to your turkey's sides. Now place these turkeys near your table centerpieces, on candleholders and on the sides of decorative vases in your room while entertaining your guests on Thanksgiving. Children love to make headbands that resemble those of Native Indians and wear them later to show them off to their friends. Cut a strip of paper about 2 inches thick from the paper bag that is long enough to be wrapped around your forehead. Paint random designs on your headband. Cut feather shapes from the construction paper and glue them to the top edge of your headband from inside. Now wear the headband and ask any adult to staple the ends together at the back of your head. Now you can play Native Indians and welcome Pilgrims from Mayflower to your home(land).