10 Fun & Unique Thanksgiving Crafts For Your Kids

10 unique and fun Thanksgiving crafts

There are several Thanksgiving crafts to make the holiday fun, and entertaining for children. Check out these 10 awesome Thanksgiving craft ideas for your kids to have a wonderful & crafty Thanksgiving! 

Idea #1. Snack Cones

If you don’t want kids to munch on snacks and get full before your main Thanksgiving feast, keep them busy preparing cute paper snack cones for guests. You can give some paper and craft scissors to your kids so they can prepare special Thanksgiving snacks. 

Material Required: Decorative papers, scissors, glue stick, ribbons, and some crackers. 

How to make snack cones:

Step 1. Cut 7-inch-long cone shapes from decorative papers. 

Step 2. Roll the paper to form a cone shape and glue the long side. 

Step 3. Help your kid tie a ribbon bow to the cone and fill the open end with crackers or other dry snacks. 

Idea #2. Thanksgiving Menu Card 

If your kid is old enough to write and use watercolors, request them to create your Thanksgiving menu card to place on the table. This Thanksgiving craft idea will also help to improve your kid’s calligraphy skills. 

Material Required: Cardboard sheets, colorful glitter pens, and watercolors. 

How to make a Thanksgiving menu card:

Step 1. Help your kid to cut equal size cardboard sheets to create separate menu cards for each guest. 

Step 2. Now, leave your kid alone with colors so they can use their creativity to draw and write an adorable menu card. Once the menu cards are done, ask your kid to hand them over to guests before dinner. 

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Idea #3. Leaf Napkin Rings

Napkins are one of the important dinner table accessories and a great Thanksgiving craft idea. Your kids can make cute napkin rings by cutting leaves from old fabrics and papers to decorate your dinner table. 

Material Required: Old fabric, papers, scissors, and twines. 

How to Make leaf napkin rings:

Step 1. Ask your kid to draw leaves on the different paper and fabric scraps. 

Step 2. If your kid is still young, supervise while he or she cuts leaves from the fabric/paper. 

Step 3. Cut out a small hole in the leaves to tie them together and form a ring shape to put napkins in it. 

Idea #4. Lace Pumpkins

Lace pumpkin is a simple yet elegant Thanksgiving craft idea. You can put this Thanksgiving craft on a mantlepiece in your living room or dining table and brag about your kid’s creativity all night. 

Material Required: Small pumpkins, glue sticks, and different types of lace tapes. 

How to make lace pumpkins:

Step 1. Hunt down your Halloween decorations and look for plastic pumpkins or any type of other pumpkin decorations. 

Step 2. Using sophisticated lace, your kid can now easily turn scary pumpkins into elegant centerpieces by cutting out different shapes to decorate the pumpkin.

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Idea #5. Cupcake Liner Owls

Owls are wise and adorable creatures. And they are super easy to make with waste cupcake liners. So if you have a bunch of toddlers in your family, give them some cupcake liners and sketch pens to create owls while the elders can mingle without any disturbance. 

Material Required: Paper cupcake liners, colorful papers, googly eyes, leaf embellishments, glue, scissors, and markers. 

How to make cupcake liner owls: 

Step 1. Flat out cupcake liners to get inner circles. Be careful so that you don’t tear them.

Step 2. Help your kid to fold the liners inward from both sides, leaving a narrow gap in the center.

Step 3. Make a small fold to form the owl’s face. 

Step 4. Allow your kid to decorate the owl’s body with colorful papers, markers, leaf embellishments, and don’t forget to stick googly eyes with glue. 

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Idea #6. Painted Rocks

This is a classic Thanksgiving craft idea for kids. Almost every age group of kids can enjoy creating this craft. From finding the rocks to decorating them is sufficient to keep your kids busy till dinner time. 

Material Required: Rocks, watercolors, glitters, and glue. 

How to make painted rocks:

Step 1. Take your kids to a beach or countryside to pick some rocks before Thanksgiving. 

Step 2. On Thanksgiving day, create a craft station for your kids where they can paint and decorate rocks as they want. Don’t worry about them getting dirty – just let your kids have fun and get their creativity on!. 

Idea #7. Toilet Paper Turkey 

Little kids always want to help in the kitchen but parents can’t take that risk, especially on Thanksgiving! If your kid wants to help you stuff the turkey, give them empty toilet paper tubes and ask them to make their own turkey to decorate the dinner table.

Material Required: Toilet paper tube, glue, googly eyes, colorful cardstocks, and papers. 

How to make toilet paper turkey:

Step 1. Allow kids to create a turkey’s face with the brown paper, eyes, beak, and gobble. 

Step 2. Cut 5 feathers from different colors of paper and stick them on the back of the toilet paper tube with glue. 

Step 3. Also, stick the turkey face on the tube and cut a beak out of orange cardstock to complete the miniature turkey bird. 

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Idea #8. Quirky Leaf Friends

This is a perfect Thanksgiving craft to welcome the new harvest season. For this craft, you have to take your kids out on Thanksgiving morning, so they can pick dry leaves. Next, you can now help your kids make quirky leaf friends and put them in their books as bookmarks.

Material Required: Sketch pens and different sizes of leaves. 

How to make quirky & decorated leaves:

Step 1. Take your kids to the park or in your backyard to pick some dry leaves. 

Step 2. Give them colorful markers to give a face and smiley expressions to the leaves. Your kids can give these quirky leaves to guests attending your Thanksgiving dinner as a thank you token. 

Idea #9. Felt Garland

Kids can help you decorate for Thanksgiving with this easy craft. All you have to do is help your kids with hot glue and scissors, and the rest they can do independently. 

Material Required: Colourful papers, scissors, hot glue gun, scissors, a thread, and markers. 

How to make the felt garland: 

Step 1. If your kids are young to handle scissors, help them cut triangles from colorful felts. 

Step 2. Allow kids to decorate felts using colorful markers and glitters. 

Step 3. Pinch a dollop of glue on felts to attach the buttons to them. 

Step 4. Your kids can now link felts by passing a thread from buttonholes to form a garland to hang on your entryway. 

Idea #10. Yarn Pumpkin Craft 

If your kids are old enough to handle glue and yarn without making a mess, this could be a very nice Thanksgiving craft to decorate your home. 

Material Required: Balloons, orange yarn, hot glue, and scissors. 

How to make a yarn pumpkin: 

Step 1. Take a small balloon and blow air in it. 

Step 2. Cover orange yarn with glue and start draping it around the balloon to form zig-zag patterns. 

Step 3. Once the balloon is fully covered with yarn, leave it to dry. 

Step 4. Now, let’s move to the fun part! Help your kid to burst the balloon and gently remove it from inside the yarn ball. 

Step 5. Your kid can create multiple yarn balls and hang them in your living room to celebrate turkey day. 

Just pick Thanksgiving crafts to make the turkey day special!

Art is the best way to capture your kid’s interest and evoke holiday spirit among them. Thanksgiving is all about celebrating and sharing together.

With these Thanksgiving crafts, you can involve your kids more in the Thanksgiving preparations. These crafts can also help your entire family to bond on this special day. 

So, get your art supplies and start making unique Thanksgiving crafts with your children. SplashLearn wishes you and your family a very Happy Thanksgiving! 

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