Creative Thanksgiving Crafts and Activities for Kids

The following creative Thanksgiving crafts and activities give children a variety of ways to celebrate the season. Make colorful turkey crafts, create Thanksgiving decorations, or enjoy an activity that encourages children to think about their many blessings.

Thanksgiving Potholder Craft for Kids

Thanksgiving Potholder Caft for Children- Design Your Own Thanksgiving Potholder

What a fantastic opportunity to engage your children in the spirit of Thanksgiving! Encourage them to craft a Thanksgiving-themed potholder that will not only serve as a functional item during your celebration but also as a beautiful display piece. By using permanent fabric markers or Sharpie markers, their designs will stand the test of time.

These potholders can become treasured keepsakes that you’ll look forward to bringing out each year, allowing you to reminisce about past Thanksgivings and appreciate the joys of family. This year, why not start a heartwarming tradition of creating a new potholder together each Thanksgiving? It’s a wonderful way to strengthen family bonds while celebrating the holiday!

What you will need:

Design Your Own Customizable Pot Holders

Bold Tip Brilliant Color Fabric Marker Set

or Stained by Sharpie Brush Tip Fabric Markers

Pencils

How to Make the Thanksgiving Pot Holder Craft:

1. Decide what you would like to draw on the pot holder and draw the picture with a pencil.

2. When you have the picture the way you would like it to look, trace over it with permanent markers or fabric paint.

Craft Spoon Turkey Thanksgiving Art Idea

What you will need: Craft spoons, wiggly eyes, wooden shapes for the turkey's wattle and beak, red, brown, black, and white paint, and glue.

How to make:

1. Use the pattern provided to glue the craft spoons together to form the turkey's body. Cut the skinner part off of two craft sticks to form the turkeys wings.

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2. Glue on wiggly eyes.

3. Paint a teardrop shaped wooden piece red and glue it on to the turkey as shown.

4. Glue on a smaller teardrop shaped piece upside down to form the beak.

5. Glue onto smaller craft sticks on each side of the turkey's head and neck to form wings.

5. Paint your turkey.

Count Your Many Blessings Coloring and Activity Sheet

Count Your Many Blessing Squirrel and Acorn Coloring Sheet for Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is about so much more than just getting ready for a big feast or preparing for the lively chaos of nieces and nephews running around your home. It's really a time to count our blessings! To make the most of the excitement before the big dinner, why not have everyone get creative using this adorable squirrel activity sheet? Encourage them to color and then write down the delicious foods they're eager to eat and the wonderful people they're thankful to have in their lives on the acorns and then count them. It's a fun way to celebrate together!

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I used the squirrel color page that says count your many blessings and had my elementary children write a blessing in their life on each of the acorns. They had some incredible answers! Thanks for all the great ideas. Lisa

Thanksgiving Balloon Turkey

What you will need:

Round Balloon

Paper

Rubber Cement or Tape

How to make:

1. Print out the patterns and cut them out from construction paper.

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2. Cut the lines on the tail feather layout pattern by folding the pattern in half and cut two layers at once. Be careful not to cut the ends.

3. Show older children how to weave feathers into the turkey tail pattern. Glue or tape the tail feathers to a balloon.

4. Glue the wattle and beak to the body pattern. Draw on eyes with markers. Tape or glue the turkey's feet, neck and wings to the balloon.

Logan Gets Crafty! Thanksgiving Balloon Turkeys

Thanksgiving Sunday School Bible Lessons and Crafts on The Resource Room

The Resource Room is designed for Sunday School teachers and home school parents. All of the crafts on The Resource Room are biblically based . Most of the crafts go along with one of the Bible lessons found on The Resource Room. All the crafts were designed for preschool and elementary age children. All the crafts are original and inexpensive which are great for home school use and large groups such as Sunday school classes and vacation Bible school.