Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts for Kindergarten-age Kids
Thanksgiving is a time for family get-togethers and strengthening the bonds between parents and children. A great way to achieve this is for parents and children to make Thanksgiving arts and crafts to decorate for Thanksgiving. The following are simple craft projects from Kidsdomain.com that even Kindergarten-age kids can do together with their parents.
Clip-on Turkeys
Here's a fun and relatively easy Thanksgiving craft project for little kids... Clip-on turkeys. You can clip them to curtains, or whatever!
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need
- Construction paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Yellow pipe cleaners
- Glue
- Wiggle eyes
How To Make It
- Make a turkey tail by tracing a child's hand, four fingers, no thumb (any color paper - we made all different colors).
- Then design a body shape to glue over top of this.
- Glue wiggle eyes, a wattle; attach colorful feathers on top of the 'fingers' on turkeys' backs; legs out of yellow pipe cleaners (tape those on the back, glue won't hold them on).
- When finished, glue a wooden clothespin crosswise on the back.
Pine Cone Turkey Craft
Almost all the supplies can be gathered on a nature walk for this Pine Cone Turkey.
Parental supervision is recommended.
This project is rated EASY to do.
What You Need
- Pine cone
- Acorn or elongated small nut
- 2 (10 MM) Wiggle eyes
- Low temp glue gun or tacky glue
- Red chenille stem
- Orange chenille stem
- Wire cutters
- Bird feathers
- Slice of dead tree branch or other piece of wood for base (about 1/2" thick and 3" across)
- Gold spray paint
How To Make It
- Lightly spray the pine cone with gold spray paint. Let dry.
- Cut the orange chenille into 2 (3") pieces.
- Fold the first orange chenille stem into half, twist about 1/4" from end and open up ends to make the feet.
- Repeat for second orange chenille stem.
- Stick the orange feet in the turkey a little less than 1/2 way from the largest end. Glue in place. (See photo)
- Glue turkey body (pine cone) with feet down to the piece of wood.
- Glue the acorn to the smallest end of the pine cone.
- Glue feathers in the pine cone closest to the largest end. (see photo for placement)
- Glue wiggle eyes on the head (acorn).
- Cut a tiny piece of red chenille stem to use as the waddle and glue below the eyes.
- Make extras and use them on your Thanksgiving table!
