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Home > Arts and Crafts Projects for Kids > Thanksgiving Crafts > Thanksgiving arts and crafts projects for preschoolers and toddlers
Sometimes it can be difficult to find crafts for preschoolers and toddlers to make during Thanksgiving. It is the best time to keep those little ones entertained when they have so much energy to burn in the first place.
Some fun crafts include Balloon Turkeys, Hand Print Turkeys (using construction paper or paper plates), Edible Turkeys (from cereals and candy), Fingerprint Fall Tree, Pilgrim Hats made from craft foam or construction paper, and Paper Bag Turkeys. Both toddlers and preschoolers should always be supervised by an adult when making any craft.
Thanksgiving Garlands Decorations - Here’s a beautiful Thanksgiving Fall leaves garland to decorate your home this Thanksgiving. What’s even better is that its a very meaningful craft to do , and will help you remember all that you’re thankful for. Its something your whole family can do together.
Thanksgiving Greeting on Pebbles & Stones Table Decoration - Have a free afternoon? Go out for a walk, pick up some pebbles them and use them to make a thanksgiving greeting. Its so easy that even pre- school kids can do it!! This crafts activitiy would make a great Thanksgiving table decoration or even centerpiece. Below you will find instructions for this Thanksgiving table decoration.
Thanksgiving Harvest Celebration Glass Jars - Celebrate harvest by displaying a colorful display of ingredients from your kitchen. It will be a great way to decorate your table this thanksgiving. You can be as creative as you’d like. Below you will find instructions for this Thanksgiving table decoration
Thanksgiving Popsicle Sticks Decorational Centerpiece or Place Setting Card - Popsicle sticks (aka crafts sticks or ice cream sticks) are easy to find. You can either save them up after eating popsicles or buy some from a craft store. Popsicle sticks are great for different crafts. Today we are going to share an idea for making a ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ Dinner Table Centerpiece or to use for each guest’s place setting card.
Thanksgiving Turkey Pencil Topper - Here's a great idea to celebrate thanksgiving at school- a turkey on the top of your pencil…a Turkey pencil topper craft for kids!! This craft is really easy to make and will surprise your teacher and your friends.
Turkey Plant Poke Garden Thanksgiving Crafts - Plant pokes are a great way to brighten up and decorate plants in your house and gardens in your backyard. Now that Thanksgiving is getting closer, how about we make a Thanksgiving Turkey Plant Poke to decorate your garden. This turkey plant poke is easy to make and lots of fun to look at. Easy directions for this crafts project follow below.
A
Bird On Your Hands - Draw a colorful peacock, parrot, or even a turkey for your
Thanksgiving table - all starting with your handprint. Fly with your
imagination!
Autumn
Oak Leaves & Acorn Turkey Crafts - This is a very simple craft for young children to introduce or
revisit a very special and beloved North American bird - the turkey.
It features two overlapping autumn oak leaves (ordinary
oak) to represent the turkey's feathers and tail the turkey's
head is an acorn, the oak's fruit and seed. The oak tree
is an important source of food for wild turkeys - acorns are one of
their favorite treats.
Bountiful
Harvest Wall Hangings - Your kids can fill this horn of plenty with all of their fall
favorites! Hang it from your front door to celebrate autumn's
bountiful harvest.
Champagne
Cork Turkeys - This turkey is happy that he is just a table decoration and not the
main course on Thanksgiving. It is an easy craft for kids to make and
other than the drying time needed for the paint and glue, a quick
project to make.
Clothes
Peg Turkey Crafts - This craft project is so fun and easy that you don’t even
need to stray far from your backyard to collect the needed materials.
Clothespin
Peoples - Friends and family smile with these little people that look just
like them! These make perfect decorations for your next family
gathering or as one-of-a-kindgifts.
Count
your Blessings - November is all about celebrating things you are thankful for, from special things like families to common things like a fresh new piece of paper to draw on! Here’s a creative way for children of all ages to build Thanksgiving artwork Moms will love to display for everyone to see!
Craft
Corn Harvest Napkin Rings - You can support this learning by inviting your child to help you
with Thanksgiving household preparations. Here’s a craft that
connects children to the harvest theme of the holiday, as well as to
the story of the feast shared by the first Pilgrims and the native
Americans who showed them how to plant their first corn. By
using patterns, it also sneaks in a little math practice, too!
Dining
Turkeys - Even turkeys deserve a Thanksgiving feast. Decide what your turkey
wants to dine on when you make this decorative turkey. Kids will have
fun crumbling and gluing on his brown feathers and adding his
brightly colored feathers to his back.
Easy
Turkey Plant Pokes - Instead of landing on the Thanksgiving dinner table, this turkey
found another way to be useful! This craft is very easy for even
small children to do because it only requires basic cutting and
gluing skills.
Fall
Chalkboard - Fall means back-to-school, apple picking and colorful fall leaves.
This fun fall craft combines all of these things into one cute
homemade fall decoration! Now you can create a great message board
that looks fantastic hanging on your front door!
Fall
Door Hangers - Welcome your family and friends to your home this autumn with our
great homemade fall door hanger craft. This craft does require a
little bit more patience than others so it's much better suited to an
older child, however, as with all of our crafts, with a little adult
prep work, even a toddler can help construct a fantastic finished
product.
Fall
Fingerprint Trees - We are big fans of handprint crafts. We love the way they
preserve how small our daughter's hand is right now and how we can do
the same craft year after year and watch the handprint grow.
This fall fingerprint tree is a fantastic craft to do with toddlers
or preschoolers.
Fall
Leaves Picture Frames - Make our fall leaf frame craft and help your children capture the
beauty of fall leaves. Paint unfinished wooden leaves in bold
fall colors and use some gold glitter to accent your frame.
This craft makes a great homemade fall decoration and an even better
way to display your fall photos.
Fingerprint
Fall Trees - This fun autumn themed tree really stands up on its own and is a
fantastic preschool crafts for fall. Kids will enjoy dipping their
fingers in the different colored paints and making the leaves with
their fingerprints. This simple craft is made with materials you most
likely already have on hand, and our printable template makes this
fall craft even easier to create. This toilet paper roll fall tree
makes a great homemade fall decoration as well! Enjoy!
Fingerprint
Indian Corn Crafts - Indian corn makes a great fall decoration, so we decided to make
our own! Use our printable corn template and your child's
fingerprints to make this great fall preschool craft with your
children. A few of these hung on a door or a window makes great
homemade fall decorations. This is a fantastic craft to do with even
very young children.
Gobble
Gobble Wobblers - Set out this Styrofoam Gobble Wobbler and he'll be the star of your
Thanksgiving decorations!
Gooney
Birds - Cluck, cluck, gobble, bobble. Give this goofy bobblehead gooney
bird a chance to tickle your funny bone.
Handprints
Turkey Crafts - These are two crafts in two size versions that can help introduce the
turkey. The smaller version is easier for younger children and
can be used for the same purpose. A set of large and
small version can be made to make a turkey family. It can
be assembled in various ways and the process can be made more
challenging and creative depending on the age of the children.
"Handy"
Thanksgiving Wreaths - Whether you’re visiting friends and relatives or staying home
this Thanksgiving, the holiday is a powerful time to stop and express
gratitude for thegifts around us. First grade social science
curriculum includes lessons on this holiday message, but there’s
no place like home to make it come alive.
Harvest
Gift Bag Clips - As Thanksgiving approaches, it’s a great time to talk with
your child about ways we show gratitude for the harvest season.
Many families bring harvestgifts to Thanksgiving celebrations, and
sometimes to neighbors as well. These community activities make
your teacher proud: community and holidays are each party of the core
social studies curriculum, right alongside science learning about the
life cycle of plants and trees.
I
Am Thankful Turkeys - Encourage the children to think about the good things they have
with this "I Am Thankful" turkey craft idea for
Thanksgiving. It makes a super classroom or group display project.
Indian
Corn Decorative Pins - Complete instructions to create this Indian Corn Pin from beads and
paper twist. Make one for each guest at your Thanksgiving
celebration.
Leaf
Napkin Rings - With some craft foam and artificial leaves, you can make leaf
napkin rings for your Thanksgiving dinner table.
Leaf
Window Suncatchers - Changing leaves falling from the trees during the autumn months
inspired this craft for kids. Children can create their own colorful
leaves out of paper and use them as decorations to brighten up any
window in their home. The best part is that these leaves will not dry
out.
Make
A Pilgrim Bonnets - Why not dress up for Thanksgiving in your own pilgrim bonnet! Easy
to make in any size, so that it fits your child - or the doll
collection!
Make
Handprint Turkeys - Gobble, gobble! Get your child into the Thanksgiving spirit by
showing him how to use his hand to stamp the most recognizable icon
of the holiday - the turkey. Talk about taking finger painting to
the next level! He will love getting his hands dirty as his sense of
touch is awoken by the cold, squishy paint. Watch his astonishment at
the ease by which he can create a collection of identical tiny
turkeys.
Native
American Wobbler - Share your Thanksgiving with this Native American wobbler from
Styrofoam Crafts.
Paint
Stick Scarecrow - This adorable scarecrow makes a great decoration for your kitchen,
garden, porch, or just about anywhere you want to "stick"
him! Use scraps of material and inexpensive felt to put this cutie
together.
Paper
Bag Scarecrow Craft - Create a scarecrow with your kids with no messy hay! This
happy paper bag scarecrow craft makes the perfect fall decoration.
He is easy to do and with some prep work is a great craft for even a
toddler to do!
Paper
Chain - Chain of Thanks - Paper chains are a great inexpensive way to decorate for a holiday
or party while providing children with a fun activity and our chain
of thanks gives them the opportunity to think about the blessings in
their life while having fun.
Paper
Cup Turkeys : Thanksgiving Crafts for Toddlers - Here's a quick and easy turkey craft that the kids will enjoy
making for Thanksgiving! Use them for your Thanksgiving table by
making one for each place setting and attaching small white cards to
the front with your guests’ names on them.
Paper
Scarecrows - Make a paper scarecrow for Thanksgiving. This scarecrow makes a
wonderful Thanksgiving decoration.
Paper
Strip Pumpkins - With just a few strips of paper and two gold brads and you can
create this autumn pumpkin within minutes. By using shorter lengths
and widths of paper, you can also create smaller versions of this
pumpkin. Kids will also enjoy making this project.
Peat
Pot Turkeys - Our Peat Pot Turkey is a unique, whimsical and inexpensive
Thanksgiving decoration.
Pilgrim
Bookmarks - This simple Pilgrim bookmark makes a great classroom activity for
school children and is fun to color.
Pilgrim
Collage Crafts - Make a Pilgrim collage for Thanksgiving. This Pilgrim makes a
wonderful Thanksgiving decoration.
Pinecone
and Feathers Turkey Craft - This is a very simple paper craft for young children to present a
very special bird, the turkey. It is also an opportunity to
address many other concepts, themes and skills.
Pine
Cone Turkey Crafts - This cute turkey is made from a pine cone, an acorn, and
construction paper. It makes a very nice Thanksgiving table
decoration.
Pinecone
Turkeys - The children can make a colorful pinecone turkey centerpiece for
the Thanksgiving dinner table using our free printable pattern,
natural materials and fun foam.
Plaster
of Paris Fall Leaves - Conserve the look of the fall with this craft project. Fill candy
molds with Plaster of Paris, let dry and then paint the leaves in the
color of your choice. You can combine the leaves with other fall
items such as chestnuts, acorns, pumpkins to make a pretty table
decoration or even use the leaves to decorate a fall wreath.
Polymer
Clay Pumpkins - With just one 56 gram orange block of Fimo® polymer modelling
clay and a small amount of green clay, you can create these small
pumpkins to compliment your home in autumn. Use them to decorate your
table at Thanksgiving or add these to a scarecrow decoration. The
pumpkins are so quick and easy to make and are hardened in the oven
within 30 minutes.
Pom-Pom
Crows - This crow is all decked up in his straw hat and is excited for the
upcoming fall harvest. He is already imagining how tasteful those
delicious vegetables will be. The fringe yarn used to create this
project is perfect for giving the crow a soft and fuzzy look.
Pumpkin
Picture Frames - This adorable pumpkin frame craft is the perfect way to display
your jack-o-lantern carving pictures or your photos of your visit to
the local pumpkin patch. Using simple materials and techniques,
this fall craft is a great one for even young children to do.
Pumpkin
Seed Pumpkin Fall Craft - This fun pumpkin craft is a definite kid favorite, especially in
the preschool age range. Our almost three year old daughter loved
this craft. Making a pumpkin out of painted pumpkin seeds is a
perfect fall craft for preschoolers, and it's even a great way to use
up some of the pumpkin seeds left over from carving night.
Rocking
Turkeys - This rocking turkey looks great on display and is fun to make for
Thanksgiving too!
Silk
Mum Turkey Pins - Use a brown silk mum to make this cute turkey craft for
Thanksgiving Day!
String
of Leaves - Make a string of leaves to decorate a room. These simple-to-make
strings make a great Fall or Thanksgiving decoration. You can drape
the strings across rooms, over windows and from the chandeliers.
Styrofoam
Thanksgiving Pilgrims - Wouldn't these Styrofoam pilgrims look wonderful in your home for
Thanksgiving?
Styrofoam
Thanksgiving Pilgrims - Wouldn't these Styrofoam pilgrims look wonderful in your home for
Thanksgiving?
Thankful
Tree - Children can make a beautiful tree of handprint leaves that
displays what the children are thankful for. This tree makes a great
Thanksgiving decoration or a nice bulletin board.
Thankful
Turkey Craft - This cute construction paper turkey lists what your child is thankful
for. It makes a very nice Thanksgiving decoration.
Thankful
Wreath of Leaves - You and your child can make a beautiful wreath of leaves that
displays what your child is thankful for. This wreath makes a great
autumn or Thanksgiving decoration.
Thanksgiving
Cornucopias - The cornucopia is a traditional Thanksgiving decoration, but why?
This Thanksgiving, make your own "horn of plenty" with your
child and teach him about the first Thanksgiving, the Fall harvest,
and why we eat so much on Turkey Day.
Thanksgiving
Handprint Turkeys - This adorable handprint turkey is one of our all-time favorite
Thanksgiving crafts. This is a great, easy craft for children of all
ages, and even very young children enjoy seeing their "hands"
on a gobbling turkey! We always make a turkey for each member of the
family and hang them on the door as a great Thanksgiving decoration.
They also make a greatgift for the grandparents. Enjoy!
Thanksgiving
Native American Headband Craft - This Thanksgiving craft is making a Native American headband out of
construction paper. It is a cool craft for kids of all ages. This
Thanksgiving craft is a simple and fun one that can be used in an
educational context along with our Pilgrim Hat craft.
Thanksgiving
Paper Plate Turkeys - This Thanksgiving paper plate turkey craft uses a small paper
plate, some construction paper and paint to make an adorable
decoration for the holiday. This turkey is simple enough for even
young children, but can be altered to keep the attention of an older
child by letting them add some fun accessories (how fun is a turkey
with a pink crown, or one with a baseball hat and bat!). Turn it into
a craft for the whole family and enjoy your Thanksgiving!
Thanksgiving
Pilgrim Hats - This is a great activity for kids of all ages. Making this paper
Thanksgiving pilgrim hat will get kids into the holiday spirit and
allow them to pretend to be a pilgrim. This Thanksgiving craft is a
simple and fun one that can be used in an educational context.
Thanksgiving
Place Cards - Place markers or place cards are a fun way to show guests where you
would like them to sit at the holiday dinner table. Place markers
also provide some festive decoration to the table. Kids will
love to get in the spirit of the holidays by making these for your
Thanksgiving Day celebration! Make one for each guest at your
Thanksgiving feast!
Thanksgiving
Styrofoam Turkey Craft - We love turkey crafts around our house at Thanksgiving, so we're
always looking for different materials to make them out of. This
Thanksgiving Styrofoam Turkey Craft is definitely unique and makes a
fantastic Thanksgiving decoration! The different textures of the
Styrofoam egg and the pipe cleaners are great for keeping your
children's attention. This is a great craft for older children, as
younger children don't usually have the patience and ability to deal
with the pipe cleaners.
Thanksgiving
Table Runners - Here’s a laminated table mat he can make for your centerpiece
with just a few ordinary materials. It’s fun, it’s
colorful, and guess what? It gives him valuable help with hand
strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.
Thanksgiving
Table Signs - Craft this simple but unique Thanksgiving decoration to display on
a desk, end table or shelf. Also makes a great teacher'sgift
or hostessgift. Easy kids craft.
Thanksgiving
Turkey Napkin Rings - Get ready for fall parties and Thanksgiving! Kids create turkey
napkin rings that add color to every autumn table.
Thanksgiving
Turkey Place Cards - Here's a fun way to get your youngster practicing the correct
use of capital letters, while at the same time welcoming guests to
your Thanksgiving dinner. Your first grader will be prouder
than a turkey – er, peacock – when he shows off his
colorful work!
Tissue
Box Thanksgiving Turkey - Looking for a cute craft project for Thanksgiving? Look no further
than this turkey, made from a tissue box!
Tissue
Paper Indian Corn - This tissue paper Indian corn craft is a fantastic fall craft for
preschoolers or toddlers, and a great fall decoration for your home
when they are finished. With simple steps, fun materials and
the opportunity to play with lots of glue, your kids are sure to
enjoy this craft.
Toilet
Paper Roll Turkey - This toilet paper roll turkey is a simple, but really cute
Thanksgiving Day craft. Kids will enjoy cutting out the different
color feathers of construction paper and putting the turkey together.
Toilet
Roll Turkey - Simple and cute - a quick and easy Thanksgiving craft for younger
kids!
Tom
the Thanksgiving Turkey - Tom is proudly showing off his spectrum of fall colored feathers
and will be a cute decoration for the Thanksgiving Day table. He is
so easy to make, you can get the kids involved with this project. For
place cards, just add a name to each turkey for each of your guests.
Tom
the Turkey Can - This versatile Turkey can be made simply as a magnet, as a wreath
or as "Tom the Turkey Can". "Tom the Turkey Can"
is great for your Thanksgiving table. He can hold the silver
wear for your guests, be filled with nuts or whatever your
imagination dreams up! Instructions include full size pattern.
Turkey
Chalkboard Fridgie Craft - This plump little feathered turkey chalkboard craft wants you to
"Eat Ham!" for Thanksgiving Day!
Turkey
Decoration - Great kids Thanksgiving project! This easy to craft Turkey makes a
unique Thanksgiving decoration and provides children with a fun
positive crafting experience.
Turkey
Name Tag or Pin - This easy fun foam craft can make either a cute turkey pin or a
name tag for place setting at the thanksgiving dinner table.
Turkey
on a Hat - Whimsical turkey decoration is easy to do with our free paper
pattern, lovely to hang on the door or wall for Thanksgiving
decorating!