Free Thanksgiving Crafts

Easy Craft Ideas for Kids

Our free Thanksgiving crafts are easy to make and can be used as Thanksgiving decorations or party favors for your Thanksgiving celebration!

We've got more Thanksgiving craft ideas for toddlers too!

Lovely Turkey Collages

Use the special template of a turkey's body and print it out onto card stock. (If the card stock is not colored already, have your child color the body.) Use the construction paper and trace your child's hand onto each sheet of paper.

Once the hands have been traced and cut, glue the handprints onto the turkey, leaving the fingers unstuck, to look like tail feathers. Finally, finish with feathers or other decorations.

Display all of the turkeys during the holiday. The turkeys make really cute decorations and it's a great way to show how much your child has grown over the years.

**TIP- Another idea that is fun for the kids to do when making a turkey is to use different colored leaves instead of handprints. The leaves make nice tail feathers and the more the better. Looking for pretty leaves together is a lot of fun and the turkeys are so cute when they are complete.

Cardboard Pilgrims

Save toilet paper or paper towel rolls for this craft.

What you’ll need-

Toilet rolls, papaer towel rolls
Black construction paper
White Construction Paper
Other Construction Paper for Skin, Buckles etc

If using a paper towel roll, cut in half or thirds. Wrap with black construction paper; this is the pilgrim’s base. Now cut additional features from colored paper, such as face, arms and hands, a white bib and a black pilgrim’s hat (don’t forget the buckle!). Finish with details drawn in marker or crayon.

Make a whole Pilgrim family to grace your table. You can even attach place cards to them and put next to table settings at your Thanksgiving dinner!

Unique Thanksgiving T-Shirts

Your Thanksgiving crafts can be created as Christmas presents from the kids for your other family members. It's great for older kids to have something to give all the family come that time of year.

What you’ll need-

Plain white t-shirts in the sizes of what ever family member the gift is for
Fabric paint (in fall colors)
Paper plates for the paint
Some type of cardboard to line inside the shirt, to keep the paint from seeping through to the other side.

Let your kids decide what to paint but generally we go with either a turkey or a fall colored tree.

You can either use stencils or just draw the outline of a tree for them and let them just paint the spots of colors for the leaves all over the top of the tree. It actually looks very pretty because of the combination of colors.

You can also let the child dip their hand in paint and make a turkey hand as well. It's very cute and you can remember how small their hands were. The family loved their gifts last year and the children loved that they loved it.

Unique Thanksgiving Tablecloth

What you’ll need-

Inexpensive tablecloth (white works best)
Fabric paint - fall colors
Leaves or other materials appropriate for Thanksgiving to use as stencils or stamps
Permanent markers

Lay the tablecloth out flat and allow the children to dip the stencils/stamps in the paint and create a border around the cloth. In the center of the cloth, let the children write what they are thankful for. If this is a family project, use the tablecloth each year and add a new reason to be thankful for and the year. It’s a great way to preserve memories, reflect, and observe growth in your children and yourself. A hand stamp adds to the growth concept as well.

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