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Thanksgiving Craft - Ideas Abound!
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday! What a spiritual renewal to take
a day to reflect over the past year about just how good God has been
to you and your family, to give you harvest and shelter, health and
hope. To get the most out of this joyous occasion, make some holiday
crafts with your children. These days, Thanksgiving often gets
squeezed out by Hallowe'en's spooky decorations and the lights and
gala of Christmas. With the following holiday crafts, your home can be
decorated for this quieter but important celebration.
Turkeys
are a natural choice for decorations. A familiar Thanksgiving
craft for kids at this time of year is for a child to trace
around her hand and make the resulting drawing into a turkey.
The thumb is the head and the fingers are the tail feathers
all displayed. While many of the turkeys that are raised for
food are now the domestic white variety, the turkeys eaten by
the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving were the wild brown ones.
The tail feathers on a wild turkey are brown, but they are iridescent.
catching light and appearing to be multi-colored. This is why
children color the tail feathers in bright colors.
The turkey's head has a wattle under the beak. This is a vertical
flap of loose skin that is red colored. Be sure to draw this
in order to make the hand turkey look like a turkey. Add skinny
legs and bird feet. When done, the children can cut out the
turkeys and hang them on the wall. It's really cute to make
a whole flock of these turkeys in the sizes of all the hands
in the family. The little hand shapes are particularly sweet.
Another nice turkey decoration to make when making a Thanksgiving
craft is a turkey door decoration. Make a brown construction
paper body and head of a turkey. Now make a large number of
colored feather shapes. Each family member writes on a feather
something he or she is thankful for before attaching as part
of the turkey's tail. Repeat until all the feathers are used,
and hang the turkey on the front door to greet visitors with
a message of gratitude. Make a sign to accompany the turkey
that says "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good!"
or simply "Be thankful!" or "We're thankful for
you!" or whatever you like.
Children love making construction paper chains - you can turn
this into a Thanksgiving craft for kids. To further decorate
the house for Thanksgiving, let them make a paper chain in fall
colors as one of their holiday crafts. Using 9 by 12 inch construction
paper, cut the paper in half across the long side and cut the
halves into one inch thick six inch long strips. Use a stapler
to attach the ends of the strip into a circle. Loop the next
strip into the circle and staple it. Continue the process alternating
colors of brown, red, yellow, and orange. When the chains are
long, you can drap them along the ceiling or stair rail. If
you don't make the door turkey, the children can write something
they're thankful for on each strip of paper before adding it
to the chain.
Thanksgiving is too nice a holiday to let the other more commercial
holidays crowd it out. By making holiday crafts to decorate
the home for Thanksgiving, you can keep this day special, too.
The extended family, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc., will
be pleased to see the holiday crafts the young ones have made
to decorate the house and make it cheerful for their visit.
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