No-sew turkey crafts

Practice shapes and colors while making this simple turkey with construction paper, scissors, markers, googly eyes, and glue:

Have fun with potato prints for this turkey! You'll also need construction paper, glue, scissors, paint, markers, a plate, and one potato.

Make a turkey puppet using scissors, a glove, felt, glue, googly eyes, and pom poms.

This play-doh turkey looks like a great way to keep young kids happy at a family Thanksgiving get-together. You'll need play-doh (Deanna has a recipe on her site), an orange foam sheet (to cut into beaks), googly eyes, orange pipe cleaners, feathers, and googly eyes.

And finally, some cute pet rock turkeys. You'll need some rocks painted brown, felt cut into feather, beak, and wattle shapes, glue, and googly eyes.

Thankful Hands

I originally intended to string these up as a garland (see previous post), but always-opinionated Emma disapproved. I think her idea of putting them up on the window is pretty cool.

I cut out six tracings of Emma's hand and six of Johnny's hand. Then Emma told me what to write on each hand. I was having a hard time explaining the terms thankful and grateful to her, so we settled on things she and Johnny like. Things Johnny liked went on Johnny's hands; those Emma liked went on her hands.

Here's what Emma came up with:

Johnny's handprints:

• Emma
• Dada
• Mama
• Milk
• Baby food
• Cuddles

Emma's handprints:

• Johnny
• Dada
• Mama
• Trees and the leaves that fall down
• Emma's food
• Mama's ring

Thanksgiving garlands

My kids are still a bit young for this activity, but it seems like a nice way to count your blessings Thanksgiving week. You could adapt it for younger children by having them draw or glue pictures of the things they are thankful for on the leaves. You could also use tracings of their hands instead of leaves.

Great Thanksgiving Craft

I love this World Wreath, I think it's the perfect Thanksgiving craft.

I'm always amazed by the original, young-child-friendly crafts that are posted on the No Time for Flash Cards blog.

Thanksgiving Countdown

I love this Thanksgiving Countdown turkey. I think it would be fun for a non-writing child to attach a picture of a person they love on each feather instead of pulling the feather out or writing a blessing on it. This could be done by creating a collage of pictures - maybe 2x2 inch squares and then printing it out, cutting the pictures, and gluing on one each day? I'll post a picture if I get it done!