Easy Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

If you want to make Thanksgiving crafts in the classroom or at home, to decorate the walls or the table, this collection of Thanksgiving crafts for kids is sure to give you some ideas.

Because the Pilgrims came to America on a boat, you might want to make a Mayflower craft. Crafts by Amanda has a cute Mayflower made out of a cereal box, and you can add things you’re thankful for to the sails or to the little cut out pilgrims in the boat. Or make a moving boat (with the help of a craft stick) with the printable from Kids Craft Room.

Of course you probably really want some turkey crafts, and there are so many fun ways to make them.

The mix and match printables from Messy Little Monster allow you to make different turkeys with different styles of feathers, noses, feet and more. You can even add your child’s face to the turkey. These would be super cute to make as place holders for the holiday table, or to decorate the classroom around Thanksgiving.

Twitchetts has a great DIY for a different kind of construction paper turkey made with loops for the feathers. You can also take a basic turkey shape and make feathers out of just about anything, from handprints (Crafts by Amanda) to buttons (Crafts by Ria). Or use a pine cone as the base of your turkey and decorate it with feathers, ribbon or whatever else you like. Get the instructions from Fireflies and Mud Pies.

You’ll definitely want to make some turkey headbands with paper feathers like these from Only Passionate Curiosity. Kids will have lots of fun decorating them and wearing them around the house or classroom.

And maybe my favorite is the little wobbly turkey printable from Hattifant. These come in two different sizes to print and color, and you’ll just have to click over there to see what makes them wobble. So clever!

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Thanksgiving Language Arts Printables

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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