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Easy Thanksgiving Crafts
Thanksgiving Day celebrations are an annual feature that includes offering prayers to God, feasting on Thanksgiving dinner and a host of other activities – indulging in making Thanksgiving crafts and decorating homes.
Thanksgiving crafts with all their colors and interesting shapes brighten the Thanksgiving Day celebrations. Though generally it is the children who seem to be more excited about Thanksgiving crafts, there is no rule that adults can’t indulge in it. After all, everyone likes to decorate their homes with colorful Thanksgiving Crafts.
Easy Thanksgiving Crafts - Some Popular Ones
Some of the popular Thanksgiving crafts that are easy to make are as under:
- Pine cone turkey craft
- Hands-and-Feet Turkey Craft
- Thankful Garland of Leaves
- Bouquet of Thanks
- Clip-On Turkey Craft
- Pumpkin Window Hangers
- Pilgrim Finger Puppets
- Paper Bag Scarecrow
- Felt Apples
- String of leaves
Pilgrim Finger Puppets
Keep kids entertained while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner this year by making these cute finger puppets. Kids can have a puppet show while they eagerly wait for the turkey to emerge from the oven.
Materials needed:
- Construction paper: white, brown, black and yellow
- 2 short or 1 long cardboard tube(s)
- Scissors
- Glue stick
- Peach and pink crayons
- Black marker
- Pattern
Directions:
- Color a 2” x 6” section of white construction paper with the peach crayon.
- Cut out section then cut in half. You should now have 2- 2” x 3” peach pieces.
- Glue the peach strips to the top of the 2 cardboard tubes. These will be the faces.
- Cover the remainder of the cardboard tubes with black (man) and brown (woman) construction paper, overlapping the peach face a little.
- Cut 2 collars from white construction paper using pattern.
- Glue to top of shirt, wrap around and glue in place.
- Cut woman’s hair from yellow construction paper using pattern.
- Cut man’s hair from brown construction paper, cut a strip about the width of the woman’s hair. Wrap around the back of the cardboard tubes, peach paper in the front, and trim if needed. Glue in place.
- Cut hat from black paper and bonnet from white using patterns.
- Cut a small strip of brown for the hatband, glue and trim. Cut small strips of white paper for the buckle. Glue to the hatband. Glue hat to man’s head and bonnet to woman’s head.
- Use pink crayon to add rosy cheeks.
- Use black marker to add eyes and smile.
- Insert fingers into bottom of tube and play with your puppets!
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