50+ Thanksgiving Craft for Kids for Creative Activities

Thanksgiving Craft for Kids: In honor of the holiday, we’re using Thanksgiving as an opportunity to slow down and allow kids to get creative turning humble materials into meaningful decor. Whether you have a classroom full of kids or just one at home, these Thanksgiving crafts for kids are low-mess and easy to make with little ones. They keep kids engaged, bolster imagination and prompt them to tap into that spirit of gratitude.

Thanksgiving Craft for Kids for Creative Activities

Here are more than 50 Thanksgiving crafts to keep your kids as busy as those adorable little pilgrims.

Easy Paper Crafts for Kids

The simplest way to inspire kids is with paper crafts. Many require only paper, glue, scissors and markers.

• Paper Plate Turkey: Children color feathers around the plate and adhere on googly eyes to create a turkey that looks always adorable.

• Handprint Turkey: Trace small hands to create a rainbow of feathers and fringe them behind a circle turkey body. Perfect keepsake for parents.

  

• Paper Feather Headband: Children cut and color paper feathers before gluing them onto a strip for a fun Thanksgiving headband.

• Tissue Paper Corn: Curl up yellow tissue paper balls and attach them to a corn-shaped cutout. A fun texture craft.

• Thankful Paper Strips Chain: Kids write something they are grateful for on each strip and link them into a long chain to display.

• Paper Bag Turkey Puppet: Transform a plain brown lunch bag into a turkey puppet with colored feathers, eyes and a beak.

• Accordion Fold Cornucopia: Create paper fruits and veggies in an accordion-style fold, then glue them into the outline of a cornucopia.

• Leaf Collage Art: Children glue real or paper leaves to create turkeys, trees or abstract fall scenes.

  

• Paper Pumpkin Craft: Create a round, 3D pumpkin with thick paper strips. Finish it off with a green paper stem.

• Footprint Turkey Craft: Trace the kids’ feet for the turkey body and add feathers of handprints in a keepsake craft.

Easy Kids Thanksgiving Table Décor

Kids love helping decorate. Such crafts add Thanksgiving character to your table.

• Pinecone Place Card Holders: Children slip small name cards into pinecones. It’s rustic, casual and beautiful on the table.

• Leaf Napkin Rings: Real or foam leaves tied with twine work as easy napkin rings that kids can make.

• Mini Clay Pumpkin Decorations: Children mold air-dry clay into small pumpkins, paint them and set them on tables as accents.

  

• Cork Turkey Centerpiece: Glue feathers onto corks and attach small beaks and eyes. Center them for a fun look.

• Thankful Tree Centerpiece: Kids write messages on paper leaves and hang them from a branch in a vase.

• Painted Mason Jar Candle Holders: Children will paint jars in autumn hues. Enhance lighting with LED tea lights for safe and glowing decoration.

• Decorative Corn Husk Vases: Decorate jars with colored paper strips, reminiscent of corn husks. Kids can pick the color palette!

• Pumpkin Gratitude Cards: Make small pumpkin-shaped cards that kids can write thank-yous on for guests.

• Salt Dough Leaf Ornaments: Cut leaf shapes from salt dough, bake and paint. Ideal for table setting or hanging as decorations.

• Nature-Inspired Table Runner: Children paste leaves, twigs and acorns on a long strip of construction paper to create a rustic runner.

Fun Turkey-Themed Crafts

Thanksgiving crafts for kids wouldn’t be the same without a LOT of turkey tom foolery.

• Cupcake Liner Turkey: Transform colored cupcake liners into feathers behind a paper turkey body.

• Toilet Roll Turkey: Use toilet paper rolls as turkey bodies, and add on feathers, eyes and a beak.

• Pom-Pom Turkey Craft: Glue small pom-poms to a circular base for a fluffy, colorful turkey.

• Coffee Filter Turkey: Children color coffee filters with markers and then spray water to get the look of watercolor turkey feathers.

• Felt Turkey Bookmark: Cut out a small turkey shape with layered feathers from felt. Great for little readers.

• Turkey Hat Craft: The kids put together a turkey face and feathers for some festive photos on a headband.

  

• Button Turkey Art: Adhere colorful buttons in a fan pattern around a paper turkey body for dimension.

• Popsicle Stick Turkey: Fan out painted popsticle sticks and place turkey face at the bottom.

• Spoon Turkey Craft: Have fun making silly turkey characters by adding colorful feathers and using markers to decorate wooden spoons.

• Turkey Wreath for Kids: Create a turkey wreath by attaching feathers or paper cutouts to a cardboard ring.

Nature Crafts for Thanksgiving

Leaves and acorns are everywhere in the fall, so these are the perfect crafts to do without spending a fortune.

• Leaf Turkey Craft: Place real leaves behind a small paper turkey body for wings.

• Acorn People: Hot-glue acorns together to create miniature people with painted faces and tiny leaf hats.

• Pinecone Turkey: Insert feathers into pinecone, glued them in place and glued on small paper turkey face for a cute 3D craft.

• Twig Frame Art: Children glue twigs together to create a frame, and then add fall artwork within.

• Rock Painting Pumpkins: Paint stones to look like pumpkins, turkeys or fall vegetables for fun garden décor.

• Nature Collage Placemats: Children lay out dried leaves, small twigs and petals on contact paper that will make laminated placemats.

• Pumpkin Seed Mosaic: Dry pumpkin seeds and color them and set out in fall patterns or turkey shapes.

• Leaf Rubbing Art: Children place leaves under paper, then rub over them with crayon to make leaf patterns appear.

• Acorn Necklace Craft: Paint acorns and string on yarn for a wearable fall necklace.

  

• Bark Art Panel: Glue pieces of bark onto a sheet of cardboard, and let the kids paint over them to make rustic art.

Creative Gratitude and Memory Crafts

Thanksgiving is all about gratitude. These crafts provide little ones a way to express that feeling in layman’s terms.

• Thankful Jar: Kids decorate a jar and fill it with messages of gratitude throughout November.

  

• Gratitude Wheel: Paper wheel that’s broken into sections on which kids list one thing they’re thankful for in each slice.

• Memory Leaf Garland: Children record family memories on paper leaves that they glue to a string.

• Thankful Placemats: Children sketch and write what they are grateful for on large sheets to create personalized placemats.

• Blessings Box Craft: Cover a small box where kids can keep positive notes or blessings for which they are grateful.

• Family Handprint Wreath: We all trace our hands, cut them out and layer them into a wreath which is quite meaningful.

• Gratitude Painting: Children paint a simple picture and inscribe a gratitude message on the bottom of the plate or its back.

• Thankful Turkey Craft: Looking at feathers one by one, she writes something the child is thankful for. Makes a great display.

• Thanksgiving Memory Book: Children make a tiny book of drawings, notes and photographs about their holiday.

• Gratitude Bookmark: Have children create bookmarks with grateful quotes or drawings that can be used when they do holiday reading.

• Thankful Sticker Chart: As kids think of things to appreciate during the week, they add a sticker.