Thanksgiving this year may be a bit different this year. If it’s time to get crafty and active keep reading. Crafts and activities are a fun way to celebrate a holiday. Here are 53 crafts and activities to keep you busy this Thanksgiving.
Turkey Crafts
Turkey is iconic for Thanksgiving here in America. It’s one of my favorite crafts too. Not only are they colorful you can add a face. It might be a little hard to line up right for your littles but it’s a great way for them to get started on making faces.
Here are a few supplies you might need. Most of these require household craft supplies so probably have them already.
Amazon links (affiliate links) for googly eyes, construction paper, cardstock paper, colorful foam sheets, markers, dot markers, pipe cleaners, pony beads, feathers, scissors, toilet paper tubes, glue, coffee filters
Handprint Turkey Craft
This adorable handprint turkey craft from A Dab Of Glue Will Do just needs a few craft supplies and a set of little hands. It’s a perfect keepsake or nice decoration for Thanksgiving. You’ll need a toilet paper tube, brown paint, red paper, orange paper, yellow paper, eyeballs, a paintbrush, scissors, and glue.
A Colorful & Cute Turkey Handprint Craft For Kids
Handprint crafts are a beautiful way to keep those little hands tiny forever. Make this handprint turkey with the template available on Simple Everyday Mom. You’ll need the template, cardstock in different colors, googly eyes, glue, and a pencil.
Thanksgiving Hand Turkey Craft
This handprint shouldn’t cost you anything if you have: construction paper, scissors, a marker, pencil, and glue. Find it on Easy-Crafts-for-Kids. There are also two free coloring pages on the website. You’ll need to hand-draw a few of the parts and trace your child’s hands.
Footprint and Handprint Thanksgiving Turkey Craft
Another super cheap turkey craft is this hand and footprint one. Check it out on Katherine Roseman. You’ll need some cute little feet and hands, plain paper, paint, scissors, and glue.
Turkey Bookmark Corner DIY
Decorate your bookmark like a turkey for Red Ted Art. You’ll need origami paper or half a sheet of A4 paper, colorful paper, a black pen, scissors, and glue.
Thanksgiving Turkey Feathers Craft
This turkey on Two Pink Peonies uses feathers that can be colored. You’ll need the feather printable, colored paper, googly eyes, a toilet paper tube, glue, and scissors.
Super-Cute DIY Thanksgiving Turkey Craft Idea for Kids
For a 3D turkey, try this one from The Best Vinyl Cutters. You’ll need some yellow, red, and brown paper; googly eyes, feathers, tape, and glue.
Cricut Thanksgiving Turkey Craft
Make this easy turkey out of paper, glue, scissors, and googly eyes. Get the free printable pattern from The Inspiration Edit.
Easy Thanksgiving Craft for Kids: Turkey Handprint & Feathers
Make this Turkey as a keepsake. It’s made on a canvas. Get directions on Best Vinyl Cutters. You’ll need a canvas, paint, paintbrushes, feathers, googly eyes, and letter stamps or stickers.
Cardboard Turkey Craft for Preschoolers
If you have a lot of scrap craft stuff leftover try out this cardboard collage turkey. Check it out on Red Ted Art. You’ll need the printable, cardboard, googly eyes, red yarn, yellow or orange paper, glue, scissors, collage supplies, and paint.
Cardboard Thankful Turkey Craft
If you like the idea of a thankfulness tree check out this cute turkey craft. Another one from a dab of glue will do. You’ll need some cardboard, colorful cardstock paper, googly eyes, glue, scissors, and the template you can find on a dab of glue will do.
Coffee Filter Turkeys Thanksgiving Craft for Kids
These coffee filter turkeys are super easy to make. Check out the instructions on Dracy and Brain. You’ll need coffee filters; clothespins; red and yellow foam; googly eyes; glue; brown paint; yellow, orange, red, and brown markers; and a spray bottle of water. This is easy enough for a preschooler with a little help.
Tie-Dye Thanksgiving Turkey Craft for Preschoolers
The coffee filter-style turkey is super easy for little ones. This preschooler version from The Play-Based Mom uses coffee filters, markers, colored paper, googly eyes, a spray bottle with water, glue, and scissors. Cut out the paper and let your little one do this one all by themselves.
Popsicle Stick Turkey Craft
Check out this popsicle stick turkey on About A Mom. You’ll need popsicle sticks, short popsicle sticks, brown paint, orange pipe cleaner, colored paper, glue, googly eyes, and a paintbrush.
Pine Cone Turkey Craft for Kids Craft for Kids
Create this pinecone turkey from Mom Wife Busy Life. It’s a cute decoration you can add to your table or play with it. You’ll need pinecone, pom-poms, googly eyes, foam, glue, feathers, and scissors.
Egg Carton Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving
Create this cute little turkey candy holder from Red Ted Art. You’ll need an egg carton (cardboard preferably), colored paper, googly eyes, scissors, glue, and some candy corn. You can make it a thankfulness project by writing the things you’re thankful for on the turkey’s feathers.
Easy Painted Rock Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving
There’s a lot of fun in painting rocks. Try out this cute painted turkey from I Love Painted Rocks. You’ll need the perfect rock, some paint, a paintbrush, and some sealer.
Turkey Weaving
Make this mostly natural turkey from The Growing Creatives. Get outside and find some twigs. Once you have them you’ll need some yarn, twine, googly eyes, colored paper, scissors, and glue.
Glitter CD Turkey
Make this glittery turkey out of an old CD or DVD. It’s on Crafts by Amanda. You’ll also need colored paper, glitter, feathers, glue, and scissors. And maybe a vacuum.
3D Printable Turkey Craft
Make this 3D turkey from Red Ted Art for Thanksgiving. You can use it as a party hat, placeholder, or just for fun. You need the printable, something to color with, scissors, and glue.
Thanksgiving Activities
Whether your kids like to color or play games you should be able to find something to do here. There’s a ton of free printables to choose from. Grab a few or all of them below.
Thanksgiving Pilgrim Cootie Catcher Printable
Keep the good thought and gratitude going with this Thanksgiving cootie catcher from Red Ted Art. You’ll need the printable, some colored pencils, a marker, scissors, and glue. Write your thankfulness notes inside the cootie catcher.
Spread Kindness This Thanksgiving with these Gratitude Kindness Notes
We could all use a little kindness this year. Check out these gratitude notes on Coffee and Carpool. It’s a great note for friends or family. You’ll just need to print it out and add some gratitude.
Free Printable Thanksgiving Bingo
Get this cute Thanksgiving Bingo printable on The Artisan Life. You can get four free cards or buy up to 50 unique Bingo cards for Thanksgiving. They’re perfect for keeping the kids busy or for a family game after dinner.
Free Printable Thanksgiving Matching Game
Grab this free matching game for Thanksgiving on The Artisan Life. You’ll want cardstock and if you’d like the game to last longer you should laminate it. It’s the perfect game to keep your kids busy while you cook!
Turkey Crayon Cups with Thanksgiving Placemat Printable
If your kids love to color, a Thanksgiving placemat is an easy way to keep them busy when the adults are talking. Here’s a super cute one from About A Mom along with a turkey crayon cup craft that can decorate the table too.
Printable Thanksgiving Placemat
This placemat might be good for a little bit older kids. It has a word scramble, a maze, and some turkey jokes. Grab it on Bitz n Giggles.
Thanksgiving Dot Marker Activity
If your child is really young this might be the perfect simple turkey for them. This is a printable version available on Two Pink Peonies. All you’ll need is the printable, crayons, and dot markers.
Screen-Free Thanksgiving Activities for Kids
If you’ll be cooking for a long time it’s always a good idea to have some screen-free activities to do. Check out these ones on Printable Parents for some great Thanksgiving activities. Including a reading list, sensory bin idea, scavenger hunt, and learning activities.
Cute Thanksgiving Coloring Pages for Kids
Grab some free thanksgiving coloring pages on Dresses and Dinosaurs. They’re very simple pictures perfect for little ones and a great option for a dinner placemat to keep the kids busy.
Free Thanksgiving Dot Marker Printables (to keep your child busy at the dinner table)
Coloring pages can be tough for littles. If your child isn’t quite ready to color grab some dot pages from The Artisan Life. They’re free printables for fall available without an email.
Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt for Kids
Scavenger hunts are awesome for active kids. It gives them a focus for all of that energy. Get this free scavenger hunt on Lil Tigers in exchange for your email address and give them something to do while you’re trying to cook.
Teaching Gratitude with an Easy Thankful Tree
Teaching gratitude comes from the whole family. Check out this idea on Team Cartwright. Then add this to your holiday traditions. All it takes is a few paper leaves and a paper bag.
Family Tree Thanksgiving Craft Using Nature
Create your own family tree with leaves and twigs can be a great way to remind your kids to be grateful for family. Check out this family tree on The Growing Creatives. You’ll need some poster board, a marker, scissors, and glue and to go for a walk to pick up some leaves and twigs.
First Thanksgiving Project
If you’re a homeschooler you should definite do a First Thanksgiving project. You can make your own butter, create a few ships, make Indian corn, and much more.
Make Homemade Old Fashioned Butter With Kids
Looking for a fun STEM project for your Thanksgiving unit? Try this homemade butter project from Hess Un-Academy. You’ll just need heavy whipping cream, a jar with a lid, and a kid to shake it.
Thanksgiving Craft: Pony Bead Indian Corn
If you’re doing a First Thanksgiving study for your homeschooling kid this is a great easy craft. All these cute little Indian Corns take is a little patience. It’s a great hand-eye coordination and pattern project too. Check them out on Cutesy Crafts. You’ll need some pony beads and pipe cleaners.
How To Make Toilet Paper Roll Pilgrims
If you’re studying the first Thanksgiving (U.S.), it might be fun to make a pilgrim. Get directions on Easy-Crafts-For-Kids. You’ll need construction paper, glue, a toilet paper tube, scissors, and a marker.
Thanksgiving Pilgrim Creamer Bottle Kids Craft
Upcycle your old creamer bottles into these Pilgrims. You’ll need felt, googly eyes, glue, popsicle sticks, paper towel, black paint, and buttons. Check it out on Intelligent Domestications.
Floating Mayflower STEM Activity
Create a boat and experiment with Hess Un-Academy. You’re Mayflower could be made out of anything. You can create a paper or a milk carton or some sticks and twine. Try it out in the bathtub or in a stream or fountain.
How to Make Mayflower Cups to Celebrate Thanksgiving
Make a Mayflower cup for your Thanksgiving table. It’s on Coffee And Carpool. You’ll need brown cups, orange straws, a hole puncher, a white foam sheet, a brown or black sharpie, and scissors. Add some apple cider and enjoy.
Learning Games
Games can be a great way to practice skills. Get these Thanksgiving-themed games for fun and learning.
Turkey Feathers Color Matching Game
Preschool matching games are fun. This one is perfect for Thanksgiving month. Get this printable on Mom Wife Busy Life, you’ll also need colorful feathers, styrofoam balls, paper, tape, and scissors.
Turkey Initial Sounds
Practice letter sounds with these cute printable turkeys. Perfect for this month’s learning activity for homeschooling. Each feather has a word that starts with the letter. Print out each turkey and laminate them for longer use. Grab this learning activity in exchange for your email on a dab of glue will do.
Fall Crafts
If you’re all turkeyed out and hoping to do more fall crafts try these ones out.
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Cute Acorn Craft For Kids
Check out this adorable acorn craft for kids on Simple Everyday Mom. It’s got a face, hands, and feet so you can play with it too. You’ll need some colorful paper, pipe cleaners, glue, tape, scissors, and the free printable template.
Thanksgiving Paper Plate Wreath Craft
A paper plate wreath is one of the cheap crafts that are easy for any age. Check out this Thanksgiving paper plate craft for kids on Glitter on a Dime. This one calls for Thanksgiving-themed foam stickers, paint markers, ribbon, and a paper plate. You can grab these cut sticks on that website or grab your favorites from the dollar store.
Toque Pumpkins and Glove Turkeys, Oh My!
If you’re not using your hats and gloves yet try making this pumpkin and turkey from Sustain My Craft Habit. For the pumpkin, you’ll need a hat, something to stuff it with, a rubber band, and some brown yarn. Or for the turkey, you’ll need a glove, pinecone, orange paper, googly eyes, and glue. The best part is you can still use these winter essentials when you’re all done.
Fall Leaf Craft for Kids
Try out this unique fall leaf craft on Healthy Christian Home. You need some little hands, crayons, heavy-duty white paper, black acrylic paint, and a paintbrush. Make sure you check this one out on the website for instructions.
String Art Paper Plate Pumpkin Craft
Create a pumpkin out of a paper plate from Red Ted Art. You’ll also need yarn and twine, paper fasteners, paint, paintbrush, cardboard, scissors, glue, and a single hole punch.
Thanksgiving Food
Thanksgiving food is not just limited to turkey. You can make breakfast, snack, appetizer or dessert here.
Thanksgiving Turkey Shaped Eggs In A Basket
Make the perfect breakfast for Thanksgiving from Protecting Your Pennies. To create these turkey-shaped eggs in a basket, you’ll need sliced bread, eggs, bacon, cheese, and raisins.
Turkey Cheese Ball Thanksgiving Appetizer
If you enjoy appetizers, try out this cheese ball turkey from Eating Richly. It could be a nice option before dinner. Check out the recipe.
Thanksgiving Turkey Veggie Tray
Make a veggie tray that your kids love. Get the instructions on Eating Richly. You’ll need a tray, a small bowl, red pepper, sugar snap, baby carrots, cucumbers, cherry tomatoes, peppercorn, and dressing.
Pretzel Turkey Thanksgiving Treats
Create this sweet and salty treat from Cutesy Crafts. Get some pretzels, melting chocolate, candy corn, and butterscotch chips. And make a few of these cute turkeys.
Easy Turkey Cookies
Make these cute thanksgiving cookies from Seasoned Sprinkles. It’s super easy to make with some cookie dough, candy corn, Milano cookies, candy eyeballs, and chocolate and vanilla icing.
Pumpkin Rice Krispie Treats
Make these easy and yummy rice Krispie pumpkins from Eating Richly. It’s made from rice Krispie, marshmallows, butter, orange food dye, and green mikes ikes. A perfect treat for dessert for Thanksgiving.
Turkey Leg Treats
This turkey leg treat from Bitz N Giggles is a great sweet treat for your Thanksgiving table. You’ll need rice Krispies cereal, butter, marshmallows, bone-shaped cookies, melting candy vanilla, and some sprinkles.
Edible Apple Turkey Craft for Kids
Make these editable turkeys from Mom Wife Busy Life as a snack. You’ll need apples, grapes, raisins, prunes, marshmallows, chocolate chips, baby carrots, and toothpicks.
Thanksgiving Centerpieces
Decorate your table with these Thanksgiving Centerpieces. And start a new tradition.
How to Celebrate Thanksgiving with a Gratitude Pumpkin
Make a gratitude pumpkin as a centerpiece this Thanksgiving from Coffee And Carpool. It’s a great family tradition. You’ll need a pumpkin, a pen, and some gratitude. Get some free printable gratitude cards there too.
Thanksgiving Turkey Centerpiece Craft
Make this Thanksgiving Turkey as a Centerpiece it could be the perfect place to put your gratefulness notes. Get the directions on Katherine Rosman. You’ll need colored paper, a paper bag, scissors, markers, and glue.
Thanksgiving Activities and Crafts
Have fun with your Thanksgiving activities and crafts. You can decorate your house and your table. Let me know in the comments below what your favorite activity or craft.
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