Toddler Crafts for Thanksgiving...

STUFFED PAPER BAG TURKEYS

What You Need
Scrap Construction Paper
Newspaper
Glue
Crayons
Scissors

How To Make It
1. Stuff the paper bag with newspaper, leaving about 3 inches to fold shut. Try to fold it so both ends look the same then glue it shut.
2. Cut out feather shapes and glue onto bag.
3. Draw and cut out turkey head and neck; making two tabs where the base of the neck will be.
4. Fold one tab forward and one tab back and attach it to the bag.

HANDPRINT TURKEY

What You Need
printer (optional)

paper (construction paper or another heavier paper is best)
scissors
glue
googly eyes (optional)
crayons/markers and/or paint


How To Make It
Trace around child's hand at the bottom of the paper. This will be the Turkey's tail.
Colour or paint hand print.
Draw and cut 2 small circles for the eyes,
a triangle beak and
a "gobbler"
Cut a peanut shape out of brown paper for the body
Glue "peanut" body to the center of the handprint
Glue googly eyes and small circles for eyes

Glue on Beak and "Gobbler"

Print or Write Out poem above, below or around the Turkey

POEM:
This isn't just a turkey as you can plainly see.
I made it with my hand which is a part of me.
It comes with lots of love especially to say,
I hope you have a very, Happy Thanksgiving Day!


FALL PLACEMATS

What You Need:
2 Sheets of clear Con-Tact paper, placemat size
Scissors
Leaves
Waxed paper
Large book, Dictionary, or Encyclopedia

How To Make It
Gather some fall leaves.
Place each of the leaves between 2 pieces of waxed paper.
Place the leaves inside a large book to flatten them.
After the leaves are flattened, take them out of the book and remove the waxed paper. This may take a day to about a week.
Peel the back off of one of the sheets of clear Con-Tact paper.
Place sticky side up on your work area.
Arrange your leaves on the Con-Tact paper in any way desired.
Peel the backing off of the other sheet of Con-Tact paper and carefully place on top of the leaves.
You can trim around the edges or use decorative scissors to give it a different look.

HANDPRINT WREATH

What You Need
Coloured construction paper, paper bags or coloured paints (oranges, reds, browns for Fall or reds, greens and white for Christmas)
There are two ways to do this craft. One is to trace the child's hand onto paper and cut out the prints. The second is to make paint handprints on the paper and cut those out.

How To Make It
Make nine handprints (3 of each colour).
Cut out the prints and glue to form a wreath.
You can decorate the wreath further with pictures (like leaves, pumpkins or corn). These can be: stickers!
hand drawn artwork by the children,
pictures from colouring books, magazines .



HAND & FEET TURKEY

What You Need
Construction paper -- brown, tan, orange, red, yellow and white
Scissors
Glue
Wiggle eyes, optional

How To Make It
1. Trace the child's hands and feet -- two feet (with shoes on) on brown construction paper; two hands on tan construction paper; two hands on red construction paper; two hands on orange construction paper; and one hand on yellow construction paper.
2. Cut out all the pieces.
3. Put the two feet tracings together to make the turkey body and head, matching the heels together, and spreading the bottoms apart. Glue.
4. Cut two feet out of the orange scraps, and cut a diamond shape for the beak. Draw the eyes on white paper and cut them out, or use wiggle eyes. Make the wattle out of red construction paper. Glue them onto the body.
5. Glue the red, orange, and yellow construction paper hands behind the brown body to make the tail.
6. Position the two tan hands to either side to make the turkey's wings and glue them in place