11/18/2014
Here are a few turkey-rific ways to keep the little ones busy at the table while you whip up your Thanksgiving feast!
1. Candy Corn on the Cob
While reading stories about that first Thanksgiving, kids can make the very food that had a starring role: corn! Cut the corncob shapes out of orange, yellow, and brown craft foam. Glue candy corn all over the fronts. Punch two holes in the top of each ear for a big green ribbon hanger. Make three to hang together on a door or on the back of each dining room chair.
2.Tommy the Turkey Centerpiece
Kids will love assembling a Tommy the Turkey to be the center of attention on the Thanksgiving table! It's a great craft project to do while watching the Thanksgiving parade. Here's how to do it: To make his head and body, cut a 3-inch and a 6-inch craft foam ball in half and paint them brown. Poke a toothpick halfway into the top of the body and stick the head on top. Cut big feathers out of red, orange, yellow, blue, and purple craft foam, then glue them together, alternating colors. Attach the tail feathers to the body with hot glue.
Next, decorate the feathers with shaped sequins. Stick toothpicks halfway into a mini hay bale and stick the body on top. Give your turkey big googly eyes and a craft foam bill and waddle. To make each leg, twist four gold pipe cleaners together and bend the ends into toes. Hot-glue the legs under the body and bend the knees. Make a sign out of construction paper, alphabet stickers, and a craft stick. Gobble gobble!
3.Tic Tac Turkey!
What is it about Tic Tac Toe that can occupy kids for hours? It's even more fun when they can make their own Thanksgiving-themed game out of a large sheet of craft foam. To make the game board, cut squares out of yellow and blue craft foam and glue them in the center of the mat in a grid. Make acorn and leaf game pieces out of green and brown craft foam. Glue purple strips of craft foam on either side of the grid to keep your pieces when they aren't in play. Spell out Tic Tac Toe at the top in foam stickers, then let the games begin!