Thanksgiving Decorations Kids Can Make
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Thanksgiving Decorations
Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday! What a spiritual renewal to take a day to reflect over the past year about just how good God has been to you and your family, to give you harvest and shelter, health and hope.
To get the most out of this joyous occasion, maybe it would be a good idea to make some Thanksgiving crafts with your children.
Because Thanksgiving in USA is later, in November, it often gets squeezed out by Halloween's spooky decorations and the lights and gala of Christmas. With the following craft ideas, your home can be decorated for this quieter but spiritually important celebration.
Turkeys are a natural choice for decorations. A familiar project at this time of year for a child is to trace around her/his hand and make the resulting drawing into a turkey. The thumb is the head and the fingers are the tail feathers all displayed.
While most of the turkeys that are raised for food are now the white domestic variety, the turkeys eaten by the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving were the wild brown ones. The tail feathers on a wild turkey are brown, but they are iridescent, catching light and appearing to be multi-colored. This is why children should color the tail feathers in bright colors.
The turkey's head has a wattle under the beak. This is a vertical flap of loose skin that is red colored. Remind your kids to draw this one in order to make the hand turkey look like a turkey. They should also add skinny legs and bird feet.
When done, the kids can cut out their turkeys and hang them on the wall. It's really cute to make a whole flock of these turkeys in the sizes of all the hands in the family. The little hand shapes are particularly sweet.
Another nice turkey decoration to make for Thanksgiving holiday crafts is a Turkey Door Decoration.
Get a brown construction paper and you or your kids make a body and head of a turkey. You can also draw it, then cut-out the shape.
After that create a large number of colored feather shapes from colored paper. Each family member writes something on a feather he or she is thankful for before attaching as part of the turkey's tail. Repeat until all the feathers are used, and hang the turkey on the front door to greet visitors with a message of gratitude.
Make a sign to accompany the turkey that says "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good!" or simply "Be thankful!" or "We're thankful for you!" or whatever you like.
Children also love making paper chains. To further decorate the house for Thanksgiving, let them make a paper chain in fall colors as one of their holiday crafts. Using 9 by 12 inch construction paper, cut the paper in half across the long side and cut the halves into one inch thick six inch long strips. Use a stapler to attach the ends of the strip into a circle. Loop the next strip into the circle and staple it.
Continue the process alternating colors of brown, red, yellow, and orange. When the chains are long, kids can wrap them along the ceiling or stair rail. If you don't make the door turkey, the children can write something they're thankful for on each strip of paper before adding it to the chain.
Thanksgiving is too nice a holiday to let the other more commercial holidays crowd it out. By making crafts to decorate your home for Thanksgiving, you can keep this day special, too. Your friends and the family, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc., will be impressed and pleased to see those Thanksgiving crafts the young ones have made to decorate the house and make it cheerful for their visit.
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