Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids

Take a look at our Thanksgiving craft activities for some fun ideas for kids to get involved in.

Our Thanksgiving craft sheets include the following actvities:

• Thanksgiving boxes - create your own colorful Thanksgiving box using one of our nets
• Thanksgiving lanterns - make a festive Thanksgiving paper lantern with a choice of designs
• Turkey Leaf Tail Collage - create your own Thanksgiving turkey with a tail made out of leaves
• Fall leaf activities - make a leaf sun-catcher or color your own fall leaf;

We have created a couple of nets with a Thanksgiving theme.

There are several versions of each net, so you can either choose one which already has pictures to color or draw your own.

The nets are best printed out on thick paper so that you can make them into Thanksgiving boxes.

To make the Thanksgiving boxes, you need to work slowly carefully and have plenty of patience!

Follow these instructions to create your box:

1. Choose which box you want to make and print it out on thick paper.
2. Cut out the nets carefully and take your time to do a good job.
3. Pre-fold along all the fold lines before assembling. This will make assembling and sticking easier.
4. Put a small amount of glue on each tab and then join the two folded sides together carefully.
5. Finish making your box by sticking the sides together, remembering not to glue the lid of the box down!

These Thanksgiving lanterns use the same instructions as making a Thanksgiving box written above.

This activity involves making a turkey from the template provided along with some colorful fall leaves.

It is suitable for children of all ages, though some kids might struggle with the cutting out of the turkey.

One of the best things about this activity is that all kids regardless of skill can create a really successful turkey.

For this activity you will need some leaves, a pair of scissors, a piece of large (ideally fairly thick) paper to use as the background and some paper glue.

Each of the sheets comes with instructions to follow.

If you don't have the leaves available to make the Fall Leaf Turkey, or you just want some paper leaves to color in, then we have just the sheets for you.

There are several different versions of each template:

• a leaf color in sheet
• a leaf sun-catcher sheet with a black background
• a leaf symmetry sheet for you to draw the missing half of each leaf

There are also some fall leaf collection sheets with lots of different leaves on the same sheet.

We have written some instructions for making your own leaf suncatcher.

You can follow the instuctions below or use our printable instruction sheet instead.

How to Make a Fall Leaf Suncatcher

Instructions

1	Choose your leaf template and print it out onto some heavyweight paper or white card.
2	Fold the leaf carefully in half along the dotted line.
3	Cut carefully along the outline of the leaf and then open out your template when you are done.
4	Cut out the template along the outside square.
5	Cut a piece of tracing paper that will cover up the entire square.
6	Place your tracing paper on top of your leaf template so that you can see the part which needs coloring.
7	Decorate your tracing paper with fall colors using oil pastels, crayons or similar.
8	(Optional) If you want a more detailed leaf, put the tracing paper over the top of the leaf you have cut out and trace the leaf skeleton.
9	Stick your tracing paper to the back of your template.
10	Attach your template onto a window.

We have a range of different color by number sheets with a thanksgiving theme.

Each Thanksgiving picture is available in lots of different formats.

• color by number 0 to 9, 10 to 19 and 20 to 29
• addition facts within 10
• subtraction facts to 10
• addition and subtractions within 10

We have a range of puzzles with a Thanksgiving theme including:

• codebreakers
• picture puzzles
• arithmetic symbol puzzles

These worksheets are aimed at first graders and above.

We have a range of different games to help you develop your math skills including:

• Turkey Crossing - a Thanksgiving strategy game
• Journey to the New World - counting game
• Race to the New World - math fact games
• Thanksgiving Cover Up - math fact game

These worksheets are aimed at first graders and above.

The Math Salamanders hope you enjoy using these free printable Math worksheets and all our other Math games and resources.

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