Thanksgiving

[LisaLamb]

Be thankful that you're crafty!
      

[LisaLamb]

Hershey's® Kisses Flowers or Acorns
Use pink or red cellophane for roses. Browns and golds for acorns, or clear with the holiday kisses that are wrapped in colored foil.

Cut cellophane into 4-1/2 inch squares.
Hold two kisses with flat bottoms together. Place both in center of square. Bring all four corners of square together. Insert one end of a 6-inch piece of 18-gauge wire between layers of square. Stretching floral tape tightly, begin wrapping all edges of square to wire just under kisses, to bottom of wire, wrapping in silk leaves as desired.
http://pie.midco.net/grammalowe/thanksgiving.html#c02

[LisaLamb]

Tootsie Pop Turkey

Need: 1-inch brown pompom
small wiggle eyes
1-inch piece yellow chenille stem
two 4-inch pieces red chenille stems
two 4-inch pieces yellow or beige chenille stems
one 4-inch piece green chenille stem

Twist ends of each of the 4-inch pieces of chenille stems together to form 5 separate loops. (2 red, 2 yellow, 1 green).
Hot glue them to Tootsie pop, as in picture.
Glue pompom to top as shown, then glue on wiggle eyes.
Bend the yellow piece of stem into a ‘u' shape and glue it on for beak.
http://pie.midco.net/grammalowe/thanksgiving.html#c02

[a11ysmommy]

Thanksgiving Craft for Kids  - Hands and Feet Turkey Craft 
Your child's hands and feet will help make this colorful turkey decoration.

Young children may need help tracing their hands and feet.
When complete, they make cute table decorations at each place 
setting for Thanksgiving dinner or for your holiday parties. 
Parental supervision is recommended.

You'll Need
construction paper in brown, 
black, orange, red, yellow , white
scissors 
glue 
wiggle eyes, optional 
Find the supplies >>

Make the turkey tail feathers by tracing your child's hand 
on colored paper and cut out 6-8 times in a variety of colors.

For the turkey body, trace feet (shoes on) 
and cut from paper.

Glue the two feet together, spreading them 
slightly apart at the bottom.

Glue the "tail feathers" to construction paper overlapping them, to take on the appearance of feathers. 
 
Glue the "body" on top. Add a few more hands if you want.
Attach wiggle eyes. Cut and glue or draw paper beak,
wattle and feet.

[pinkygal]

Those are great ideas!  I might make the tootsie pop turkies for my daughter's preschool class.

[lukesmom06]

I love the kiss flowers. I will be making some of those.

[bellasmom607]

I love the hand turkey idea. Any christmas ideas like that?

[NicknJonsMom]

Quoting bellasmom607:

I love the hand turkey idea. Any christmas ideas like that?

Cut out several hands and place it in a circle to look like a wreath. 

[LisaLamb]

Trace and cut out one foot shape of light brown felt/foam and two hand shapes of dark brown. Attach hands to wider part of foot(think antlers). Use red pom-pom for nose and you have a cute Rodolph Keepsake. You could trace and attach cardboard backing for sturdiness.

                                      

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[SmartyCrafts]

Here some ideas from Smarty Crafts.  This is my company that offers an "arts & crafts kit of the month" for 3-6 year olds b/c the activities have an educational component based on kindergarten standards.  Hope this inspires other ideas for you.  Check out www.smartycrafts.com if you want to learn more about our kits.

 

[angie582]

  I am so gonna do the hersheys kiss flowers