This week we made thanksgiving crafts: decorating sugar cookies to look like turkeys (or just to look like whatever the kids wanted them to), and making thankful trees.
The thankful tree was something I made as a kid. I made the craft even more kid friendly though so my toddlers could be very involved.
Step 1) Make the "tree" with popsicle sticks. We glued them together with regular elmer's glue sticks. Hot glue guns would have worked better, but I was going for kid-friendly remember. So the kids had to use a lot of glue to get the wood to stick together, but it worked. We used a thicker wider popsicle stick for the trunk and colorful small popsicles sticks for the branches (I found the colored ones at the dollar store).
Step 2) Plant the trees in paper cups, using homemade playdough as the "potting soil" to get the trees to stand up.
Step 3) Have the kids decorate paper banners to wrap around the cups.
Step 4) Have an adult cut out leaf shapes.
Step 5) Help the kids think of things they are thankful for and write them on the leaves. Then stick the leaves to the tree. (glue or we used "scotch photo splits" that I have for scrapbooking, that way I could put them on the leaves and have paper on one side until the kids were ready to peel them off and stick them to the tree) The extra leaves we placed in the cup to fill out later as Thanksgiving approaches.
Have fun, hope you get a chance to be creative and enjoy some family activities this thanksgiving holiday.
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