10 Fun Thanksgiving Crafts to Keep Kids Busy and Creative

These crafts use paper, paint, and a few things from the kitchen. Each one can stop at 'good enough.'

Ideas to try

• Hand turkey: trace a hand, paint the palm, and add a paper beak.
• Thankful tree: a branch in a jar and paper leaves with one word each.
• Pinecone place marker with a paper name flag.
• Paper-plate wreath with torn tissue in fall colours.
• Corn-kernel mosaic glued inside a drawn pumpkin. Use dried kernels.
• Gratitude chain: one paper loop a day until the holiday.
• Leaf rubbing placemat covered with clear contact paper.
• Pumpkin stamping with a cut potato or apple if the pumpkin is for dinner.
• Paper feather headband.
• A thank-you card for the person who is cooking.

Want the mess to stay at the studio? Open Studio in Milton is a drop-in hour for this kind of making. Weekend sessions are on the events page.