Thanksgiving Crafts
The Thanksgiving holiday is always enhanced by the creativity of a well-designed Thanksgiving craft. Creations can be elaborate, gorgeous Thanksgiving centerpieces or simple, paper holiday creations made by the kids. This page offers some great links to help with the design and creation of terrific Thanksgiving-themed crafts to decorate home and hearth for the holidays.
Fast Facts
- In the United States, Thanksgiving is traditionally celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November
- Date for Thanksgiving 2008: November 271
- Thanksgiving crafts often incorporate traditional images from the holiday, including turkeys, pilgrims and Native Americans
- Thanksgiving or harvest wreaths can be created using pinecones, grapevine, dried fruit, ribbon and a glue gun
- Pinecones can also be used to create whimsical turkeys to display around the home
- Pinecone turkeys can serve a place holders at a festive holiday table2
- Gourds, miniature pumpkins and squashes can be glued together to form a colorful and unique decoration for virtually any room in the home3
- Construction paper turkeys are a great way to get the kids involved in helping to decorate for festivities
- Make sure children creating crafts with scissors are closely supervised
Keep the kids busy and productive with fun decorations, easy crafts, and cute coloring pages
Don't forget to decorate your computer with Thanksgiving wallpaper and clip art
Make this year's Thanksgiving even more special with poems, prayers and sayings just for the holiday
How much turkey is eaten on Thanksgiving? Find out that and more facts about the holiday here
What does Thanksgiving look like? Check out these graphics and pictures
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