I found 8 fun ways to get the little ones creating Thanksgiving crafts for kids that don’t involve turkeys! We love turkey crafts, don’t get me wrong, but we want to explore other aspects of the holiday too! While you are preparing your holiday, set the kids with few supplies you have on hand and let them make one of these easy crafts. My daughter enjoys crafting when I am in the kitchen. It is a great way to keep her busy while I finish the last touches of the meal. These 8 ideas for Thanksgiving Crafts are sure to be fun for my family, I hope they are for your family too!
Cute Non Turkey Thanksgiving Crafts For Kids
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1- Milk Carton Mayflower
I love that it requires few supplies. It is fairly easy to make and a great way to keep kids busy while you a preparing your Thanksgiving dinner. If you’re not into saving messy Popsicle sticks, you can grab a ton of crafting sticks (seriously, like 1,000!) for under $5 on Amazon on sale right now.
2- Thanksgiving Boat Craft
This Thanksgiving craft for kids is made with paper plates. I love the way the pain looks like real wood, don’t you?
3- Popsicle Stick Pilgrims
I am sure you have some popsicles in the freezer. Let the little one enjoy this treat and use the sticks for this easy Thanksgiving craft.
4- DIY Pilgrim Hat
This is the cutest hat I have ever seen. Dogs celebrate Thanksgiving with us too. They are part of the family. The kids will love crafting your pooch a little hat!
5-Tee Pee Craft
Your kids will love making fun little construction paper tee pees for their favorite small play figures. These can also double as party hats! Again, the supplies are super simple and inexpensive.
6-Scrappy Pumpkins
Thanksgiving and pumpkins go hand in hand. Make this decorative pumpkin with pieces of scrap paper and other elements you likely have around the house. Aren’t they gorgeous?
7- Native American Headband
This is another easy party hat you can make for Thanksgiving. It’s a great way to teach kids about the first Thanksgiving.
8- Indian Corn Craft
This is another idea that’s super inexpensive yet really beautiful! Have your kids make a bunch to hang on your mantle or decorate the table with. You could ask them to make different colors for each guest and use them as place cards. Just write the guest’s name on the back!
Those are great crafts! I love the pumpkin.
Native American headbands cute idea. thanks for sharing
Very nice arts and crafts ideas for kids. I love the corn and the boat. 🙂
Ah, all of it are cute~ and the kids wearing the Native American headbands are so cute 🙂
Very cute Idea! I’m so sure my niece and nephews would love it.
I love doing crafts. I may have to do some this weekend with my kids.
What a super fun post… I ended up saving this so that I can refer to it later with my daughter.
Thank you!
I have just recently started to do crafts with my two little guys. I am sure they would both like to make some boats for sure.
Thanks for sharing this! I love these crafts. They all seem to be reasonably priced to make. I can’t wait to do some of these with my goddaughter.
all of them look adorable – and would keep any kid busy for a while! 😀
I’m liking those Mayflower crafts a lot. I need to do this with my niece and nephew!
Love the tissue corn! Such cute ideas overall – love doing crafts like these with my kids!
Oh my goodness! What an adorable collection of fun ideas! I LOVE the scrappy pumpkins and the milk carton ships!
My kids would love ALL of these! Thanks for sharing!
Those are some great ideas. I want to make the pumpkins with my daughter.
Those boats are adorable! I am trying to focus on the history of the holiday a little more with my littles, and these would be a great way to have a conversation about our nation’s past.
Love these crafting ideas! We are always a house filled with children and scramble for new crafting ideas while the adults eat for 6 hours! Thank you for sharing.
Oh my these are cute. I love the pilgrim. I think I’ll pin him. 🙂
I like turkeys as much as the next gal, but I am so happy to see no turkeys here! There are so many other great things about Thanksgiving that can go into crafts other than turkeys.
These are so cute. They looks like they’re lots of fun to make. I love the Lincoln hat.
These are all cute ideas to keep the kids busy in preparation for Thanksgiving!
How cute that you were attempting to avoid turkeys and they end up drawing turkeys and made a turkey hand-print craft.
I like the scrappy pumpkins and the native american headbands! So adorable! These are all easy to do as well so kids won’t have a hard time.
I like the idea of The popsicle stick pilgrim it looks creative and easy to make for the kids.
And easy for us mom’s too, who aren’t overly crafty. ? I do love all of these.
For those little crafty hands, I would choose the native american headbands. The popsicle stick pilgrim would also be an easy one for them to make. Thanks for sharing!
I love this collection of crafts. My favorite would be the pumpkins. They look easy and cute.
I don’t have kids but I want to make the popsicle stick Pilgrims myself! All of these look so fun to make.
Native american headband is cute the girls would love this great idea for craft activities for thanksgiving.