Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids 2025

It’s Thanksgiving time! We have brought you some amazingly creative craft activities made with unique approaches and ideas.

These crafts are easy to make for anyone with basic crafting and trimming skills. You will have a good time with your kids, and your kids will definitely love making these crafts. By making these unique and creative Thanksgiving turkey crafts, kids will have a good amount of fun and will benefit for them to develop their creative thinking and grow their motor skills.

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It will also help them to see things meticulously. These Thanksgiving crafts can be used as a centrepiece for Thanksgiving dinner and will be a good piece of decoration for your Thanksgiving dinner table. So get ready, and let’s jump into our bucket of creative craft ideas to celebrate Thanksgiving on 27 November.

Thanksgiving 2025 Craft Ideas for Kids

Tell your children about Thanksgiving. Tell them that they can make crafts to thank anyone and make them happy. These crafts can be made of old materials or from new things. But you will find immense joy in making every craft.

Let your kids learn creativity as well as moral values. Let them work on the crafty things and help them to develop their skills.

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If you need help with this, we are here to help. Here, we are giving some easy ways to make Thanksgiving crafts that you can use as gifts, or they can act as centers for Thanksgiving.

Just have a look at the given ideas and choose what you want.

Creative Cupcake Paper Owl

Image Source/Tutorial: Artsy Craftsy Mom

To make this simple and beautiful owl, please follow the following steps with enthusiasm:-

Materials required: 

• Cupcake liners
• Colored papers
• Googly eyes
• Sketch pens
• Glue
• Scissor

Procedure:

1. Take the cupcake liners and fold them from both sides, leaving a space between them.
2. Less fold the upper portion and the lower one.
3. Now fold the top of the cupcake paper upside down. Stick it.
4. Take the eyes and stick them in their appropriate positions.
5. For the nose, take colored paper and cut out a triangle of it. Stick it in the middle.
6. Use your Sketch pens to draw the shades of an owl.
7. Now, make the branches for owls by using brown paper. Cut out the leaves also and stick them on the branches.
8. Paste your owls on branches just like they are sitting on them.

Your cupcake paper owl creativity is ready!

Wooden Spoon Scarecrow Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: The Best Ideas For Kids

Have you seen the scarecrows standing in the fields? If yes, then try it in your creativity. Use your wooden spoons to make it and have fun.

Materials required:

• Two wooden sticks
• Twine
• Burlap Ribbons
• Acrylic paint
• Felt sheets
• Glue gun
• Scissor

Procedure:

1. Take the yellow felt sheet and cut out the strips to make the hairs of the scarecrow.
2. Take the burlap ribbon and cut a small part of it to make the hat of the scarecrow.
3. Also, cut a small piece of it for the middle portion of the wooden spoon.
4. Now it’s time to paste them all.
5. First, glue the strips of the felt sheet at the top of a spoon then glue the hat upon it.
6. Tie the burlap ribbon, which you had cut previously, in the middle of the spoon by using twine.
7. Paste the googly eyes. Use the colored paper to cut the triangle for the nose and paste it.
8. Use a marker to draw the mouth.
9. Take a glass jar and put the scarecrows in it.

Enjoy!

Toilet Paper Roll Thanksgiving Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: The Best Ideas for Kids

Crafting is more enjoyable when we make crafts using used materials. So, use the toilet paper roll to do your creativity. Make turkey by using it. This is a Thanksgiving craft that you can make for your kids to learn them some morals.

Materials required:

• Toilet paper roll
• Brown paint
• PaintBrush
• Googly eyes
• Colored papers
• Black marker
• Glue
• Scissor

Procedure:

1. Paint the roll with brown paint.
2. Cut out a triangle from yellow paper and paste it on the roll to make its beak.
3. Cut the paws of Turkey by using the same paper and paste them on the lower portion of the roll.
4. Also, paste the googly eyes.
5. Use the colored papers to make the feathers of Turkey or you can use the template.
6. Paste these feathers at the back of the roll.
7. Write the things for which you are great fun.

Your turkey Thanksgiving craft is ready!

Pumpkin Jars Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: The 36th Avenue

I am sharing the procedure of making pumpkin jar crafts. You can use it as a gift and it is also perfect for Thanksgiving. So let’s start!

Materials required: 

• Acrylic paints
• Jars
• Colored papers
• Glue
• Scissor
• Goodies

Procedure:

1. First of all paint the jars with different colors of pumpkins using acrylic paints. You can also use spray paints.
2. Take the green colored paper and cut out the shapes of leaves from them. Fold them from the middle to make the middle vein.
3. Cut out the thin strips of the same paper and curl them using a pencil.
4. Glue the leaves on the wood peg and also the strips near it.
5. Fill them with the goodies that you prefer.

You are done with your craft! Enjoy!

Owl Hand Print

Image Source/Tutorial: The Best Ideas for Kids

Givin owl theme to your Thanksgiving craft can be the best idea. You can make an owl handprint craft and believe me you will enjoy it a lot during the making process. So start by here.

Materials required:

• Newspapers
• Paint colors
• Colored papers
• Black marker
• Feathers

Procedure:

1. Take the newspapers and roll them vertically to give them the shapes of branches and trunks.
2. Paint them with brown color.
3. Get your colored sheets and trace your hands on them. Cut them out.
4. Paste these hand traces on the branches.
5. Stick the feathers, one on the thumb and another one on a small finger.
6. Now, take the white paper and cut medium circles to make eyes. Draw 2 dots in them.
7. Cut a triangle for the beak.
8. Paste the eyes and beak on hand and trace accordingly.

Your owl handprint is ready!!

Corn Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Glued to My Crafts

Making corn crafts can be so enjoyable for kids. So let them make it on their own. Tell them the given procedure for help!

Materials required:

• Colored papers
• Glue
• Scissor
• Circular cereals

Procedure:

1. Print the corn template or make it on your own. For this cut 2 big leaf-like shapes and a different colored same shape. paste them accordingly.
2. Now glue the yellow sheet and lay the cereals on it.
3. Let them dry.

Here is your craft ready!

Turkey Cup Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Craft Create Cook 

This is a craft using your pudding cups. It is so simple and enjoyable. Let your kid make this by using his creativity. For help follow the given guidelines.

Materials required:

• Pudding cups
• Pipe cleaners
• Googly eyes
• Glue gun
• Scissor

Procedure:

1. Take the pipe cleaners of different colors and bend them by half. Twist them to give them the shape of feathers.
2. Cut out a triangle from the Orange sheet.
3. Now paste the eyes and that triangle for the nose on the pudding cup.
4. Take another pipe cleaner and fold it. Paste it on the triangle.
5. Paste the feathers at the top back of the pudding cup.

Handprint Card

Image Source/Tutorial: Frugal Fun for Boys

It is the best idea for making a Thanksgiving card. It is so simple and easy. Simply follow the given ways.

Materials required:

• Colored papers
• Paint Color
• Glue
• Scissor

Procedure:

1. Take a colored paper and fold it to make it a card.
2. Now take a white paper and cut out a big rough circle of it.
3. Now put your hand in paint color and print on that white circle. Let it dry.
4. Get the Orange sheet and cut a circle bigger than the white one.
5. Cut a stem shape of white paper to make the stem of the pumpkin
6. Now glue all the pieces. First, paste the Orange circle in the middle of the card then paste the printed hand to make the pumpkin.
7.  Also, stick the stem on the top of the pumpkin.
8. You can write a thanks message on this card.

Turkey Hat For Thanksgiving Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning

Kids like hats! You can make a hat using your crafty skills. If you don’t know the procedure, you are in right place! Just follow the given ways to make it.

Materials required:

• Colored papers
• Scissor
• Glue
• Black marker

Procedure:

1. Cut two wide strips of brown paper according to the size of the head of your kid and paste their ends.
2. Cut out the template for turkey and two circles for eyes. Paste the eyes.
3. Trace your hands on colored papers and cut them out.
4. Make the beak using colored paper.
5. Stick the handprints on the folded hat. On these handprints paste the turkey. Stick the beak to it.
6. Take another piece of colored paper and make a long thin hand. Fold it alternatively to make zig zag. Paste them on both sides of the hat.

Give this hat to your kid and make them happy!

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Turkey Craft

Image Source/Tutorial:  Fireflies + Mud Pies

Follow the given procedures to make the beautiful turkey craft. On any occasion, you can try this idea. For sure your kids will enjoy making this craft!

Materials required:

• Pinecones
• Ribbons
• Pom pom
• Twine
• Eyes
• Scissor
• Glue

Procedure:

1. Make the loops of ribbon. Shape the loops into an arc. These are the feathers.
2. Place the feathers into the pine cone.
3. Attach two wiggly eyes to pom-pom.
4. Cut a triangle from the Orange ribbon and stick it to the pom-pom.
5. Stick the head of Turkey to pine.
6. Make the loop from twine for turkeys gobbler. Attach it to pine.

You are done!

Colorful Turkey Cones

Image Source/Tutorial: Crafty Morning 

Crafts having turkey themes are the beautiful ones. It is one of them. If you try it simply follow the given ways. Make it and give it as a Thanksgiving craft and make others happy!

Materials required:

• Feathers
• Colored sheets
• Scissor
• Glue
• Black marker

Procedure:

1. Take brown paper and cut a circle of it. Roll and paste the ends to make a cone.
2. Take the feathers and glue them to the back of the cone.
3. Take white paper and make two small circles for the eyes. Color them using a black marker. Paste them on a cone.
4. Also cut a triangle for the beak and paste it.
5. Use a red ribbon to make the tongue.

Your beautiful turkey craft is ready!

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Cute Turkey Handprint Craft Idea For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: simpleeverydaymom.com

An amazing example of handprint craft is here. As we all know, kids always get fascinated with new art and crafts, especially made with handprints. They are, and we are lovers of handprint crafts. An amazing craft to make with kids. This will help them in developing their motor skills and creative outlook.

All you need to make this craft is cardstock or construction paper, glue, scissors, a template (which you will get on the above-mentioned website), and a pencil. So don’t wait any longer and start making this with your kid.

Easy Potato Print Turkey Craft Idea For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: ourkidthings.com

Here comes another creative idea for your Thanksgiving: a Potato print turkey. Made with the use of a potato, googly eyes, paint, marker, cardstock paper, glue and scissor. Very simple and easy to make for kids of any age. A must-fun craft for kids.

Thanksgiving Coffee Filter Turkey Craft For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: funmoneymom.com

A creative and colourful turkey craft is here. All you need is cardstock or construction paper, a coffee filter, paint, glue, and scissors. An easy craft idea for kids of any age. This is a good idea for kids for Thanksgiving. Materials are cheap, and it will also take very little time. This will be beneficial for them to recognise the colour schemes and have a basic understanding of colours.

Paper Bag Turkey Craft For Thanksgiving

Image Source/Tutorial: journeytosahm.com

Here is another super-easy Thanksgiving craft idea for kids. Materials like cardstock paper or construction paper, paper bags, glue, scissors, googly eyes, and are required. Kids of all ages can make this turkey craft with ease, with some guidance and assistance from elders. All you need are basic cutting skills to make this craft.

Handprint Turkey Craft Idea For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: madewithhappy.com

Handprint crafts are usually considered the easiest and most fun activity for kids, as they take less time and are simple to make. Kids of all ages can make it very easily with little guidance from parents or teachers. All you need to make this easy Thanksgiving turkey is just construction paper, googly eyes, and paint.

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Tissue Paper Turkey Craft For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: thekeeledeal.com

An amazing, easy-to-make Thanksgiving turkey craft for your kids. Easy and simple to make for all kids in kindergarten or preschool. Materials like cardstock paper or tissue paper, glue, and scissors are required. This craft will brush up your kid’s creative thinking and crafting skills.

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Pumpkin Apple Stamping Activity For Kids

Image Source/Tutorial: inthekidskitchen.com

Super easy art activity for kids. Pumpkin Apple stumping. A must-do art for kids to grow the creative aspect of their brain. This type of art helps them learn and polish their work. This stamping art is the best way to use your bruised vegetables or fruits. Such as in this case there is a use of a bruised apple half dipped in paint colours.

Easy Thanksgiving Pumpkin Craft For Kids

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Here comes another easy idea for a thanksgiving pumpkin Craft for your kids. You can use this thanksgiving pumpkin craft as a centrepiece for your thanksgiving dinner table. You can also use different colours or patterns of construction paper to make this and make your dinner table shine by simply decorating it with this. This is a very easy and less time taking craft for kids.

Easy And Simple Corn Craft For Toddlers

Image Source/Tutorial: simpleeverydaymom.com

If the previous one was Pumpkin and here comes another option for you if you are not a pumpkin. A cute and adorable corn craft for kids to decorate your thanksgiving dinner table. All you need to make this is glue, scissor, a marker and some construction papers. It is easy to make and kids have a good amount of fun while making this.

Falling Leaves Sensory Bottle For Thanksgiving

Image Source/Tutorial: thesoccermomblog.com

Looking so eye-pleasing isn’t it? A perfect thing to decorate your dinner table on the happy occasion of Thanksgiving. An amazing idea to decorate your home and which will add an extra flavour of calmness and creativity to your homely atmosphere. The leaves falling as snow will you and your kids a sense of calmness. For making this all you need is a masonry jar, glycerine, a small tree branch, glue, fall foil leaf and water. So don’t wait further and start making this amazing calmness tool with your kids at home.

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Pinecone Turkey Craft Idea For Thanksgiving

Image Source/Tutorial: diycandy.com

Here comes the most unique pinecones turkey craft for thanksgiving. A craft which can be made easily by anyone and even by kids with some guidance and assistance from parents or teachers. Kids will have a great amount of fun while participating in this activity. Materials like all-purpose flour, vegetable oil, water, pinecones, paintbrush, colourful feathers, googly eyes, scissors, paintbrush, glue, and a small piece of orange foam or paper. This will definitely make your dinner table more mesmerizing.

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Hanging Turkey

Image Source/Tutorial: Happiness Is Homemade

Turkeys are a crucial part of thanksgiving, and this endearing hanging turkey craft will keep your kids engaged this thanksgiving, later you can hang these in your house or outside to give it more thanksgiving vibes. The beautiful feathers used in this craft make it look exceptional and their googly eyes are adored by kids.

Turkey Napkin Rings Craft With Bottler Cap

Image Source/Tutorial: The Countrychic Cottage

Why not make something that is useful as well as cute, this bottle cap turkey napkins rings will help you in keeping the napkins in place and will also give your table an interesting look, these are made out of bottle caps hence while making these with kids you are also teaching them about reusing substances. If you are deciding to make these get ready to get praised by your guests.

Pretty Paper Turkey

Image Source/Tutorial: Agirlandagluegun

This turkey craft isn’t as difficult as it looks and kids of any age group can make it, this pretty turkey can take your thanksgiving party to a whole new level, and you can use it as a thanksgiving theme decor. This mesmerizing turkey craft will keep your kids engaged while you prepare that real turkey. Have fun with meals and pretty paper turkey.

Turkey Place Card Holder

Image Source/Tutorial: Heyletsmakestuff

Fall leaves are one of the lovely and pleasing decorations provided by nature, making this turkey place card holder with cloth pins and fall leaves is a wonderful craft to teach your little ones this thanksgiving, later you can write the names of guests and clamp them in cloth pins.

Toilet Paper Roll Turkey

Image Source/Tutorial: Thebestideasforkids

This is an amazing thanksgiving craft with used toilet paper rolls, you read it right with toilet paper rolls or you can even use paper towel rolls. You can write things you are grateful for on its feathers. This toilet paper roll turkey is an innovative way to teach your kids about the best out of waste and how they can use anything around them to turn that into art.

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Fall Leaves Turkey

Image Source/Tutorial: Easypeasyandfun

Grab some maple leaves of various colors and get ready to make our fall leaf turkey, it is easy to make and the supplies you need are almost free as these are provided by nature (fall leaves). This is a wonderful craft to make with kids, it will polish their cutting skills, will boost their innovative ideas, and will develop their imagination skills.

DIY Crayon Turkeys

Image Source/Tutorial: Paging Supermom

These unbelievably cute DIY crayon turkeys are the perfect table decor for Thanksgiving, these are surely a little bit tricky to make but if you have tools like a miter saw drill, and vice then making these is going to be a cakewalk for you. Kids will love making these and this one is pretty unique and different from other thanksgiving crafts, and you should give these a try.

Cute And Simple Turkey Gloves

Image Source/Tutorial: Dream a Little Bigger

Want to make something with which the kids can play while waiting for thanksgiving meals, then you landed at the right craft, these turkey gloves will keep kids busy for enough time, kids can use them as puppets and play, and you can add decorations of your choice to make these turkey gloves more appealing and alluring.

Easy To Make Spoon Scarecrows

Image Source/Tutorial: Thebestideasforkids

Scarecrows aren’t scary anymore, these endearing spoon scarecrows will make your table look amazing, you can customize them to look the way you want, and you can use spoons of different colors to make it look more attractive and colorful.

Thanksgiving Turkey Lantern

Image Source/Tutorial: Rhythms Of Play

Aren’t these Thanksgiving turkey leaf mason lanterns cute? I can bet these are one of the cutest Thanksgiving lanterns you must have seen. It is made up of mason jars and real fall leaves, and it looks stunning both lit and unlit. It will spread happiness and positivity among your guests and will be a beautiful decor for this Thanksgiving.

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Pumpkin Of Gratitude

Image Source/Tutorial: Withhopeinthedivinewill

Let’s teach the kids about gratitude and find out what they are grateful for. This Thanksgiving pumpkin is the perfect craft to teach kids something that will help them forever, and that is gratitude. On this cute little pumpkin, they can write things they are grateful for; you can make this craft every year with your kids and collect these and give them as a surprise when they grow up so they can understand how far they have come, how fun childhood was and how mature they have become, an amazing idea, right?

Paper Plate Turkey Hats

Image Source/Tutorial: Honey and Lime

Take a look at these cute, fun, and quirky paper plate turkey hats. These are perfect for a party. Kids will surely love making and wearing this turkey hat. These are colorful and beautiful, and if you have many paper plates at your house and you are not sure what to do with them, then you should give these a try.

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Funny And Little Turkey Craft With Toilet Roll

Image Source/Tutorial: Creative Me Inspired You

Little fun puppets made out of paper tubes are a cute craft to make this Thanksgiving. These can also be used to store spoons and as beautiful decor for your home. There is a little turkey and a few native Americans to make your day amazing.

Indian Corn Craft

Image Source/Tutorial: Fantastic Fun And Learning

A simple and fun craft to expand our learning, this Indian corn craft will make a cute and fun decoration for your Thanksgiving this year. These are super fun to paint, and kids will love them for sure. While making these, you can teach about how Native Americans helped pilgrims.

Little Stuffed Sock Turkey

Image Source/Tutorial: Christian Games And Crafts

Let’s make this super adorable stuffed sock turkey. This can be either used as a wonderful decoration, or you can gift these to your guests after the Thanksgiving meal. The beautiful feathers on it look gorgeous. Click on Christian games and crafts to get a detailed tutorial.

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Turkey Pudding Cups

Image Source/Tutorial: Craft Create Cook

These turkey pudding cupcakes are super easy to make, and you only need a few craft supplies to make them. If your kid does not like pumpkin pies, then these are a lifesaver for you. These are cute and colorful and would be perfect for Thanksgiving.

Corn Husk Flower Painting Crafts

Image Source/Tutorial:  hello wonderful

Corn husk flower painting is a beautiful craft to make. This cute headband can be worn by kids, and the flowers will make a stunning decoration. It requires very few materials, most of which you probably already have on hand. So, let’s grab our material and make these amazing crafts.

Hope you liked the crafts above and would try to make some this Thanksgiving. These crafts will make Thanksgiving even more interesting for your little ones and you will get amazing decor too. Spend some fun and quality time together with your kids, friends, and family, and enjoy the Thanksgiving meal. Check out more wonderful crafts from our website and give your feedback in the comments below. Visit us again.

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