Thanksgiving is an all-American feast day that anyone can celebrate. Since feasts and parties demand decorations, parents are always looking for fun thanksgiving arts and crafts ideas for kids. Kids love to be included in plans and preparations, and a simple decorative art and craft that they can display with pride will make them very much a part of the celebration. For a simpler craft, print out copies of a turkey outline. They can add feathers in several ways: thumbprints in water colors, glue real feathers on it, cut out feather shapes from colored construction paper and glue on crumbled fall leaves or even just color it.

Here are some fun thanksgiving arts and crafts ideas for kids. Enjoy and try them at home and share us your experience and how it went in the comments section below.

• Popcorn
• Colored paper
• Glue
• Yarn, ribbon, crayons, etc. to decorate around the popcorn

How to make Thanksgiving popcorn art:

Pop some popcorn in the microwave oven. Involve the kids while popping in enjoying the aroma and popping sound and discuss about how they like eating all that popcorn.

Hand out a piece of colored paper to every kid. Ask them to glue the popcorn on the paper and design anything they like. While kids are busy doing the design job, encourage them to eat as much popcorn they want to to make it more fun. Encourage the kids to use crayons, yarn, stickers, etc. to complete their design or art. Nice thanksgiving arts and crafts idea for kids.

Balloons are always a fun and favorite idea for kids and any craft idea involving balloons will get kids excited easily. Here is an interesting Thanksgiving crafts idea to make Turkey balloon.

Arts and crafts materials for kids

• 2 round balloons and an long balloon
• Cardboard
• Tape
• Acrylic paint and brushes
• Scissors

How to make fun Thanksgiving turkey balloon

1. Inflate one of the round balloons and tie the end. This will be the balloon turkey's body.

2. Inflate the long balloon about halfway so that there's an uninflated nose at one end. This will be the head of the turkey. Tie an uninflated round balloon to the nose.

3. Attach the ends of the body and the head together by wrapping a rubber band around them.

4. Cut two small pieces of cardboard (for the feet) and attach them to the bottom of the body of the turkey balloon with tape.

5. Let your kid show his or her creativity by painting on the face and feathers of the balloon turkey.

Make a bunch of turkey balloons and make them fly.

This is another simple and interesting Thanksgiving arts and crafts ideas for kids.

Arts and crafts materials for kids:

• Construction paper -- multiple colors, brown, yellow, red, etc.
• Glue
• Scissors

How to make thanksgiving hand and feet turkey art:

1. Trace the kid's hands and feet:

Two feet on brown construction paper; two hands on tan construction paper; two hands on red construction paper; two hands on orange construction paper; and one hand on yellow construction paper.

2. Cut out all the pieces from the construction papers.

3. The feet pieces can be made into the body and head of the turkey. Put the two feet tracings together to make the turkey body and head, matching the heels together.

4. Cut two feet out of the orange scraps, and cut a diamond shape for the beak. Draw the eyes on white paper and cut them out. Make the wattle out of red construction paper. Glue them onto the body.

5. Glue the red, orange, and yellow construction paper hands behind the brown body to make the tail.

6. Position the two tan hands to either side to make the turkey's wings and glue them in place.

There you go. Kids will love what they see when it is done.

• Sugar Cubes
• Heavy cardboard or paper places
• Glue
• Cardboard
• Paint, cotton batten, other decorations

How to make fun thanksgiving sugar cube art:

Give each child a piece of heavy cardboard or paper plate to glue their artwork on. Place sugar cubes on the table. Have the children glue the cubes to together to make a winter scene such as igloos, winter forts, winter houses, etc.

To make the project more fun, let the kids glue cotton batten on their cardboard to look like snow and sprinkle with small sparkles, or allow the children to pain their sugar cubes lightly. Feel free to add other decorations to make the winter scene complete.

Arts and crafts materials for kids:

• Paper
• Fall Leaves
• Crayons, Colored Pencils, markers

How to make thanksgiving leaf thank you card:

1. Fold your paper in half.

2. Fold your paper in half again.

3. Put your leaf inside the paper on what will be the front of your card.

4. Rub your crayon over the leaf to create your picture.

5. Using colored pencils, markers, etc, decorate your card and write your greeting.

6. Enjoy your fun thanksgiving leaf thank you card.