Thanksgiving gives us a chance at a fabulous meal together.
This is when we celebrate the success of our helping hand activities (see our post on that here)
The children will have been busy helping us with our food drive, but still with enough energy for additional activities. With this in mind, we put their creative talents to use: they help us make our Thanksgiving placemats!
Moms love them as once the meal is done they have a memento of the family meal.
There only condition to these masterpieces is that a
You need to give each child a rectangular construction paper as their canvas. Keep at hand colors, crayons, markers, glue, glitter, child safe scissors and reusable scraps. You will love what they come up with.
For the younger ones in the group, we have our technique down:
1- Have them make a semicircle of hand prints
2- On the border of this semicircle, glue a big dot
3- Within the dot, glue a spoon shaped cut out you will have previously prepared
4- Glue or paint eyes and nose
Voila! You just made a
Before we sit at the table, the entire family gets to guess who mad each placemat. Once that is taken care off, we are ready to feast.
Do you have special crafts for your little ones to do on Thanksgiving?
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very good!
Them are so much fun to do!
Thanks for the idea did it w my babies and will surprise guests!
Super divertido y queda bien lindo. Estos proyectos son los que hacen de los días festivos, aún más especiales. Gracias por la idea!
Que lindo mantelito!, la verdad que solo se necesita imaginación y ganas para hacer lindas cosas..
Gracias por compartir!
Este tipo de decoración es la que más se disfruta y de hecho nunca se olvida.
Great and funny idea!
Great ideas! This is what holidays are about, enjoying them with our loved ones.
How fun! I love it! Great idea for the kiddos!
Beautiful mats! I bet my oldest son would love to work with me on this project. Thanks a lot!
I love crafts!!! Thanks for sharing!!!
Namaste!
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