Thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Ideas
Thanksgiving is a time for relatives to get together, celebrate family, and eat lots of delicious food! From eating turkey, making mashed potatoes and gravy, and baking sweet pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving is a holiday known for it extravagent feasts. Just like any other holiday, Americans love to decorate their homes for the occasion! Traditional fall items to objects that reflect Thanksgiving (turkey, pumpkins) can be found everywhere in ones home. Many people buy decorations for their home, but it is just as easy (and more fun!) to make them at home. Want to turn your home into a Thanksgiving-themes spaced? You are in luck!
To help you get in the spirit of the Thanksgiving season, here are some easy and fun crafts! Feel free to give them as gifts to friends, decorate your room, or use them to create your own Thanksgiving holiday traditions!
Bring the season in your home! Light up mason jar decorations
In recent years, mason jars have increased in popularity. We often see people using them as pen stands and others using them as cups for smoothies and drinks. Did you know that they also make great Thanksgiving themed decorations? This very simple craft uses leaves from your own backyard to bring the feeling of the falling leaves of autumn into your own home. Use can place these jars anywhere in your home too! They look great as a centerpiece on the dining table, on the kitchen counter, in your room...anywhere!
Tip: You don’t have to use mason jars. Any clear jar should work perfectly fine!
Tip #2: You also don’t have to use Mod Podge. A good alternative is white glue (liquid works best for this).
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Glittery Fall Garland
Garlands are a great way to decorate doorways, table ends, bare walls, and everything else in between! These garlands are even better because they are beautifully sparkly and add a pop of color and happiness to every room. This very simple craft also uses leaves from outside, so collecting the materials for this project is super easy. So, if you are prepared to bring the Thanksgiving season into your home (along with sparkle and pizazz), follow the instructions below!
Tip: Don’t like the glitter color suggested? No problem! Use any color you like!
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Grateful For Wreath
Thanksgiving is a time about reflecting on the past year and spending time with people you love - your family and your friends - surrounded by lots of delicious food. Thanksgiving is also a time to give thanks for everything and everyone that your are grateful for. This can be anything from your teachers to your siblings to your friends to your phone!
Now, with this craft, your can commemorate your year in a meaningful way. This wreath adds a personal touch to your home and is great to hang anywhere you like! Hang it on your kitchen wall as you cook Thanksgiving dinner! Or hang it on your front door to tell everyone who visits that your are very thankful for having them in your life!
Tip: You do not have to use a wire wreath frame and this website suggests. Any thin, circular frame should work perfectly, as long as you are able to clip on clothespins to it!
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DIY Thanksgiving Pie Boxes
One staple of every American Thanksgiving dinner is pumpkin pie! Pumpkins are a seasonal vegetable that only grow in the fall. Likewise, you can find pumpkins lining peoples doorsteps during Halloween and being baked into their pies during Thanksgiving. In fact, pumpkin pie is so popular in the United States that you can even buy pumpkin pie filling in cans! (It might not be very tasty, though!). Americans also love pumpkin pie so much that October 12th is National Pumpkin Pie Day!
So, with this much love for pumpkin pies, there must be a good way to serve it to your guests. This DIY pie box does just that! These simple pie boxes hold a single slice of pie that you can either serve to your guests in or can send home with them. This simple craft comes with a template that you can cut out and trace over your favorite color paper.
Tip #1: The turkey design on the boxes is just a suggestion, you do not need to copy that style - customize these boxes however you like!
Tip #2: You do not have to put just pumpkin pie in these boxes. You can choose whichever pie you like! Some like eating apple pie or pecan pie on Thanksgiving. Cake or other pastries also go great in these boxes
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Beautiful Apple Candles
One thing about the Thanksgiving season that is often overlooked is the fact that apples are a fall fruit! (Remember the apple pie?). Thanksgiving season and fall is a popular time to go apple picking in orchards and make candied apples. But did you know that apples also make the perfect table decorations for a wonderful Thanksgiving feast? It’s true! This simple craft creates beautiful candle stands out of apples that will leave your dinner guests bewildered but in awe. The best part of this craft is that you can eat your create after the candles have burned out! These apple candles will also leave a nice and soothing apple scent that will go wonderfully with your dinner. Don’t have guests coming over? That’s okay too! These candles create the perfect romantic ambiance for you and that special someone to have a candlelit dinner!
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Vocabulary:
Relatives: people you are related to; people in your family (example: Your aunt is your relative)
Extravagant Feasts: a large dinner with lots of delicious food
Smoothies: a refreshing drink usually blended with milk and various fruits
Autumn: another name for Fall
Centerpiece: the decoration piece that usually goes in the middle of a dining table
Alternative: another option/ something that works in the same way
Bare: empty, with no decoration
Pizazz: something that adds glamour and beauty to an object
Reflecting: looking back on, thinking about
Siblings: your brothers and sisters
Commemorate: to remember in a special way
Circular: something that is round, or a circle, in shape (example: The wheels on a bike are circular)
Staple: a necessity; something that is supposed to be there (example: Turkey is a Thanksgiving staple)
Seasonal: something that only happens during a particular season; certain fruit is seasonal because it only grows during the summer
Customized: to make something your own/with your own design
Overlooked: to look over/miss a detail
Orchards: a piece of land that is planted with fruit trees
Candied Apples: a dessert where a whole apple is covered in a sweet toffee coating
Bewildered: to be confused about something interesting
Soothing: calming; peaceful; nice; pleasant
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Annik Brar is a student at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. studying International Affairs and Psychology. In her free time, she manages a support page for people with Type 1 Diabetes. She also loves photography and traveling and can speak Punjabi and Hindi fluently!