PRESCHOOLERS

Pilgrim Hat

What You Need:

•  Construction paper (large size in black, regular size in white and yellow)
•  Scissors
•  Glue
•  Tape

 

What You Do:

•  Take a large piece of black construction paper and cut two strips about two or three inches wide (this will be the band that goes around your child's head).

•  With another large piece of black construction paper, cut out a rectangle that is just a little bit longer than the width of your child's head (this will be the brim of the hat).

•  Grab another piece of black construction paper and cut a rectangle out with one end tapered to be smaller than the other end (this will be the top of the hat).

•  Cut out a white band two inches wide that is the same width of the biggest end of your top of the hat piece.

•  Cut out a yellow square that is four-by-four-inches.

•  Cut out a white square that is two-by-two-inches.

•  Glue the top of the hat to the brim of the hat.

•  Glue the black band to go around the head to the middle of the brim of the hat going horizontally.

•  Glue the white band onto the top of the hat just above the brim.

•  Glue the yellow square in the center of your white band.

•  Glue the little white square on top in the center of the yellow square.

•  Set aside to dry.

•  Once dry, hold up to your child's head and wrap the band around his head and tape (you can trim off excess, too).

 

Handprint Turkey

What You Need:

•  Non-toxic poster paint (brown, yellow, orange, red)
•  Paint brush
•  PaperMarker
•  Something to hold your paint

What You Do:

•  Pour a little of each color of paint into a container or paper plate.

•  Use the paint brush and paint your child's palm and thumb brown.

•  Paint his fingers in alternating colors of red, yellow or orange.

•  Press their hand down in the center of their paper like a stamp.

•  Set aside to dry.

•  Once dry, take your marker and let them draw feet, a beak and eyes.

 

Indian Vest

What You Need:

•  Large Paper Bag
•  Scissors
•  Crayons

What You Do:

•  Crumple the paper bag completely, scrunching it up, anything to get lots of wrinkles (this also softens the bag to look like fake leather).

•  Take your scissors and cut down the middle of the front of the bag all the way down to the edge of the bottom.

•  Once you get to the bottom, cut out a circle from the bottom for the opening to go around your neck.

•  Cut long ovals down the sides of the paper bag starting from the edge of the bottom (this will be for your arms to go through).

•  Once you have all the parts cut out, reverse the bag so that any printed sides are now on the inside.

•  Color the outside now with animals, leaves, anything you wish.

 

Thankful Tree

What You Need:

•  Large Brown Construction Paper
•  Regular size construction paper in red, orange and yellow
•  Scissors
•  Crayon
•  Glue

 

What You Do:

•  Take your large brown construction paper and cut out the trunk of a tree with branches.

•  With your different colors of construction paper, trace your hand many times and cut them out.

•  Write on them things you are thankful for (ideas can come from the children, but a parent can help write them).

•  Glue them to the branches of your tree.

 

AGES 6 & OLDER

Pinecone Turkey

What You Need:

•  Pinecone
•  Construction paper
•  Scissors
•  Glue

What You Do:

•  Take your construction paper and cut out many feather-like shapes in orange, red and yellow.

•  Put a dab of glue on the point of a leaf and slide it between parts of the pinecone on one end only.

•  Do this until you have the top half of one end full of colorful feathers sticking up.

•  Now cut a triangle out of the orange and glue it to the other end of the pinecone.

•  Cut out two small circles from white construction paper and color in a black dot on them as these will be the eyes.

•  Glue your eyes just above the beak.

•  Set aside and let dry.

 

Indian Headdress

What You Need:

•  White paper plates
•  Stapler
•  Glue
•  Construction Paper
•  Red crayon

 

What You Do:

•  Cut a paper plate exactly in half.

•  Take one half and color a red border about one inch in from the rounded side and about 2 inches wide (don't color on the straight side).

•  Cut out many feathers from your construction paper in red, yellow, orange and brown.

•  Glue some feathers on the under side around the rounded side of the the paper plate that has the red border (not along the straight side).

•  Glue feathers in layers on the entire top side of the other half paper plate that is full white as this will be the backside.

•  Set all aside to dry.

•  Once they are dry, line the plates up back to back with the straight edge on the bottom and staple and the corner. For older children, you can disregard step 5 and just add a band of paper to go around their head.

 

Fall Leaf Wreath

What You Need:

•  Paper Plate
•  
Scissors

•  Glue

•  Ribbon

•  Hole Punch
•  
Leaves




What You Do

•  Gather up many leaves of all different colors and sizes.

•  Take a paper plate and cut out the middle of it so that there is only about a two-inch border.

•  Start taking the leaves one by one and glueing them onto the plate.

•  Once your plate is filled and you have your wreath, take the hole punch and punch a hole in the top about half an inch down.

•  Take a long piece of ribbon and stick both ends through the hole and tie it into a small bow — this will leave a long loop in the back for which to hang the wreath with.

 

Fall Garland

What You Need:

•  Green Yarn
•  Construction Paper
•  Scissors
•  Glue

What You Do

•  Cut a really long piece of green yarn.

•  Cut out many different shapes and colors of leave from your construction paper (in red, orange, yellow and brown). As you are cutting your leaves, double up your paper so that you have leaves that are the same size.

•  Take your leaves that are the same size and glue them back to back with the green yarn between them.

•  Do this to the full length of the yarn.

•  Set aside to dry.

•  Once it is dry, hang along the top of your door frame or on the mantle.

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