50 Thanksgiving Kids' Crafts

Get the kids involved with Thanksgiving prep by having them help decorate with their homemade crafts. They can make place card holders, thumbprint or stamp table runners or napkins, gather leaves and paint pinecones to help add a finishing touch to your table settings and centerpiece. If you’re looking for ways to keep the kids busy while the turkey cooks, lay out some crayons and have them decorate the brown craft paper you used to cover the kids’ table. They can also make cards, paper straw necklaces or glove puppets. For older kids, print one of our word search or jumble games. If you can take the party outside, make a football toss game or have the kids bob for apples. When Thanksgiving is over, we’ve also got crafts to keep the kids busy on the long weekend, and holiday crafts to get started on Christmas.

First up: Start with the basics, a pail of crayons and a printed coloring page will always be a winning craft idea for entertaining kids. Pile your family table or the kids' table on Thanksgiving with a few festive coloring books and supply plenty of crayons and colored pencils to help them create a masterpiece. Another good idea? Invite them to write a list of things they're grateful for each day when working on their coloring project.