I am looking for craft ideas that my 2 1/2 year old can do or at least help with most of it. Something cute to give her grandparents and to fill up our week a little since we have no classes because of Thanksgiving.
Thanks in advance!
Great ideas ladies - KEEP THEM COMING! If you have some good Christmas ideas as well feel free to post. Thanks again!
hi - we made handprint "turkeys" today.
trace your kids hands (or have them do it for a more memorable look) then cut them out and let them decorate with feathers, googly eyes, and pipe cleaners for legs.
have fun!
A.
I do hand/feet turkeys every year - amazing how fast they grow! The foot is the body and the hands (5 of them) are teh tail feathers...
We also go for nature walks and pick up sticks, rocks, pine cones, leaves, etc and that along with old potpouri makes really cute picture holders - glue the pinecone in a fashion to cardboard that it will hold a 4x6 pic up and then let them go crazy gluing th enatural elements - they turn out really neat!
There are some cute art projects here....
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfea...
Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope these links will help you.
:)
T.
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/toddler/
http://familyfun.go.com/arts-and-crafts/season/specialfea...
Hi A.!
You can't beat the time honored tradition of tracing her hand and then turning into a turkey... do it on posterboard or construction paper then let her decorate with dry pasta, feathers, torn colored paper, cotton balls, whatever. They turn out precious and she can make as many as she wants.
Have Fun!
R. H
You can use hand paint as turkey like artist for grandparents.. Or go to The Mad Potter for his hand print on platter or else, but it might be too late.. Perfect for Christmas gift too!! Good luck!
I have found some really fun craft ideas at this website: http://www.familyeducation.com/home/ They have things for different ages for all the different holidays. I love picking out some fun things for my daughter and I to do. She really enjoys them, even though she's only two!
My favorite Thanksgiving craft so far is one that we did a few weeks ago. We made a card with my daughter's hand print. I got brown paint and put some on a plate. I used a cotton ball to put the paint on her hand, and then we carefully put it on one side of folded card stock. I touched up missing spots with my pinky. After they dried, I drew a black beak on the end of the thumb print, and put an eye on the thumb. I drew a long "S" with a red marker to make the gobbler between the beak and eye. And I added stick legs. And then I printed a poem on computer paper and framed it with brown construction paper and my daughter helped to glue it inside the card. It said:
This isn't just a turkey
as you can plainly see.
I made it with my hand
which is a part of me.
It comes with lots of love
especially to say
I hope you have a very
Special Thanksgiving Day!
I let my daughter draw on the left part of the inside of the card, and then under the poem I wrote out her whole name, her age and the date. I can't take credit for the creativity. A woman who does childcare at our church came up with the idea and I helped her one week so that the kids could make them for their moms. I loved the idea so much that I decided to turn it into a card!
I've given them to some local neighbors, friends and family, and so far they have been a hit! The ones to distant relatives go into the mail today, and I included a photo of my daughter, since she just turned two last month and I never got her photos mailed.
I am doing these crafts this week with the kids that I work with:
1. Cornicopia Name Cards: Using card stock I had the kids write names on the top, glue Bugles to the middle and glue Runts candies in front of it. Easy Easy Easy. They turned out so cute! Name cards for everyone at Thanksgiving dinner.
2. I found a pattern for a corn husk. I cut them out in green and glued popped popcorn to the middle. I also then glued them on popsicle sticks. Also very cute and a good snack at the same time.
I love doing leaf projects....it as just as fun to get them as to do the projects. My little ones are 2 and 4....and every year, we pick up leaves on our "Leaf Walks". Sometimes we iron them between 2 pieces of wax paper and hang them on the windows. Also, I draw a line turkey on a piece of construction paper, and we glue leaves all over it to make a "leaf turkey" with an acorn top for an eye. You can also take really dry leaves and let your little one crinkle them into thousands of pieces and them glue them onto a shape, a leaf shape, a letter (T for turkey/thanksgiving), or a turkey outline. (Our leaves aren't so crisp yet this year due to our summer-like weather, though, I have found.) Also check out www.preschoolexpress.com and www.familyfun.com Have fun!
Pine cone turkeys with hand shapes for a tail. Trace her hand on multiple fall colors and cut them, and glue them to the large end. make a brown felt face, and you've got a turkey!
Also, a book of fall leaves in wax paper is a keepsake she'll love forever. Add some pictures of her during fall time, and her favorite leaves and flowers.
check out the sesame street website - they have lots of great ideas!
Hand traced turkeys, bracelets, finger painting, playdoh, coloring in a book or on paper.. taking a nature walk? go to a playground near their house?
J.
Turkey Table Center Piece
1 medium sized styrofoam ball
1 small styrofoam ball.
2 toothpicks
1 knife
1 bag of feathers
1 glue
2 googly eyes
orange construction paper
scissors
pencil
This project will fill a cpl of hours of time. Take the knife and cut a flat bottom on the medium sized ball so it can sit flat on the table. Insert the toothpicks into the small ball and them connect it to the medium one. This is the head of your turkey. Glue feathers to the balls. glue googly eyes to the head. Stick some feathers in the back side for the turkey's tail. Cut out a triangle and fold in half. Glue onto the face for the beak. Trace 2 hand prints and glue to the bottom for feet. Instead of placing in middle of table, put it on a plate and carry it out to grandpa on Thanksgiving day.
1. Hand turkeys. Trace her hands on colored construction paper, and glue them together. The thumbs make the head, and the fingers make the feathers. Decorate it as needed. The palms bend apart to make a stand. You can use these on thanksgiving day for place cards, or just for decoration.
2. Outside art. Gather lots of seed pods, leaves, twigs, anything your child finds outside, glue them onto paper to make a collage. They can recreate scenes from outdoors: trees, birds, rivers, whatever they think of, and then frame it with orange construction paper for that fall look.
There are lots of places that have craft ideas. Parenting.com, familyfun.com. PBS kids have online games free that they can play. Try the library for an outing. Have her help with baking/cooking.
Good luck, happy thanksgiving.
