How to Make Thanksgiving Placemats

Have you started planning your Thanksgiving dinner yet? Planning and preparing the traditional Turkey Day feast requires time and energy, but the reward is a memorable day with family and friends. With just a little time and a few basic craft supplies, you can involve your children in the flurry of activity and have some colorful placemats for your Thanksgiving table too.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Large construction paper in fall colors
• Smaller construction paper in a variety of colors
• White craft glue or a glue stick
• Child-safe scissors
• Colored markers
• Plastic laminate

Thanksgiving "Turkey" Placemats

1. Paint the child's thumb and palm with brown craft paint.

2. Use a variety of colors to dab paint on remaining fingertips.

3. Press the child's hand onto the construction paper.

4. Allow the paint to dry.

5. Give your child the markers to draw eyes, legs, feet, wattles and any other desired decoration on the "turkey."

6. Cover with clear contact paper to make the placemat durable and easy to clean.

Thankful Placemats

7. Give your child a pile of old magazines and let him cut out pictures that represent things for which he is thankful.

8. Help her glue the pictures to a piece of construction paper.

9. Ask your child to write his name on the placemat, along with any other drawings he wants to add.

10. Laminate with clear plastic.

Turkey Day Placemats

11. Help your child draw Thanksgiving dinner food items on the smaller pieces of construction paper with the markers and cut them out.

12. Glue the 'food' on the large construction paper. Allow to dry.

13. Write the child's name and/or the guest's name on the placemat. Let your child add additional drawings.

14. Cover with clear plastic.

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