Turkey Handprint Craft

Burgin is 27 months old

Another adorable craft that they did in Burgin's MOPS daycare class. Make a Turkey out of hand prints!

Thanksgiving Cube

Burgin is 27 months old

Burgin made this (more like colored it), in his MOPS daycare class. The idea is that the child makes the cube and then rolls it. Whatver lands on top is what they say they are thankful for. I couldn't find a similar cube on the web, but a cube can easily be made by cutting two milk cartons and fitting them together. Cover them with paper and drawer or paste some pictures. or use a folding dice template from the web.

Balloon Lightsaber

Burgin is currently 27 months old

Idea Source: Filth Wizardry

This is a test run on Filth Wizardry's Balloon Lightsaber. I didn't want to spend a lot of time making them all fancy if case my 2 year old could care less. But not surprisingly, anything with balloons and a flashlight, he got very excited over.

Note: Not any balloon pump will do, you must use one small enough for the twisty balloons.

Daniel and the Lions Craft

1. Use a small yellow paper plate, or color a regular one yellow.
2. Add ears and googly eyes and ears
3. Add strips of brown yarn with glue.
4. Draw a nose and mouth.

Felt Turkey

Burgin is 27 months old

Source: I have to find where I got the template.

After printing, cutting the template and the felt. I glued the turkey head together and onto the body. Burgin was able to put the Turkey's feathers on. I also covered a small pizza box with felt to use as a felt board and store my felt board crafts.

In our Religious ed class, students will each put a feather on saying something that they are thankful for.

Turkey Cookies

Idea Source: Thrive

Thanks to Thrive for this adorable and easy edible item to make. Mine didn't come out as good as theirs, but I also had a 2 year old wanting to help!!

Thanksgiving Tree

Burgin is 27 months old

Everyday we glue a silk leave to a tree I drew on our slider. When we glue it we say something we are Thankful for.

Helper

Burgin is 27 months old

Burgin loves helping around the house, so any opportunity I see to include him, I do. This t-shirt folding contraption I got a few years back at a flea market allows Burgin to easily help. Although, I know I bought it for far less than what I see something similar costs at Amazon.com

Homemade Drum Marble Activity

Burgin is 27 months old

Create a drum:

1. Cut a balloon and stretch it across something with a rounded edge like a pot.

2. Use a rubber band to help hold it in place, if possible.

Experiment:

Drop a marble gently onto the homemade drum. It is really neat to watch how it continues to bounce and doesn't fall off. If you bounce it too hard, it will bounce off almost immediately.

Craft Failure

Not every craft is a success. This would be in the craft failure category. I thought by dipping strips of yarn into a bunch of watered down glue and then placing them in a cookie mold would create craft. Maybe I didn't have enough patience to let it dry fully or maybe I didn't use enough glue but as soon as removed the mold, the yarn turned into a blob!

Happy Thanksgiving Corn Craft

Burgin is 27 months old

We made a bunch of these for friends and family.

1. Pop a bag of popcorn

2. Cut out some yellow cardstock into the shape of ears of corn

3. Crumple the popcorn and glue it to the yellow cardstock (Burgin was able to do this part). "Pat, pat, pat" as he would say!!

4. After it is dry, wrap tissue paper around the bottom of the corn for the husk and twist.

5. The "Happy Thanksgiving"strips are printed using special font from Wonderfonts

Leaves are Falling

Burgin is currently 27 months old

Since we live in Florida, we don't get to enjoy raking or jumping in the leaves. I lucked out and was able to buy bags of silk leaves (70 to a pack) for 25 cents each on sale at Target. I play the song "Leaves are Falling" from his Music Together CD while I drop leaves on him. He gets so excited. Warning... it does make a big mess!!