Thanksgiving Leaf Garland Craft

I've seen leaf shaped garland before, but what I like about this simple idea is gluing the clothespin on the back to hang up with ease. Visit the link below for more.

Crystal and Co.

Thanksgiving Leaf Turkey Craft

Fall leaves make the tail feathers in this cute Thanksgiving turkey craft. This is a great preschool activity. Visit the site below for more details.

Baby Center

Thanksgiving/Fall Leaf Cookies Recipe

Here's a colorful and yummy idea for Fall and Thanksgiving. Make multi-colored cookie dough and leaf shaped cookie cutters. Follow the link for the full details and lots of other fun Thanksgiving recipes.

DVO

Fall Leaf Dream Catcher Craft

Use natural materials to make a great looking dream catcher/mobile craft. This makes a good Fall or Thanksgiving craft activity after a nature walk. Visit the great Mom site below for the full tutorial.

Mom to 2 Posh Lil Divas

Fall Tree and Turkey Scene Paper Tube Craft

Here's a fun and simple fall craft idea that's great for Thanksgiving, too. . Use paper towel rolls and fall leaves to make trees complete with a matching toilet roll turkey. Follow the link below for the full details.


Seventh Generation

Easy Fall Leaves Lantern Craft

It doesn't get much simpler than this. Use artificial leaves and a recycled mason jar to make a beautiful fall leaves lantern like this for Thanksgiving. Mod Podge the leaves on the jar in this decoupage craft idea. Just add the candle. Follow the link for the full tutorial.

Kids Activities Blog

Easy Plastic Cup Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

It doesn't get much simpler than this. Glue face and feet pieces on a colored paper or plastic cup. Then add leaf tail feathers. Visit the site below for more on this and loads of other Thanksgiving craft ideas.

She Knows Parenting

Fall Nature Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

Tired of the same old paper plate turkeys? Well, here's something different. Use all natural materials to create an eco-friendly Thanksgiving Turkey. Use an orange as a base, a pine cone head, acorn feet, and maple leaf tail feathers. So cute and creative.

Parenting

Halloween Hand Print and Leaf Witch Crafts

 

This French website has some awesome and really original Halloween craft ideas, particularly witch crafts. I especially like the hand print witch an leaf witch crafts. Follow the link below for the full details on these and lots of other Halloween craft ideas.

Les Ptits Bricoleurs

Thanksgiving Turkey Nature Collage Craft

I love this nature craft. Use beans, leaves, grain, and bark to create this colorful, 3D turkey collage craft for Thanksgiving. This is a turkey for Thanksgiving, but you can use the same concept to create other collage images. This would be a great Earth Day craft idea. Go to the site below for more details on this craft.

Better Homes and Gardens

Fall Leaf Printing Craft

This leaf printing craft is so beautiful and great for fall, but could be done anytime of year. It's a nice alternative to the standard leaf rubbings with crayons.

Materials:

• various leaves
• construction paper
• various color paint
• shallow trays

Directions:

1. Arrange various colors of paint on shallow plastic trays.
2. Dip your leaves into the paint and press onto paper.
3. You could also paint each color directly on the leaf with a brush, but that's not as fun.



Fall Leaf Magnet Craft

This fall leaf magnet craft is such a good idea. Use a real leaf as a template, crumpled up tissue paper, and strip magnets to make this pretty and useful craft. Follow the link for the full tutorial.

Crafts, Food, and Teaching Themes or Children

Thanksgiving Fall Leaves Turkey Craft

Wow, this Thanksgiving Fall leaves turkey craft looks so good. Use cardboard circles and colorful leaves to make it. Follow the link below for the full tutorial on the leaf turkey and make a leaf pumpkin, too.

My Creative Stirrings

Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Centerpiece Craft

Here's a great idea to create a Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Centerpiece craft from a clay flower pot, some felt, and a few other seasonal items. It will really set the scene on the Thanksgiving Day dinner table. Follow the link for this and other great Thanksgiving craft ideas.

ehow Mom

Thanksgiving Fall Leaves Place mats Craft

This Thanksgiving fall leaves place mats craft is a unique and also useful Thanksgiving idea. Use colorful fall leaves and contact paper to create these practical works of art. Use them at the dinner table to really set the mood for the season. Follow the link below for more details.

love2learn2day

Thanksgiving Day Fall Leaves Turkey Craft

Here's a Thanksgiving Day fall leaves turkey craft that is easy to make and brings a little outside nature into the holidays.

Materials:

• orange, brown, yellow, and red construction paper
• scissors
• glue
• 2 google eyes
• various shaped and colored fall leaves

Directions:

1. Cut a simple turkey neck and head shape from brown paper. Cut a yellow beak and legs and a red waddle.
2. Glue the pieces on an orange sheet of construction paper.
3. Glue on 2 google eyes.
4. Glue fall leaves around the turkey to make the tail feathers.

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Colorful Leaf Stamping Craft

Here's an absolutely beautiful craft idea from Little Page Turners Blog. Use rainbow colored paint, cover a leaf and then print onto paper.

Materials:

• paints
• craft cookie pan or wax paper
• large flat leaf
• white paper

Directions:

1. Put various colors of paint onto a pan or wax paper and use a paper towel to spread into a big leaf shape.
2. Press the leaf onto the paint ad lift up.
3. press the leaf onto white paper to print. Allow to dry.

Paper Towel Roll Fall Tree Craft

Using a paper towel roll as a trunk, there are infinite variety of tree crafts you can make.

Materials:

• paper towel roll
• piece of paper
• paints
• scissors
• leaves of various kinds
• glue
• tape

Directions:

1. Paint a paper towel roll with brown paint. Allow to dry.
2. Cut the top into long strips for branches and cut the bottom into 4 short strips to tape to a base piece of paper.
3. Glue on your leaves.
4. Tape the bottom to a piece of paper to stand up.
5. I saw one great idea of cutting a hole in the side of the paper towel and putting a squirrel picture inside

Leaves ideas:

1. Cut leaves from various shades of paper or get cut foam leaves. You can make a summer or fall trees.
2. Use crinkled up tissue paper for leaves. Use fall colors or use pink for a spring cherry blossom tree.
3. Paint real leaves and fold inside a piece of white paper to make stamped images, then cut out.
4. Make leaf rubbings with crayons and cut out.
5. Use real leaves.

Fall Leaf Necklace Craft

You can use a piece of cardboard as a medallion and decorate it with fall leaves.

Materials:

• cardboard
• pencil
• scissors
• leaves, acorns, twigs, etc.
• glue
• yarn
• tape

Directions:

1. Draw a simple geometric shape on a thick piece of cardboard and cut out. Shape could be a star, circle, diamond, etc. Make it about 4" wide.
2. Glue on leaves and other fall decorations collected from outside.
3. Loop a long piece of yarn and tape to the back of the medallion.
4. Wear your leaf necklace.

Easy Cloth Fall Leaf Craft

This is a very easy fall leaf craft for the youngest students.

Materials:

• leaf cut out from yellow paper
• various cloth scraps cut into small squares
• glue

Directions:

1. Beforehand, trace and cut out little fall leaf shapes from yellow paper like the one shown.
2. Glue on small squares of various kinds of cloth.