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Contact_FullName: sandy Contact_Email: cabrionurse@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: Turkey Sweatshirts: Each child brings in a sweatshirt. Their handprint is placed on the center of shirt . Paint palm and thumb brown, remaining fingers with assorted bright colors for feathers. Orange feet and red "gobbler" can be added by child with fine brushes. Contact_FullName: susan Contact_Email: nyc_susan@yahoo.com Area: thanksgiving-art Idea: Potato turkeys will make kids proud and parents smile. Very simple, but a little work on your part... each child gets a potato. cut out small colorful feathers from construction paper and have children glue two (facing each other) onto toothpicks. once dry, stick the other end of the toothpicks into the back of the potato. You can make a head with waddle the same way and have them put googly eyes on before they stick them in. These are really great and give kids a chance to feel artistic and successful. Contact_FullName: Patti Ley Contact_Email: tricia0048@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving - A Slice of Spice Idea: Cut a paper plate into eighths like a pie. Color or paint the edge brown. Paint the rest orange, while it is still wet, sprinkle pumpkin pie spice on. Finish with a cotton ball. Voila, a slice of spice (pumpkin pie) Contact_FullName: Robin Contact_Email: mwastorino@eriecoast.com Area: Thanksgiving Idea: Have each child bring a potato to school. Cut feather shapes out and glue them to tooth picks. Allow the children to stick the feathers into the potato to make a turkey. Add wiggly eyes and other shapes from foam. My kids loved this activity. Contact_FullName: Lori Contact_Email: Baum8@prodigy.net Area: Fall or Thanksgiving -art Idea: This a great family project or preschoolers it love too!! Draw two corn cob shapes onto white construction paper. Have children cut out the shapes. Pop 2 cups of popcorn. (Children love to eat the popcorn, so make a little extra) Staple top of cobs together, spread bottom apart. Put red, yellow, and brown dry tempra paint into 3 different zip lock bags. Put small amount of popcorn into each bag, and shake until desired color. Put dots of glue all over the corn cobs and place popcorn onto the glue. Staple real corn husks to the top of corn cobs. These make beautiful table or window decorations!! Contact_FullName: Adnaloy Rodriguez Contact_Email: Adnaloytiti@aol.com Area: Thanksgiving Idea: For Thanksgiving, create your own tablecloth. Purchase plain white paper tablecloths and let the children sponge paint leaves, pumpkins, and fruit prints. You can use precut sponges and/or every day materials like , apples, leaves, pears, feathers...etc. Children will have lots of fun and parents will love to see what their kids made. Contact_FullName: Opal Contact_Email: hoffmann@chartermi.net Area: Thanksgiving art Idea: Pumpkin Turkeys This is similar to the potato turkey, but we use the tiny gourd pumpkins. Have the children punch holes on one side of the pumpkin ( about 6 or 7)with a small nail. Push feathers in the holes. next, out of construction paper make a head shape, beak and waddle. Glue together and tape or staple to front of pumpkin (glue doesn't work well). Attach wiggle eyes and poke one hole on each side and poke in feathers for wings. CUTE! We use them to decorate our table settings. Contact_FullName: susan Contact_Email: sgolloub@aol.com Area: thanksgiving craft : Table turkey Idea: Using Model Magic make a ball the size of an orange. Add color to it by drawing on it with marker and mashing it in. This gives it a marbleized affect. Stick a small wooden spoon (found in craft stores) in one end of the ball and 5 colored feathers into the other end. Add detail to the spoon to make a face. This make a cute table decoration. It's a turkey! Contact_FullName: Jen Contact_Email: jpengelly@sympatico.ca Area: Thanksgiving-Art Idea: Turkey Door Hangers Using brown construction paper have children cut out Turkey shapes or provide them for the children. Cut a hole (the size of a door knob) in the turkey's tummy. Provide feathers or feather cut outs to be glued onto the backside of the turkey. Provide facial features for the children to glue on. A cute saying printed on a small piece of paper glued to a toothpick (to make a sign) "I've lost my stuffing" (Glue or tape to side of turkey) For extra stability use Bristol board instead of construction paper. Contact_FullName: Nancy Contact_Email: chief99@optonline.net Area: fall/ thanksgiving Idea: i did this project with my toddlers and they loved it. Precut a yellow construction paper corn cob shape. have the children use do a dot markers aka bingo markers and create as many colored dots as they wish on the corn cob shape. I used blue, green, orange, red, and purple markers. When they finished i stapled on real corn husks. They looked so cute! Contact_FullName: Shirley Wells Contact_Email: mwells@kimbanet.com Area: Thanksgiving-Bulletin board Idea: Send home a cut-out feather shape home for family and child to decorate together. You will be amazed at the creativity. I used to theme being thankful for family. I drew a bear-but turkey on the bulletin board and added each decorated turkey to make it's tail. It was awesome! The title was "Feathers that have it All Together" The parents loved it. Contact_FullName: Julie Contact_Email: lipsmom3@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving-Art Idea: Using an overhead projector, i traced a turkey on white paper. I painted the body brown (you could also have your kids do the painting). Using various colored tissue paper, The children then ball up the tissue paper and glue it down. Yellow for the beak, feet and a feather, blue for the eyes and a feather, red the the wattle and a feather. Don't forget other colors for the feathers! (orange, green, black, brown, white, purple, etc) I then cut out the finished turkey to hang on the door (or wall) It looks great! I did this 2 years ago, and I'm still getting compliments on it! Contact_FullName: Liz Contact_Email: kailaasa@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving - Art Idea: Give each of the children a piece of construction paper and a straw. In the middle of the paper put a small puddle of brown paint. Let the children use their straw to move the paint around, this will be the body of the turkey. You then put several small puddles of paint on the top edge of the brown splotch in different colors, green, orange, red, and yellow. These will form the tail feathers. Have the children blow these up and out. Give them each a beak, wattle, eyes and feet to glue on. Very cute. Contact_FullName: Beth Contact_Email: Jeffcarr256@cs.com Area: Thanksgiving Idea: One year, we did turkey magnets - I precut ( saves time! ) brown circles - large for body, small for head - & different colored feathers. The children glued the head on the body ( overlap them a little ) & the feathers on the back, behind the head. Don't forget to have them make a face on their turkey! When dry, on each feather we wrote "I am thankful for" & then their answer. You could also write "I am thankful for" on the body & the answers on the feathers. Then on the back, glue a small magnet to go on the fridge! Contact_FullName: Kyle Idea: Indian Corn Take a paper towel roll and glue popcorn packing peanuts on to the tube. Place the tube in a brown paper lunch sack with three strips cut down 3/4 of the way to represent the husk leaves. glue the top of the paper towel roll and bottom to the lunch bag. Have the kids paint the "peanuts" once everything is dry the Indian corn colors (brown, purple, yellow, orange). You can also glue in the top of the towel roll some yellow yarn or ribbon to represent the corn silk. Looks great. Contact_FullName: Camille Contact_Email: cnorth@eicap.org date:: 11/7/06 Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: We gave each child a pattern of an empty cornucopia and a stack of grocery adds. Children cut out pictures of their favorites foods and glued them into the opening in the cornucopia. We hung these up on our bulletin board and are really cute. The children recognize their own and are always pointing to it. Fun! Email me for pattern if you need it, I just googled and found it. Contact_FullName: Tori Contact_Email: TElmgren+pp@gmail.com date:: 11/03/06 Area: Thanksgiving crafts Idea: Fall Wreaths- You will need: * Small white paper plates with the middle cut out. * Brown tempera paint * glue or paste (glue stick will not work) * natural colored raffia * Various fall items * Holepunch Start out by taking your class out for a nature walk and talking about autumn while you gather leaves in various colors and shapes, berries, tiny pinecones and nuts. I give each child a small bag to gather their goodies in so they can take them home. I gather a separate bag to use for our project . Next let them paint the paper plate . When it's dry punch a hole in the top, tie on a piece of the raffia in a bow and let them glue on the items from the nature walk. Dry flat. They're VERY cute when they're done!! Contact_FullName: Melissa Swanson Contact_Email: nickandmelissa@chartermi.net date:: 11/02/06 Area: toddler & preschool art-fall, harvest time, native american, thanksgiving Idea: Indian Corn- Draw and copy a picture of a piece of corn on the cob w/ squares drawn in for the piece of corn. Cut small square pieces of fall color paper, or have child cut. Glue on cob. Add 2 brown corn husks, one on each side. For toddlers, I put on the dots of glue. Both ages, you could add color coded marker dots to cob squares for 1:1 matching. Contact_FullName: Kyle Contact_Email: Area: Thanksgiving Art or Food Art Idea: Indian Corn Supplies: Paper towel roll Paper Lunch bag Styrofoam popcorn (or peanuts) Paint Glue Yellow Ribbon scissors Put glue around the bottom 2 inches of the paper towel roll and going up the "back" of the roll. Put glue around 2 inches on the top too leaving a small section in the front glue free. Stick the roll into the paper bag and squish the bag to the roll on the bottom and the top and to the "back". Use scissors to cut husks that fold down to expose the kernels. I cut three husks. Put glue all over the open part of the "cob" and glue cut up pieces of the Styrofoam popcorn to the cob. When it dries have the children paint the kernels red, purple, yellow, orange, brown to make it Indian corn for Thanksgiving or all yellow for regular corn. We left the paper bag brown for the Indian corn but I'd have them paint or color it green for "fresh" or regular corn. I then took yellow ribbon (curling ribbon) and taped a few pieces in the top inside of the tube and tore them each into about 3 pieces (lengthwise) to make them curl a bit and it is the corn silk. I wish I could submit a picture it is so cute. We used counting to count the kernels, sensory to feel the popcorn and crinkle the bag, and colors for the different color kernels. Contact_FullName: Christina Contact_Email: Christina_edu@hotmail.com Area: Thanksgiving-Art Idea: Have parents save corn husks and bring in ahead of time. Dry them by laying them out for 2 days. Have children cut lines in paper to make weaving mats. Then use the dried husks to weave a harvest placemat. Contact_FullName: Kim Contact_Email: mucakim@aol.com Area: Bulletin boards, Theme of Thanksgiving Idea: I teach kindergarten and this project is a hit! During the holidays I try to pull together families into the children's work. I discuss with the children what they are thankful for and what the word thankful means. I then show them 2 turkeys I created and then laminated that do not have any feathers. I discuss with them how we should be thankful for our families and then I have each child cut out a feather from a tracer that I have. I type up a little note to the parents and have them bring it home. They are to decorate their feather with anything they want. They are then required to write on their feather what they are thankful for. Parents have used feathers, felt, wallpaper, glitter, pictures, cotton, crayons, markers, ribbon, etc. The feathers come back to me looking great. Not only do the kids love this project but the parents do also. once I get all the feathers back I attach them to my featherless turkeys and I title the bulletin board "Two very thankful Turkeys". The parents always can't wait to see the outcome. Compliments will fly your way with this project! Contact_FullName: Anna Contact_Email: kidsrmybiz@insightbb.com Area: Turkey Art Idea: We made paper mache turkey's with my 4 and 5 year old class this year. We took a balloon, blew it up, mixed up flour paste, just flour and water until it's the right consistency, dipped torn newspaper into the paste and wrapped the balloon with the newspaper. It took about 2-3 days to dry. Then when it was dry the children painted the turkey brown. This took another 1-2 days to dry. Then we traced their hands on orange construction paper, cut them out and used this for the tail feathers, I traced around their foot on brown construction paper and this became the head of the turkey. We then glued on a red triangle and wiggly eyes to the head. They turned out so cute! The parents all said this was a keeper and they all used it as a centerpiece for Thanksgiving dinner. Contact_FullName: Beth Contact_Email: Jeffcarr256@cs.com Area: Thanksgiving Idea: This year we are making placemats. We will either color a picture of a turkey ( copied from clip art or a coloring book ) or paint our hand turkey colors ( trace hand for those who do not like to paint their hand ) & place those onto a sheet of construction paper. Along the top we will write "I am thankful for" & along the bottom we will write our answer(s). When dry, laminate/contact paper both sides. Can be used every Thanksgiving! Contact_FullName: Melissa Contact_Email: miswoods00@verizon.net date:: 11/18/03 Area: Turkeys--Art Idea: There are two ways I make turkeys with the kids. The first is a handprint. I let the kids paint their palm and thumb brown (or paint it myself for the little ones) and the fingers bright colors for feathers. After they make their handprint on paper, we draw on eyes and legs. For a twist, I trace their hands with brown crayon or marker on brown construction paper, cut craft feathers in half and glue the cut feathers to the fingers. We add a cheerio or fruit loop for eyes and cut orange pipe cleaners for feet. Contact_FullName: Vanessa Contact_Email: date:: 11-16-03 Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: Coffee Filter Turkeys Materials needed: one regular coffee filter per child, regular crayola watercolor markers, brown construction paper, white construction paper, glue, water. Have each child color on the coffee filter using the crayola markers. Next, spray the coffee filters gently with water. The colors will bleed together to create a beautiful tail for your turkey. Next, cut large brown circles of construction paper for the turkey's body. Cut another smaller brown circle for the head. Glue the dried coffee filter on the white paper, then the body, and finally the head. These turkeys are really something to look at! Contact_FullName: Bari Contact_Email: BRosenholtz@msn.com date:: 11/13/03 Area: Thanksgiving; Thanksgiving Art Idea: Stained Glass Turkeys: Give the children construction paper feathers that have the inside cut out (just the outline of the feather is used). Glue 3 or 4 outlines of feathers on wax paper, then take tissue paper squares and glue them on the inside of the feather (this will be on the wax paper). After they dry, you will need to cut out the left over wax paper that surrounds the feathers. Attach a body (if you want a front view of a turkey, cut out a brown "potato" shape head/body and glue feathers on either side. If you want a side view, cut a large circle for the body and then an oval for the head. Glue eyes, feet, etc. as you desire. Hang them in the window for beautiful stained glass feathers on your turkeys. It takes some time to make, but they are so different and nice to look at, adding lots of color to your windows! Contact_FullName: Kimberly Tetrick Contact_Email: Kimberlyallboys@aol.com date:: 06/05/03 Idea: Create a Turkey with an apple, colored marshmallows and toothpicks. Take the apple and place it on a paper plate, take the colored marshmallows and place them on the toothpicks and stick them in the apple. Contact_FullName: Patti Ley Contact_Email: tricia0048@hotmail.com date:: 11/16/02 Area: Thanksgiving - A Slice of Spice Idea: Cut a paper plate into eighths like a pie. Color or paint the edge brown. Paint the rest orange, while it is still wet, sprinkle pumpkin pie spice on. Finish with a cotton ball. Voila, a slice of spice (pumpkin pie) Contact_FullName: Adnaloy Rodriguez Contact_Email: Adnaloytiti@aol.com date:: 11/10/02 Area: Thanksgiving Idea: For Thanksgiving, create your own tablecloth. Purchase plain white paper tablecloths and let the children sponge paint leaves, pumpkins, and fruit prints. You can use precut sponges and/or every day materials like , apples, leaves, pears, feathers...etc. Children will have lots of fun and parents will love to see what their kids made. Contact_FullName: Nancy Contact_Email: chief99@optonline.net date:: 12/27/01 Area: fall/ thanksgiving Idea: i did this project with my toddlers and they loved it. Precut a yellow construction paper corn cob shape. have the children use do a dot markers aka bingo markers and create as many colored dots as they wish on the corn cob shape. I used blue, green, orange, red, and purple markers. When they finished i stapled on real corn husks. They looked so cute! Contact_FullName: Shirley Wells Contact_Email: mwells@kimbanet.com date:: 12/2/01 Area: Thanksgiving-Bulletin board Idea: Send home a cut-out feather shape home for family and child to decorate together. You will be amazed at the creativity. I used to theme being thankful for family. I drew a bear-but turkey on the bulletin board and added each decorated turkey to make it's tail. It was awesome! The title was "Feathers that have it All Together" The parents loved it.
Contact_FullName: Jenn Contact_Email: mikeand Jenn@aol.com date:: 11/5/01 Area: Thanksgiving-Pre-K Idea: For Thanksgiving, use a clear plastic glove as your turkey. Fill each of the fingers, except for the thumb, with fall colored tissue paper. Fill the thumb with brown tissue paper, The rest of the body can be filled with popcorn, or candy corn. Tie the bottom tightly with a twist tie. Glue two eyes on both sides of the thumb and a triangle construction paper nose. Send this home to be enjoyed with your child's family!!
Contact_FullName: Susan Contact_Email: psulo@anent.com date:: 11/01/01 Area: Thanksgiving Crafts Idea: I do a variation of several of the placemat and turkey ideas I see on the site. I paint the child's palm and thumb brown, the fingers different colors, and print it on a template of a dinner plate. After it dries, the child glues the plate in the middle of the placemat. Napkin, fork, knife, and spoon are placed in the proper place settings on either side. I put in the little rhyme about the turkey being special because it is the child's hand, along with the child's name and Thanksgiving 2001, or whatever year it is. Then I laminate it. The child uses the mat at our school Thanksgiving feast, and then takes it home. It provides a complete template for how to set the table. Parents love it! Contact_FullName: susan Contact_Email: sgolloub@aol.com date:: 11/07/02 Area: thanksgiving craft : Table turkey Idea: Using Model Magic make a ball the size of an orange. Add color to it by drawing on it with marker and mashing it in. This gives it a marbleized affect. Stick a small wooden spoon (found in craft stores) in one end of the ball and 5 colored feathers into the other end. Add detail to the spoon to make a face. This make a cute table decoration. It's a turkey! Contact_FullName: susan Contact_Email: nyc_susan@yahoo.com date:: 11.16.02 Area: thanksgiving-art Idea: Potato turkeys will make kids proud and parents smile. Very simple, but a little work on your part... each child gets a potato. cut out small colorful feathers from construction paper and have children glue two (facing each other) onto toothpicks. once dry, stick the other end of the toothpicks into the back of the potato. You can make a head with waddle the same way and have them put googly eyes on before they stick them in. These are really great and give kids a chance to feel artistic and successful. Contact_FullName: Lori Contact_Email: Baum8@prodigy.net date:: 11/13/02 Area: Fall or Thanksgiving -art Idea: This a great family project or preschoolers it love too!! Draw two corn cob shapes onto white construction paper. Have children cut out the shapes. Pop 2 cups of popcorn. (Children love to eat the popcorn, so make a little extra) Staple top of cobs together, spread bottom apart. Put red, yellow, and brown dry tempra paint into 3 different zip lock bags. Put small amount of popcorn into each bag, and shake until desired color. Put dots of glue all over the corn cobs and place popcorn onto the glue. Staple real corn husks to the top of corn cobs. These make beautiful table or window decorations!! Contact_FullName: Opal Contact_Email: hoffmann@chartermi.net date:: 11/07/02 Area: Thanksgiving art Idea: Pumpkin Turkeys This is similar to the potato turkey, but we use the tiny gourd pumpkins. Have the children punch holes on one side of the pumpkin ( about 6 or 7)with a small nail. Push feathers in the holes. next, out of construction paper make a head shape, beak and waddler. Glue together and tape or staple to front of pumpkin (glue doesn't work well). Attach wiggle eyes and poke one hole on each side and poke in feathers for wings. CUTE! We use them to decorate our table settings. Contact_FullName: Jen Contact_Email: jpengelly@sympatico.ca date:: 09-09-02 Area: Thanksgiving-Art Idea: Turkey Door Hangers Using brown construction paper have children cut out Turkey shapes or provide them for the children. Cut a hole (the size of a door knob) in the turkey's tummy. Provide feathers or feather cut outs to be glued onto the backside of the turkey. Provide facial features for the children to glue on. A cute saying printed on a small piece of paper glued to a toothpick (to make a sign) "I've lost my stuffing" (Glue or tape to side of turkey) For extra stability use Bristol board instead of construction paper. Contact_FullName: Denise Contact_Email: deniseq8@hotmail.com date:: 11/25/01 Area: Pumpkin Art Idea: To make a stuffed pumpkin, we took a paper plate and cut orange crepe paper approx. 1.5" larger than the plate. The children then glue the crepe paper three quarters the way around the plate (glue sticks work the best). They stuff the pumpkin with scraps of orange crepe paper and then glue the rest. With a stencil, they then trace a green stem and a leaf and cut it out. They attach the stem and leaf to the pumpkin with glue. These pumpkins are great for fall/harvest bulletin boards. Other vegetables can be made in a similar fashion (eg. eggplant, yellow squash, ect..). A bulletin board with these veg. and stalks of corn and our homemade baskets worked great for our harvest/Thanksgiving Theme. The children harvested the board the day before Thanksgiving break using the baskets to carry their harvest (like the pilgrims did). Contact_FullName: Debby Contact_Email: Debnhar427@aol.com date:: 11/11/01 Area: Thanksgiving-art Idea: Each year, I cut a large turkey body out of brown paper (pear shaped) I add a waddle and eyes. Then I send home a construction paper feather with a note asking parents to help decorate the feather with their child any way they wish, then return them to school by a certain date. They all get brought back and displayed on the turkey that we hang in the hallway outside our classroom. The kids love it and the parents spend quality time working along side their child! __________________________________ Stained glass Indian Corn... Cut the shape of corn on the cob out of half a sheet of black construction paper. Mix water with glue enough to thin it down a little. Paint the glue on wax paper. Have available to the children small squares of tissue paper in the colors of Indian corn (purple, black, red, yellow etc.). The children place the tissue paper on the glued wax paper. When dried, tape the tissue paper to the backs of the corn cutout. Hang on the windows...very pretty! Contact_FullName: Sherri Contact_Email: srw62@aol.com date:: 11/11/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: Native American Costumes- Ask parents to send in an old light or white pillowcase. After explaining how the Native Americans used things like tea to dye their fabrics- we dye the pillowcases in tea. After they are dry we cut the closed end( for the child's head) and the sides (for their arms). They can then decorate with markers or beads. We also cut the hem end up into strips. The girls like to add beads here. The children wear these costumes to our feast and then they take them home to wear there. The parents love them!!! Contact_FullName: Julie Contact_Email: lipsmom3@hotmail.com date:: 11-06-01 Area: Thanksgiving-Art Idea: Using an overhead projector, i traced a turkey on white paper. I painted the body brown (you could also have your kids do the painting). Using various colored tissue paper, The children then ball up the tissue paper and glue it down. Yellow for the beak, feet and a feather, blue for the eyes and a feather, red the the wattle and a feather. Don't forget other colors for the feathers! (orange, green, black, brown, white, purple, etc) I then cut out the finished turkey to hang on the door (or wall) It looks great! I did this 2 years ago, and I'm still getting compliments on it! Contact_FullName: Liz Contact_Email: kailaasa@hotmail.com date:: 11/5/01 Area: Thanksgiving - Art Idea: Give each of the children a piece of construction paper and a straw. In the middle of the paper put a small puddle of brown paint. Let the children use their straw to move the paint around, this will be the body of the turkey. You then put several small puddles of paint on the top edge of the brown splotch in different colors, green, orange, red, and yellow. These will form the tail feathers. Have the children blow these up and out. Give them each a beak, wattle, eyes and feet to glue on. Very cute. Contact_FullName: Melissa Wargo Contact_Email: Melwargo@yahoo.com date:: 10/25/01 Area: Holiday activity Idea: For thanksgiving/fall theme, gather leaves and bring inside in a common area. Give a few of the kids small brooms/rakes and sing the following words to "London Bridge" Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down, Autumn leaves are falling down welcome Autumn. Sweep the leaves and put them here, put them put here, put them here, Sweep the leaves and put them here, welcome Autumn. Jump right in and have some fun, have some fun, have some fun, Jump right in and have some fun-welcome autumn. children participate in the activity in a circle and follow the cues for the activity. Contact_FullName: Mary Ellen Contact_Email: egene2@cfl.rr.com date:: 11/3/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art/Science Idea: Pinecone Turkey Centerpieces--Collect a large pinecone for each child. Cut the profile of a turkey head and neck complete with waddle out of construction paper. With pinecone laying on its side wedge the head and neck into the small end of the cone making the pinecone the body of the turkey. Trace the child's hand on to a piece of construction paper, fold paper in half and cut out two 'handprints'. Have child dictate what they are thankful for and write onto palm of one hand. Wedge the hands (with the dictation showing in the back) into the large end of the pinecone to be the tail. I do not glue the hands and heads on as they are easier to take apart and store for the next year. My own children have done this every year since preschool (they are now pre-teens). We now have a 'Turkey Farm' centerpiece with lots of memories. Contact_FullName: Ronda Contact_Email: weeteach6@aol.com date:: 10/29/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: This year for Thanksgiving our children are making turkeys with red, white and blue feathers. With the words, We are thankful to be American. The bodies of the turkeys are made from multicultural construction paper to represent the colors of America. They are coming out beautifully! Contact_FullName: deborah Contact_Email: hassockwithlegs@aol.com date:: 10/28/01 Area: thanksgiving Arts and Crafts Idea: Cornucopia Place Cards Materials Needed: Oaktag - cut into placecard size 1. Fold place card so that it is free-standing. 2. Glue Bugle onto the middle of the card. 3. Arrange Runts (orange, lemon, lime etc.) around the opening of the Bugle. 4. Glue into place. 5. Write name either on top or below the "cornucopia". Both my special needs children and typically developing children LOVE this activity. Have fun!! Contact_FullName: Lucille Contact_Email: r.j.rosene@home.com date:: 10/02/01 Area: Thanksgiving Idea: Our preschool class did a great group project this year for Thanksgiving. Take 2 large sheets of poster board and draw a large turkey on it cut it out. Color the beak, wattles and feet. Take all your fall colors of tempera paint and have each child print their handprint all over the turkey (this becomes the feathers). We have some very small children in our program so it was much easier for the instructor to paint each child's hand one at a time. It made a great classroom picture. For easy clean up add a few drops of liquid soap into the paint. Contact_FullName: Diana Contact_Email: anderson date:: 09/30/01 Area: Thanksgiving Idea: Thanksgiving Turkey Handprints Paint the palm of the child's hand brown include the thumb. Then paint the child's fingers a different color (one red, one orange, etc.) Use fall colors. Make a print on construction paper. This can be repeated as many times as the child wants. When the paint is dry color in a waddle and eyes and beak. This gives you an adorable side view of a turkey and children and parents love it because it uses the child's hand.
Contact_FullName: Karen Contact_Email: KLdaisy1@aol.com date:: 10/20/01 Area: Thanksgiving- Art Idea: A Tie Turkey. Ask the parents/guardians to send in old neck ties for an art project. On a transparency, blow up a picture of a turkey. Leaving out the feathers trace the image onto large paper. Have the children color the turkey. Each child can then decorate a tie (using all kinds of collage materials) and these become the feathers on the turkey. It makes a great bulletin board display! Contact_FullName: Chrisine Contact_Email: Christine02171 date:: 10/18/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art Family Turkey: Give your children various sheets of construction paper to take home. Instruct the family to trace and cut out handprints of all the family members, including the child. When you receive the hand cut outs back at school, assemble them on a paper to look like feathers. On top of the feathers attach a pre-cut turkey head and body. When complete, label the picture the child's family turkey. Contact_FullName: Jean Esposito Contact_Email: mespo1@bellsouth.net date:: 10/12/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art Idea: Here is an idea for a turkey magnet. Make a turkey shape out of brown poster board. Make the back of the turkey circular. Glue different colored feathers onto the turkey's back. Glue a wiggly eye on for the turkey's eye. Glue two popsicle sticks and attach piece of magnet tape onto the back of the turkey. If you have a magnetic bulletin board or cabinet door, stick all the turkeys on it. They look cute grouped together. They also look great on mom's refrigerator. Contact_FullName: Anita Contact_Email: brightbeginnings@pacbell.net date:: 10/11/01 Area: Thanksgiving Art Cut a turkey body out of brown construction paper and then glue this onto a large white paper. Put brown, yellow, red and orange paint onto paper plates. Have the children dip their hands into the paint and paint hand print turkey feathers for the tail. The more they layer their handprints the prettier to turkey.
11-30-00Native American/ Thanksgiving Theme To support our discussion about Native Americans, my kindergarten classes made dream catchers out of paper plates. We discussed how the dream catchers let the good dreams through and would catch the bad dream. For the preparation, I had a parent volunteer help cut out the center of the paper plates and punch holes all around the inside perimeter. Then the children painted both sides of the plate. After the paint was dry, the children practiced weaving the yarn in and out of the holes until it created a web. The children related this to making a spider web. Afterwards, we punched three holes at the bottom of the plate. Here we placed a piece of yarn through each hole and taped the ends together with masking tape. Using the taped end, the children thread small beads onto the yarn and then slide a feather underneath the beads. This created a tight fit so the beads would not fall off. To hang them up, we punched a hole at the top and created a loop with yarn. The children really enjoyed this activity and couldn't wait to share them with their family!
11-18-00Thanksgiving Turkeys -- To make a simple Thanksgiving Turkey, cut a simple outline of a turkey from brown construction paper. A profile of a turkey works best. Draw an eye on the turkey and the waddle. Then, with small scraps of colored tissue paper, make the feathers for the turkey. Take a square of tissue paper in your hand and insert the eraser from a pencil into the middle of the square. Twist the tissue paper around the eraser and dip into glue. Then glue the tissue paper onto the turkey cutout. Easy, and my three-year-old class loved doing it!
11-10-00For Thanksgiving we decided to make a Thanksgiving tree. We made the trunk and limbs from brown paper bags, and stapled them to the bulletin board. After the kids had thought of some things they were thankful for, we cut them out of magazines and glued them to our tree. I liked it so much we had it up for about 6 months!
11-10-00Here is Washington we have a company called Kom-pan that makes outdoor big toys with pine logs. They drill a hole through the center of the logs. Anyway, they have 2-3 inch thick slice leftovers which they gave me free. I wrapped various colors of raffia around them. The kids would choose the color they wanted. Next they glued various colored die cut construction paper leaves on the rough bottom. On the tops they glued things I'd gathered outside like wheat heads, acorns, tiny pinecones, another tiny I think fir cone, Indian corn kernels, whatever. In the center hole we placed small glass votive candle holders I was able to get at the fabric section at Wal-Mart for 44 Cents each. I though about varying this by letting them paint the wood piece first one day or maybe let them paint coffee filter die cut leaves with water colors and then use those to glue on also. They were free to choose what and how they glued it on and it was a nice thanksgiving gift.
11-7-00Thanksgiving placemats for ages 3-5 We cut out plates and Thanksgiving food from magazines and newspaper advertisements and glued them on the plates. (pumpkin pie, turkey, dressing, and even our drinks) etc. We glued these items onto a piece of regular sized construction paper the way that a place setting would be made. Then the child would write his/her name on the front or back. I took them and had them laminated and we used them for our Thanksgiving dinner and then they took them home.
11-4-00I am going to have the children in our class make Turkey center pieces out of brown paper bags. First the will stuff the bag with paper then take a rubber band and divide a small section of the bag off for the head. Feathers (either real or construction paper) will be glued on the back and red felt will be used for the waddle. Children can color eyes with marker or crayons. The perfect center piece for the parents table.
10-8-00For Thanksgiving, we purchased a bag of colorful ties from the local thrift shop. These ties were from the 50's, 60's and 70's and some were quite psychedelic! We used them for the tail-feathers for the turkey. We then used Styrofoam and cut out the turkeys front and then painted it. Our them was " Remember your family-ties at Thanksgiving". Our school board loved the board so much that they now put it up at their office each year. WE also added paper leaves and pumpkins and stacks of hay in the back ground. It all looks 3-D.
8-23-00Pine Cone Turkeys with colored feathers! I used pine cones I collected from my yard. I had seen this craft done with pipe cleaners and wanted to do feathers. When I got to JoAnn's I found colorful feathers, pink, green, red, yellow, orange and so on. So I used them. Then I took orange pipe cleaners and made like duck feet (who will know). Then I used the red pipe cleaner to make the turkeys head, then turned it so is going flat and made the gobbler part! Just too cute - easy and fast! ideaNative American costumes: We made the usual vests from paper bags but this time we painted with sticks, evergreen bushes, dried flowers, and such. We went for a walk outside to collect our paint "brushes". 11-30-99ideaThanksgiving Quilt. This is a wonderful project to promote sharing and cooperative learning. Cut a piece of fadeless paper to fit snuggly on your art table. Have material and wallpaper samples cut into squares and rectangles. Have the children glue the pieces together to form a Thanksgiving Quilt for display outside of the classroom. Every so often draw a square with a marker and have the child write their name and what they are thankful for this holiday season. You can also join your quilt with quilts made in other classes to form one giant community quilt from your school. When the children fit all of these shapes together and see the end result, they are very proud of their accomplishments!! The parents particularly like their thankful squares. Have fun! Date: 11-23-99ideaHave the children collect leaves and berries. Then they put them on contact paper, sprinkle it with glitter and then another sheet of contact paper on top. They make great Fall placemats. Date: 11-21-99ideaPUMPKIN PIES Make a variety of circles on orange construction paper, let the children cut them out. I then let them "paint" glue on it and sprinkle pumpkin pie spice. If you cannot find pumpkin pie spice, you can pre-mix nutmeg, allspice, and cinnamon. This smells wonderful and parents will adore them. Date: 11-17-99VariationI did this with my Mommy and Me class I teach. I got a bunch of pie tins donated from a local bakery. I then had the children dip their hand in glue and did a "hand-print" turkey in the pie tin. Next the children sprinkled the spices on their hand-print turkey made out of glue. They turned out awesome!!! Thanks, Jen for the GREAT idea :) Daylene ideaTake the students on a leaf hunt. Bring lots of leaves back to the classroom. Have a picture of a turkey for each child or one big one for the class. Let the students glue leaves on for the tail Date: 11-13-99ideaHave an outline of a turkey pre-traced on white construction paper. Next have the children use markers to add ground and sky. They can also color in the turkey's feet and an eye so he can see. Then use feather dusters dipped in yellow and brown paint to create a feathered look on the turkey. The feather dusters are great to use with little hands and they are very inexpensive. I usually ask my parents to donate a couple at the beginning of each year. Date: 11-13-99ideaPlacemats for Preschool Thanksgiving Feast. Have various Thanksgiving colored 8 1/2 x 11 construction paper. Using different colored paints ( red, green, yellow, brown, and orange) Dip a marble into the paint then roll the marble onto the paper inside a box to keep the marble from escaping. These make some beautiful, colorful, and unique placemats for the parents to eat on. Date: 11-13-99ideaMy four year old class made Placemats last year, they turned out so cute. I asked parents to send in a plain white, off white, (or even light yellow would work) placemat. (Dollar General $1 ea.) Then the children used their hands to print turkeys, also, I had a leaf stamp and Thanksgiving stickers, and silk, fall leaves. After they dried, I covered the placemats with contact paper. The children used them for our Thanksgiving Luncheon, the parents thought they were wonderful! Date: 11-6-99ideaAGE: any OBJECTIVE: Students will create a collage of leaves, berries, and ribbon for a decoration for Christmas or Thanksgiving. MATERIALS: Dried berries, leaves, ribbon, glue, and form wreath. DIRECTIONS: 1) Have children glue pieces of berries, ribbon , and leaves on the wreath. 2) Children should fill all areas that are opened. 3) After completing wreath, child can give as a gift or the teacher could hang them around the room. Date: 11-6-99idea 11-2-99Name place-cards: Cut white or colored poster board into sizes approx. 3 x 2. Have the children write (or write for them) the name of each family member onto a card. When finished with each place card name have the children glue a BUGGEL brand chip (the kind that look like triangles) at an angle with the pointed end towards the side-top and the opened end at the middle bottom. Then glue approx. 3-4 RUNTS fruit shaped candies around the bottom of the opened Buggel chip. The shapes come in grapes, apples, banana and oranges. They look really cute, were simple and fast plus the children will have added something to the Thanksgiving table. idea 11-2-99Another Indian corn idea...use a corn shape cutout of tag board. Cut fall colors of tisure paper into small square an inch or so. The children wad up small squares of tissue paper and glue it on the shape. Add twisted paper craft ribbon untwisted) for the husks. An easy but great fine motor activity and pretty too! ideaFor a terrific Thanksgiving display, create a large turkey outline in center of bulletin board. For the "feathers", use different shoes dipped in paint making prints upwards from the turkey. Use bold colors-reds, purples, oranges. Finish the bulletin board by adding the gobbler, beak & face to your turkey. Add a pilgrim hat on top. Bulletin board reads: We're in Step for Thanksgiving! This is adorable! Date: 10-31-99ideafor a variation on the napkin ring idea, have children roll their cut down toilet paper or paper towel rolls in Indian corn Date: 10-15-99Date: 12-1-98For Thanksgiving, we made turkeys from small paper plates. We painted one plate brown. Then we staples half of another paper plate behind and toward the top of the painted plate. The children added small, crushed pieces of various colored tissue paper on the tail portion to give color. We then let them make their own head, waddle, feet with small scraps of construction paper. They then named their turkeys and we put them on our Turkey Farm. They were adorable. Date: 11-19-98Thanksgiving Table Cloth: As many schools and classrooms prepare for their annual Thanksgiving Feast, add excitement to the big day by having the children decorate their very own tablecloth. Purchase a plain white paper tablecloth and the children can be creative using fall/Thanksgiving colors. As an idea, you can make turkey hands or just let the children have fun by inventing their own Thanksgiving creations! Date: 11-19-98Water down some tempera paint or use liquid water colors. Sharpen the end of a large feather and dip it in the paint to write as the Pilgrims did, with a turkey feather! Date: 11-7-98Thankful Turkey Have children paint small paper plate brown-cut out face and waddle of the turkey and the children can glue these on. Add feet and wiggle eyes. Give each child 4 colored feathers to cut out. After they have cut these out ask the child to tell you something she is thankful for and write them on the feathers. On the body of the turkey write I am thankful for....(It's fun to hear their answers)! Date: 10-25-98For Thanksgiving use Pinecones and construction paper in all colors to make feathers. Use some brown paper to make feet for your turkey. You will lay the pinecone on its side and glue the feet to the bottom. ( It will remain on its side) Have the children cut or you can precut feathers out of the construction paper. Glue the feathers to the pedals of the pinecones and make a beak. You now have a turkey. 10-25-98 Name: Sandi 10-15-98 Name: Marilyn 9-14-98 Start looking right now at your dollar stores, Walmarts, Michaels, Pic-n-Saves, etc. for Thanksgiving cookie cutters. Have the children dip them into fall colored paint and press them onto paper to create wonderful prints! You can also do this on butcher paper to create a neat background for a Thanksgiving bulletin board. 8-8-98 Name: Marilyn E-Mail: Cabana 94@aol.com Take thoroughly cleaned and dried corn cobs and dip them into different fall colored paints. Let the children roll the corn cobs over white paper to make a very special print. 8-8-98 Name: Marilyn E-Mail: Cabana 94@aol.com After explaining to your children how native Americans used roots, berries and vegetable liquids to dye their cloths, have the children experience the same thing. Boil up some beets, some blueberries, some broccoli, other dark green vegetables, and save the liquid that they boiled in. Make sure the liquid has cooled and then let the children use this colored liquid to paint on pieces of white cotton material. Explain to them that this is how colors were added to costumes. Name: Laura E-Mail: LRaeM123 Stained glass turkeys You will need brown paint, a paper plate, 3 large sheets of brown construction paper, orange construction paper, red construction paper and various colors of tissue paper and glue. To make the turkey you will need to cut five large feathers out of brown construction paper, then approximately 1 inch in from edge of feather, cut the center out. cut feather shapes out of tissue paper, glue to one side of feather. Paint the paper plate brown. Cut turkey head out and attach to paper plate. cut beak, and feet from the orange paper. red is for around the beak. These turkeys look very nice attached to a glass door so the sun can shine through. Name: Mary E-Mail: wmwolfe@ct2.nai.net Use multi-colored feathers or feather shapes with toothpicks or craft stick attached to them. Make a turkey head and attach a stick. Insert the feathers and head into a large potato. Makes a cute centerpiece. Name: Laura E-Mail: MamPaBear@aol.com Multi-colored Turkey hand Paint the child's palm brown and then paint each finger using one color for each finger: red, green, yellow, and orange. Have child press hand on piece of paper. After the paint dries you can add the eye, beak, and that little red dangly thing under the beak. Another version to Ricks is to paint the palm and thumb brown. Then across the fingers with red yellow and green. Instead of each finger a different. color- all fingers are three colors. I wish I could show you one, they are really cute!(teacher of toddlers) Name: Linda E-Mail: LLJRSKI@aol.com "Spice Turkeys"--trace child's hand. Let them "paint" glue on palm and fingers w/brush. Let them sprinkle on different Thanksgiving spices on fingers--nutmeg, salt, pepper, cinnamon, allspice, or the like. Let them smell the scents of a Thanksgiving dinner! (Good for teaching the 5 senses, too.) Name: Maureen E-Mail: Farrm@AOL.com With all the great painting ideas we use at this time of year. Always put a squirt of dish detergent in the paint. It helps with the clean up. The brushes, sponges and children's hands clean up with ease. They do not need any extra soap. Name: Dawn E-Mail: dawnklass@Hotmail.com Native American Vests Have children choose a Native American name to use in the classroom during the course of study relating to Native Americans (ie Dancing Raccoon, Little Bear, Pretty Flower). Using markers and t-shirt paint, have children illustrate their name on burlap vests. Native American symbols can also be used to decorate the vests. Burlap that is purchased by the yard works great. Simply cut the doubled burlap into 12" pieces and make an opening for the child's head. Cut out a turkey body from brown construction paper or tag board. Then let the students use fabric, wall paper samples, construction paper, glitter, sequins, and other craft items to dress their turkey for Thanksgiving. After their turkey is dressed, they can dictate a story about how Mr. Turkey convinced the family not to eat him for Thanksgiving dinner. Send home a pattern of a turkey with your kiddo's. Invite the child's family to decorate the turkey with glitter, macaroni, feathers, paint, sequins, etc. When you get them back display them with pride! Give an award to each family such as Most Colorful, Silliest Turkey, Yummiest Turkey, etc. Name: Lorri E-Mail: LB31264@aol.com Take an uncooked potato and have children insert featers on one side being careful to choose the feathers with the firmest "stem". Glue on wiggle eyes. Use red felt for a "gobble'. Fold yellow or orange diamond shape cutout to make beak.. Insert 4 toothpicks in bottom half to make him stand. CUTE CUTE CUTE! Parents and kids love them. Experiment with materials. Name: Nancy E-Mail: Yillibcire@aol.com "In step with Thanksgiving!" For wall mural or individual purposes: Draw outline of Turkey, side view. Take old, used shoes, have paper plates of tempra ready for dipping. After the kids have colored in their Turkeys, have them take the shoes, dip in paint, and press paint for Turkey feathers. This is adorable as a bullitan board or can be laminated and made into placemats for Thanksgiving. Name: Jill E-mail: JKF0708@aol.com We love painting at the easel..so for Thanksgiving, we make turkeys. The children make a big brown "peanut" shapes and peach bird legs. Then we put on BIG google eyes and peach fun foam for the beak. I cut them out and for the feathers, I use that wide paper ribbon in big loops (six) stapled out of the back. I use brick red, natural, and cream. That twisty ribbon is great, but it takes forever to untwist. The turkeys turn out really cute. Name: Pleasant E-Mail: plesanth@access.mountain.net Cut feather shapes from sponges. Be sure to vary the size and include the small stem on the end. Use these to sponge paint with fall colors on large sheets of paper. The children enjoy filling up whole pages with bright feathery colors! Name: Rick E-Mail: Rodrigo66@aol.com. Multi-colored Turkey hand Paint the child's palm brown and then paint each finger using one color for each finger: red, green, yellow, and orange. Have child press hand on peice of paper. After the paint dries you can add the eye, beak, and that little red dangly thing under the beak. Keepsake version: Instead of using paper and tempra paint use fabric paint and have kids press on a piece of cloth that you trimmed the edges with zig-zig scissors. Write "Thanksgiving 1997" on the bottom to make a craft that is colorful and keepable!!! Paper Bag Turkeys Give each child a brown paper grocery bag (any size) and several sheets of newspaper. Have the children crumple the sheets of newspaper and stuff them into their bags until the bags are half full. Twist the bags closed and tie them around the middle with pieces of yarn. To make tails for their paper bag turkeys, have the children make several cuts from the top edges of their bags down to the yarn ties. Let the children let the children paint their turkey tails. Then give each child a precut turkey head shape to decorate. Attach the head shapes to the front of the bags to complete the turkeys. Collage Turkeys Cut turkey shapes out of construction paper. Give each child a turkey shape and scraps of colorful construction paper or fabric. Have them glue the pieces of construction paper or fabric on their turkey shapes to make colored feathers. Let them use crayons or markers to finish the turkey's features. Hand Turkeys Here is a new twist to an old activity. Get a big piece of butcher paper and let the children trace each other's hands. Show the children how their hands look like turkeys. Let them decorate their hand turkeys any way they want. You can even let them glue real feathers to their finger "feathers". Display your mural with pride!
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