Easy Craft Idea

If you want to make easy Thanksgiving crafts, the choices you have are really endless when you take the time to think about what you have in mind and then experiment around with different things you have around the house to create your easy Thanksgiving crafts.  If you are not especially creative in this area, just go on the Internet and search for “easy Thanksgiving crafts”.  You will find all sorts of ideas to try.  We’ll give you a couple here to try.

For school-age children, it is fun to make easy Thanksgiving crafts that explore the reason for the season – giving thanks!  First, you need various colors of construction paper.  Cut out various leaf shapes from the paper.  Have your child write things on the leaves that they are thankful for.  Then cut out the inner upper half of a paper plate to form a half circle.  Just below the bottom of the half circle, write the words “I Am Thankful For” and then have your child glue the leaves all around the cut-out.  Then you can hang the thankful wreath wherever you want to!

Other easy Thanksgiving crafts include this one.  What you will need is brown, orange, red, and yellow construction paper, scissors, a marker, a pencil, and some glue.  Trace your child’s footprint on the brown construction paper.  Do not trace their individual toes.  Then, from the other colors, trace around their hand with it laid out and fingers slightly splayed.  Make at least 6 of these, if not more. 

If your child is able to, have them cut out their hand and foot prints.  Cut two strips of the brown construction paper and fold accordion style for the legs.  Use the yellow to make some feet for your turkey.  Cut out a small triangle for the turkey’s wattle.  Now it’s time to put your turkey together!

The heel of the foot print will be your turkey’s head.  Arrange the hand prints behind the turkey and glue into place.  Draw a face onto your turkey and glue the red wattle just below the eyes.  Glue on the feet to the legs and then the legs to the body.  After the glue is dry, you have another of the many easy Thanksgiving crafts we have found that can help you commemorate your child’s growing – especially if you do this craft from year to year!  Don’t forget to write the date and your child’s age on the back!

Hi Everyone! I’m so happy that finally I’d be able to share all my craft ideas and links to all of the crafty lovers out there. I do hope to get a lot of fun ideas from you too and for those who just love to read on the blog sites…… we might just be able to convince you to try some of the things we do. So, ……. happy reading and posting everyone!

Summer in the Philippines is really something to look forward to. The beach is a wonderful place to hang out and spend those awful hot months. In the next few weeks, I’ll be posting interesting pix of some of the projects I made for the summer. I start of with this really simple canvass bag I bought in one of the souvenir shops in Cebu. It’s actually made by a company called Island Souvenirs (which I may add, makes wonderful souvenir shirts). I just had the urge to decorate it with trinkets of sorts, beads of colorful designs and TaDa……. I got a real beach bag! Just did simple running stitches over the letters to cover it with sequined beads and it looks fantastic. For the hanging trinkets, I had some old acrylic based clam designs (in blue) and blended it with coco beads. “Coco” beads are indigent to some islands in the Philippines as they come from real coconut wood. I guess you can find it in many different sizes and shapes in craft stores. I love using this stuff for many of my accessories. I also used some shells that I got along the beach. Moving along the souvenir shops, I found some polished but natural looking wooden beads. I covered it with ordinary thread, actually, more like crochet thread and found that you can make a very unique design of beads.

Well, hope it this will give you some ideas on how to make your own beach bag. By the weekend, I’ll be able to finish up the beaded slippers to match the bag. I’m looking forward to my next rendezvous at the beach with a total crafty accent.

Here are some samples of “coco” beads in their polished and natural colors.

Notice the apple green beads? These are natural polished coco beads covered in thread.

Some of the accessories I made in the past with the use of coco beads mixed with some other media.