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Holiday PlanningHoliday Craftts - Thanksgiving and Christmas Decoration Ideas
by:
Brigitte Smith
Thanksgiving is a fantastic holiday! What a spiritual renewal to take a day to reflect over the past year just about just how good God has been to you and your family, to give you harvest and shelter, health and hope. To get the most out of this joyous occasion, do several holiday crafts with your children. These days, Thanksgiving often gets squeezed out by Hallowe'en's spooky decorations and the lights and gala of Christmas. With the following holiday crafts, your home can be adorned for this quieter but important celebration.
Turkeys are a natural select for decorations. A familiar project at this time of year is for a child to trace about her hand and do the consequent drawing into a turkey. The thumb is the head and the fingers are the tail feathers all displayed. Piece galore of the turkeys that are raised for food are now the domestic white variety, the turkeys consumed by the Pilgrims at the 1st Thanksgiving were the wild brown ones. The tail feathers on a wild turkey are brown, but they are iridescent. catching light and appearance to be multi-colored. This is why children color the tail feathers in bright colors.
The turkey's head has a wattle under the beak. This is a vertical flap of loose skin that is red colored. Be sure to draw this in order to do the hand turkey look like a turkey. Add skinny legs and bird feet. Once
done, the children can cut out the turkeys and hang them on the wall. It's actually cute to do a whole flock of these turkeys in the sizes of all the hands in the family. The little hand shapes are particularly sweet.
Another good turkey decoration to do once
devising Thanksgiving holiday crafts is a turkey door decoration. Do a brown construction paper body and head of a turkey. Now do a large number of colored feather shapes. Each family member writes on a feather thing
he or she is grateful for before attaching as part of the turkey's tail. Repeat until all the feathers are used, and hang the turkey on the front door to greet visitors with a message of gratitude. Do a sign to accompany the turkey that says "Give thanks to the Lord for He is good!" or just "Be thankful!" or "We're grateful for you!" or any you like.
Children love devising construction paper chains. To further decorate the home for Thanksgiving, let them do a paper chain in fall colors as one of their holiday crafts. Exploitation 9 by 12 inch construction paper, cut the paper in half across the long side and cut the halves into one inch thick six inch long strips. Use a stapling machine to attach the ends of the strip into a circle. Loop the next strip into the circle and staple it. Continue the process alternate colors of brown, red, yellow, and orange. Once
the chains are long, you can drap them on
the ceiling or step rail. If you don't do the door turkey, the children can write thing
they're grateful for on each strip of paper before adding it to the chain.
Thanksgiving is too good a holiday to let the another much commercial holidays crowd it out. By devising holiday crafts to decorate the home for Thanksgiving, you can support this day special, too. The extended family, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc., wish be pleased to see the holiday crafts the young ones have ready-made to decorate the home and do it cheerful for their visit.
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