
As you’re planning your Sunday or mid-week lessons for the Thanksgiving season, here are 7 fun craft ideas for your kidmin that help kids develop an attitude of gratitude! More than just turkey coloring pages or a creative art project, these Thanksgiving-themed crafts will help kids focus their hearts and minds on being grateful!
- A Giant Group Poster – I saw this idea from Go Curriculum, and it seems so much fun! You just print a large poster of a coloring page at your local print store, then lay it out on a table and invite kids to color as a group! Find more details and download a free colorable poster from Go here.
- Gratitude Jars – These are a classic November idea. Give each child a jar or container of some kind, and let them decorate it. Provide a simple label and gratitude prompts like these for kids to cut and place in their jars. Each day, they pull out a new gratitude prompt and talk about it as a family. Or throughout the month, they write down things they are thankful for each day and fill up the jar with gratitude! These plastic jars work great, and you can use some fun Thanksgiving stickers to decorate them! You can always find a Gratitude Jar kit on Oriental Trading too!
- Grateful Turkey – Provide kids with the body of a turkey on paper, then they add the feathers – each feather with something they are grateful for written inside! This might be a coloring sheet, or a low-prep printable craft that kids can color, cut, and assemble themselves!
- Thankful Spinner Wheel – A different spin (see what I did there?) on the last craft! Instead of a turkey with thankful feathers, this Thankful Spinner Wheel idea invites kids to write down a variety of things they are thankful for from different categories. Add the brad fastener, and it’s a fun conversation piece for them to take home! See an example here.
- Gratitude Tree – Similar to the Gratitude Jar, but kids write what they are thankful for on a fall leave and attach it to a tree in this craft! You can invite kids to tie their leaves onto a real stick or use a ready-made printable like this one to make things extra easy on you and them.
- Gratitude Activity Placemat – Invite kids to create a special placemat they can use during Thanksgiving dinner! Either provide large construction paper and decorating supplies, or use a free printable like this one. Kids draw fall items (leaves, turkeys, pumpkins, etc.) and write or draw pictures of things/people they are grateful for. You can also encourage them to include a Bible verse to two about thankfulness.
- Coloring/Activity Pages with Purpose – Of course, it’s hard to go wrong with a classic coloring page or activity page. From word searches to verse coloring pages focused on thankfulness to fun fall mazes, you can find lots of Thanksgiving coloring and activity pages online! Some of our favorites includes these Fall Activity Books that share the gospel (for younger and older kids), this Gratitude Activity Bundle featuring cards and a variety of activity pages, this simple Thanksgiving Activity Bundle, this Thanksgiving Activity Bundle that includes a devotional and playdough mats, these Thanksgiving/Fall Coloring Pages featuring cute pages and Bible verses, and this Thanksgiving Color By Code worksheet that helps kids puzzle out a Bible verse to find the right colors!
And don’t forget about the fun things your families can do at home too! Check out:
- Give Thanks Scripture Scratch-Off
- Family Thankfulness Calendar
- Fall into Thankfulness Family Devotions (for preschool and elementary)
- 30 Days of Thankfulness for Kids
- Gobble up Gratitude Family Devo
Find all of our Thanksgiving resources, including full lessons, here!
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