People have a ton of tasks on their minds during Thanksgiving: It might be preparing a delicious family meal, getting their nails done, purchasing new clothes, and cleaning the house. But you’ve got to let kids in on the fun too. One such way is encouraging them to indulge in crafts. Here are 10 simple and popular Thanksgiving craft ideas to consider.

Leafy Friends
Ask the kids to collect pressed leaves from the garden.

Help them cut each leaf into the shape of an animal or fish. Next, hand them white and black paint (or makers) to draw faces on these leaves. Finally, you can help them stick the leaves on one string and put it up at home.

Painted Rocks
To ace this craft idea, kids will have to collect small or medium-sized pebble-shaped rocks from the lawn, wash them, and paint the stones in the color of their choice. They can also paint letters like “Happy Thanksgiving” on the surface, making the rocks look adorable.

Paper Flowers
You don’t have to worry about buying flowers at home. Your kids can make them at home. All they need are a few items you ought to find at home. These include scrunchy paper towels (or recyclable paper), chopsticks, craft glue, and yarn to put together this floral arrangement.

Paper Plate Turkeys
This craft hack is worth a shot if you have a bunch of paper plates at home. Kids can paint these plates to represent a turkey. They’d need one painted plate and other paper cutouts to depict facial elements like circles for the eyes, a triangle nose, and a deflated balloon-like shape for the tongue.

Thanksgiving Balloon
Help the kids inflate a colored balloon of their choice and ask them to write a Thanksgiving phrase on it. Next, they should tie colorful ribbons to the balloon. Then, you can wrap this craft around chairs or doors to amp up the look of your home. Finally, consider putting a small gift-wrapped treat into the balloon, and ask the kids to burst the balloon to get it.

Turkey Pinecones
Pinecones look lovely by themselves. But your kids can make them look better with this simple craft hack. Help them decorate it with ribbons and recyclable paper to make the cone look turkey-like. You can find several images with steps to help get this done on the internet.

Thumbprint Turkeys
Another simple craft idea to try is thumbprint turkeys. You should pass paper cards to the kids at home and direct them on making turkey imprints with their thumbs. They can start with the head and gradually move on to the feathers. Lastly, the kids must use a button to create the eye and draw two lines below the turkey for feet.

Coloring Pages
You can engross the kids at home while you tend to other guests using coloring pages. You get several pages that can be printed from the vicinity of your home. Pick the shapes you’d think work for Thanksgiving and ask the kids to add color to those designs. You can even hang these up as decor once the coloring pages are complete.

Pie-shaped Garlands
You don’t have to use actual pie for this. To put the Thanksgiving craft idea together, you will need old paper, string, glue sticks, watercolors, and scissors. Moreover, instead of using watercolors, you can hand the kids printed paper with various shapes to make the activity easier.

Turkey Door
Get your guests into the Thanksgiving spirit right when they approach your door. You’ll have to help your kids wrap the door with brown paper (unless the door is already brown). Then stick two white paper plates with two smaller plates colored black to represent the eyes. Eventually, they can make a yellow triangle paper cut out and a pink tongue-shaped cutout for the mouth.