Apple Collage
Quick to make but great fun for younger children, this apple collage makes a super autumn or healthy eating craft.
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Harvest Crafts
Here's our fun collection of Harvest and Harvest Festival crafts for kids - we hope there is something for all ages!
Apple Prints
Instead of potato printing with your kids, why not try your hand at these apple prints? Experiment with different types of apple and you might find some surprises: did you know that in some apples a star shape is formed when you cut through the centre of the apple perpendicular to the core?
Apple Tree Handprint Painting
Children love to paint apple trees and here is a fun, messy way to do it!
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Cornucopia Badge
Our badge is fun way to use up left over scraps of polymer clay. A perfect craft for older children at Thanksgiving or Harvest time.
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Cornucopia Collage
Younger children will enjoy practising their cutting and sticking skills to make this very effective cornucopia collage for Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival.
Cornucopia Craft
Here's a very quick and easy cornucopia craft for kids at Thanksgiving - fun for preschoolers.
Glittery Fruits Craft
These pretty glittery fruits will make a welcome display when autumn comes, and could even be used on the Christmas tree!
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Harvest Basket
This Harvest Basket is an adaptable craft which can be used to make a free-standing decoration for your mantelpiece or sideboard, a greetings card, or perhaps a set of place-card holders for your Thanksgiving or Harvest table.
Harvest Basket Craft
This is a simple and quick craft but it provides the excuse for getting out the playdough to make the vegetables to fill your harvest basket!
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Harvest Loaf
Here are instructions for children to make and bake a harvest loaf out of salt dough - a fun craft for Thanksgiving or Harvest Festival.
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Make A Scarecrow
You don't need a vegetable patch to make a scarecrow this autumn - just make one for fun with your kids!
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Paper Plate Harvest Basket
Here's an idea for a quick paper plate harvest basket that the children can paint and cut out. Fill it with our vegetable clipart!
Paper Plate Pumpkin
Young children love cutting and sticking so this simple craft is bound to be a hit. Leave it plain for harvest or add a black face to turn it into a Jack O'Lantern for Halloween.
Paper Plate Scarecrow
Our cute paper plate scarecrow craft includes all the elements loved by young children, painting, cutting and sticking.
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Potato Man
These make a super Thanksgiving or Harvest decoration, or are a fun craft for a "healthy eating" study or just for a rainy afternoon!
Potato Print Tractor
This potato print tractor is a fun painting activity all year round, although perhaps particularly appropriate at Harvest or Thanksgiving. It also provides a good opportunity to talk about shapes and sizes with young children.
Print a Corn on the Cob
Use this fun bubble wrap printing technique to make a corn on the cob picture. Perfect for Harvest Festival, Thanksgiving, Kwanzaa or perhaps a farming or food theme.
Pumpkin Seed Necklace
This pumpkin seed necklace, done in Halloween colours, makes a great accessory for Halloween and perfect for a witch's costume! Alternatively, paint in more autumnal colours and make it as an autumn/fall craft.
Salt Dough Apple Wreath
This salt dough apple wreath and its matching place card holders look very pretty displayed on a Thanksgiving or Harvest table, are sure to be brought out year after year. You could of course adapt the craft for other fruit and vegetables. Make sure you apply varnish if you want them to last!
Sweetcorn Collage
Here is an easy Thanksgiving craft to enjoy with all ages of children.
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Sweetcorn Fuse Bead Pattern
Make this corn on the cob fuse bead design using two shades of yellow (or orange) for the corn, and two shades of green for the outer leaves. It makes a fun badge or "pin" or table decoration, and looks great in a Thanksgiving mobile, too.
