Thanksgiving Food Crafts
These Thanksgiving food crafts are so much fun! You can enlist your little ones to help make these tasty treats this holiday season.
As you begin preparing for Thanksgiving with your preschoolers, be sure to include some fun food crafts. Your kids can help you make them. Then, serve them for an afternoon snack or save them for your holiday dinner table.
Thanksgiving Food Crafts
Whether you’re looking for a snack to make with your preschoolers or you’re looking for a family-friendly recipe for your Thanksgiving table, you don’t want to miss any of the fun ideas on the list below.
Pilgrim Hat Cookies
These sweet Pilgrim hat cookies are the perfect choice to tempt the little ones (and the young at heart!) this Thanksgiving. They are easy to do and will have them wondering where they all disappeared to.
Pumpkin Cheese Ball
Enjoy this savory pumpkin shaped cheese ball appetizer can double as your centerpiece.
Turkey Pudding Cups
No-bake turkey cookie pudding cups are a sweet treat for Thanksgiving or Fall Harvest party.
Pilgrim Hat Appetizers
The Pigs in a Pilgrim hat have a nice crisp outside area with a spicy center that the grown ups will like. To make a batch for the kids, just use hot dogs instead of the sausage if your child doesn’t like spicy food.
Rice Krispie Turkey Treats
These adorable rice krispies turkey treats are easy to make, no baking required!
Healthy Turkey Snack For Kids
Kids will have fun creating a healthy turkey snack using peppers, pretzels and a small sandwich that will make them gobble this Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies
Thanksgiving turkey cookies are easy to make and use your child’s hand as the cookie template!
Turkey-Shaped Turkey Sandwich
The kids will love these turkey-shaped sandwiches for Thanksgiving lunch!
Marshmallow Turkey Cookies
The only problem with these marshmallow turkey cookies is keeping the kids from digging in before it's time for dessert.
Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies
These fun and easy Pilgrim’s Hat and Turkey cookies are a great treat that children will enjoy on Thanksgiving.
Pumpkin Pie Sugar Cookie
While they look like little pumpkin pies, they taste like a regular yummy sugar cookies. These pumpkin pie sugar cookies are perfect for a special treat for the kids on Thanksgiving!
Pilgrims Hat Cookies
Celebrate Thanksgiving with simple pilgrims hat cookies which are fun to make and delicious to eat. This recipe uses marshmallows and fudge striped cookies.
Reese's Turkey Treats
Make these Reese’s turkey treats with your little ones or make them on your own and surprise them on Thanksgiving Day.
Turkey sugar cookies
This adorable turkey sugar cookie recipe with directions will help you add a cute touch to those kid’s tables.
Cute Turkey Chocolate Pies
Simple turkey chocolate pies are a fun little Thanksgiving treat that kids especially are sure to gobble up!
Festive Thanksgiving Snack
Make a healthy turkey snack using cheese sticks, beef sticks and pears.
Pumpkin Pie Cheese Crackers
This pumpkin pie cheese crackers Thanksgiving appetizer is too cute and savory not to make for a pre-meal snack.
Thanksgiving Brownie Cups
These Thanksgiving brownie cups are super easy to make and are so fun to serve. They always receive rave reviews at our holiday get-togethers.
Thanksgiving Sour Cream Sugar Cookies
If you’re looking for a recipe for perfect sugar cookies this holiday season, then we’ve got you’ve covered! These delicious but easy Thanksgiving sour cream sugar cookies with a cream cheese frosting are light and fluffy, and are perfect for cookie cutters!
Rolo Turkey Pretzels
Create these adorable Rolo pretzel turkey desserts with the help of your children. Edible eyeballs really make these gobblers a hoot.
Easy Turkey Cupcakes
Enjoying baking these moist chocolate cupcakes decorated to look just like a turkey.
Turkey Snack Cups for Kids
These turkey snack cups are a great activity to have the kids make while they wait for the main Thanksgiving meal.
PRESCHOOL BOOKS ABOUT THANKSGIVING
Fill your book basket with a great collection of Thanksgiving picture books. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
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How to Catch a Turkey – A turkey is running loose in a school right before a Thanksgiving play. Can YOU help catch it? Follow along as students turn their school upside down trying to catch the turkey, ending with a twist that ensures no turkeys are harmed (or eaten!).
Turkey Trouble – Turkey is in trouble. Bad trouble. The kind of trouble where it’s almost Thanksgiving . . . and you’re the main course. But Turkey has an idea–what if he doesn’t look like a turkey? What if he looks like another animal instead?
10 Fat Turkeys – Girls and boys will gobble up this hilarious story about ten goofy turkeys and their silly antics: swinging from a vine, strutting on a boar, doing a noodle dance, and more.
Teaching Resources
Do you smell that? Is it fall or your new pumpkin pie play dough kit. This homemade pumpkin scented play dough kit is perfect as a party favor, holiday goody bag or even a fun activity at home.
Welcome autumn and encourage creativity in your children with this fall-themed felt creations busy bag. Practice counting and exploring patterns as you put on the turkey’s feathers.