Acorn People Craft - Kids Thanksgiving Crafts

Kids Thanksgiving Crafts


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thanksgiving kid’s crafts

thanksgiving kid’s crafts

thanksgiving kid’s crafts


Acorn People - Kid's Thanksgiving Crafts


This is a fun autumn craft for children, kindergarten and up. The younger the child, the more help will be needed. Those without the fine motor skills to draw the little faces, may enjoy directing your drawing and gluing the acorns and leaves.

 

This acorn craft makes a great companion activity to a story or poem about the mighty oak and its humble beginnings. It also is a fun activity to a lesson about the oak tree and the uses of acorns in nature (such as how squirrels gather and store them) and by American Indians and other peoples. Check with your local children's librarian for book suggestions. 


Supplies For This Kid's Thanksgiving Craft:


  • Acorns with their caps (loose caps can be glued). The various shapes will determine the shapes of the acorn people's faces.
  • Fine tip markers.
  • Glue.
  • Wooden clothespins: With springs or the old fashioned, wooden, duckbill type, which are slightly bigger.
  • Autumn leaves: These should be small and a bit shorter than the sticks or clothespins because they will be the acorn people's dresses.
  • Optional: Tiny twigs (for adding hands and feet if you choose).

 


Directions For This Kid's Thanksgiving Crafts:


Before adding the bodies, we'll first make the acorn people's faces. Here's how:

 

  1. Check the caps on the acorns to make sure they won't easily fall off.
  2. Glue any loose caps so that the acorn people can keep their hats.
  3. Using fine tip markers, draw eyes, eyebrows, nose and mouth.
  4. Using a fine tip marker, add any other features you want, such as a mustache, glasses, etc.*
  5. After adding a face to the acorn, glue the acorn to the clothespin near the top, so that none of the clothespin rises above the acorn.

*When drawing the faces, you can make the expressions as cute or silly as you like. Give each of the acorn people his or her own personality.


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Variation: Children may enjoy creating the facial features with natural items such as seeds from plants gathered on a nature hike.


If you want to give your acorn people arms that stick out from the leaf dresses, use the twigs and glue to create hands with fingers and arms. Then glue onto the craft stick or clothespin before adding the leaf.


Next, glue the leaf to the front of the acorn person's stick or clothespin body.


Pants and shirt variation:


Using the old fashioned clothespin, attach the acorn so the clothespin facing in the direction that allows the two "legs" to appear side by side. Cut out a shirt and pair of pants from a leaf. Glue them onto the clothespin.

 

When the acorn people are completed, the clothespin legs will help them to stand up, but it's a good idea to prop them up against something so that they will not fall over. Also, if you want these to last longer than the leaves will, coat the leaves first with a leaf preservative (many crafts stores off and online carry these).

 



 



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Fun kids crafts starts with a very good selection of Bible crafts. These crafts also include "Christian" crafts to teach the kids real "Christian" behavior. What I especially find handy is the pre-school craft that is also included in these bible crafts.

In the section with birthday gifts for dad, there is a really easy and fun craft that will be ideal for father's day. It boils down to "Dad, I'm nuts about you." Do have a look at it; even the little pre-schoolers will be able to do it with a little help. That is not all, there is still a whole category of father's day crafts that you'll love!

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Painting
Crafts using grass
Edible crafts
No glue crafts
----and many, many more

2. I've already mentioned the Father's day crafts

3. Fun crafts:
  • Using rocks
  • From different countries
  • Woodworking
  • Candles
  • Summer crafts
  • Winter crafts
  • ---to many to mention them all

4. Halloween crafts (I can't wait for Halloween so we can do these with our granddaughter)

5. Pre-school crafts

6. Thanksgiving crafts

7. Christmas crafts

8. Mother's day crafts

9. Valentine's day crafts

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