Need Thanksgiving Craft Idea

kpadalik

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I know that everyone here is uber-creative, so I am hoping to get some ideas. My daughter's elementary school's PTA organization is having their fundraiser Nov 7th. Instead of sending home the usual magazine to order expensive wrapping paper, we decided to use a more interactive and hands on approach this year that may be a little more cost effective for people. We are doing a craft fair. It will be held in the cafeteria and there will be booths where the students and parents can (for a nominal fee) do little make/takes, crafts, etc. We are just now getting people signed up for this. I have volunteered to do a craft booth. I have to come up with a little project for the kids to do at my booth. One mom is doing stamped cards, one mom is doing candy cane ornaments. There are more, I just don't know what they are doing yet. I figured I could do something for Thanksgiving/Fall. I thought about turkey magnets or picture frame magnets. Does anybody have any GREAT and WONDERFULLY UNIQUE ideas? :goodvibes It has to be something that is easy to assemble/make (probably under 3-5 minutes per student). I will buy all of my supplies for the project and reimburse myself with whatever money my project makes. It is for K-5 grades and I was hoping to charge $2 per student for my project. Whatever extra money there is goes to the school. I think that if the project is a good one that can be kept as a "keepsake" by the parents, that a lot of money can be made at my table. I also want parents to think "oh, how neat" or "oh, how cute". I kind of want to avoid the whole foam project thing b/c it's just been used for so many things. I don't mind premaking elements of the project (gluing, cutting, etc). It just has to be easy for the kids to assemble. Any help would be SOOOOO greatly appreciated. Thank you!!!!:)
 
How about using the large binder clips to make picture holder/placecard holders. We are having a swap that has many examples of them. You take 1 sheet of scrapbook paper and cut it into to 2 by 3 inch squares to cover so each paper can make 24 clips, the clips themselves may be the most expensive part. I used a glue stick to cover them. If you got a stampo that said thanks you could have them stamp that on another sheet of paper (again small squares) and then attach it with a ribbon and add a couple of fall colored flowers. Or you could do them in Christmas color and have a christmas stamp. It wouldn't take them too long and could be about 50-70 cents per project depending on the price you can get clips for. Staples sells them 12 for 3.99 or 35 cents each. As I said we are doing a swap with many example posted on the swap board.

Rebecca
 
The easiest thing for Thanksgiving is turkey hands. Get a big roll of brown craft paper and cut it into squares for easy handling. Have the kids trace their open hands on the paper, cut it out and have googly eyes and feathers to decorate.

Another one I did for out Christmas festival was paper reindeer. I precut bow ties/hairbows (use the same pattern) out of wrapping paper. And precut the the reindeer heads (they looked like butternut squash shapes) out of brown craft paper. The kids glued dotted (less messy then glue) the googly eyes and the bow tie on the deer, drew the face on and I had brown pipe cleaners for antlers. I used 1 pipe cleaner for each reindeer, the kids twisted it around a pencil bent it in 1/2 and taped it to the back of the deer.
Those I have, so I can snap a few pics after I take the kids to school.

You can buy the glue dots through Oriental Trading and are fairly inexpensive. Also look into Oriental Trading for crafts. They give a break down at to how expensive it is for each one. I usually stick to ones under $1.00. I just got their catalog yesterday and they have some really cute crafts this year. They have a cute Elf face, $3.99 for a dozen so it's only 34¢ per craft, you could get a good profit there.
 
here's the reindeer. They are much cuter with googly eyes but I ran out.


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BOY

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GIRL
 



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