Thanksgiving Place Cards
By: Amanda Formaro
Difficulty: Easy
Age: 7 and up
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Parental supervision is recommended
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Give your dinner guests a holiday surprise with these cut Thanksgiving place cards. This craft is fun and easy, however don’t eat the embellishments, they might taste like glue.
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What you'll need:
- Paper napkin in fall colors or orange construction paper
- Small paper clips
- Apple, any color
- Almond, with or without the shell
- Peanut in the shell
- One Lifesaver candy
- Two small wiggle eyes
- Yellow construction paper
- Hot glue gun
- White craft glue
- Marker
How to make it:
- Hold the almond point down and use white craft glue to attach eyes on rounded part. Let glue dry.
- Use hot glue gun to glue the Lifesaver to front of apple. Don't use white craft glue as it will cause the candy to start to liquify and run down the apple (glue the Lifesaver on the apple's shoulders).
- With hot glue gun, glue almond to Lifesaver (covering the hole, point down) and let dry.
- Glue peanut below almond for turkey wattle.
- Unfold napkin half way, then fold accordion style. If you don't have a napkin, you can use a piece of construction paper. Trim off about 3" from the long end of the paper, making the measurement approximately 6" x 11".
- Put paper clip in center of folded napkin.
- Pull ends of folded napkin together to make a fan. Secure with paper clip at top. Sit napkin behind turkey.
- Unbend end of one paper clip and insert into apple.
- Cut a piece of yellow construction paper into a rectangle to make a place card. Write your guest’s name on the place card.
- Use inserted paper clip to hold place card or glue a toothpick to the back of the card and insert into the top of the apple.
Notes:
- Do not allow children to eat the candy or nuts, simply throw them away. The apple is still edible, just cut away the small area where the glue was.
- Making the fan can be difficult for smaller kids, give them a helping hand with this step.
- Use decorative scissors or pinking shears to cut the place cards for a prettier look.
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