A Thanksgiving Table Your Kids Will Be Thankful For

by Happenings of a Housewife

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It's almost Thanksgiving! You've planned your menu, your decorations are ready, you are frantically cleaning your house. But what are you going to do with the kids?!
Don't you worry. I have some great ideas for you!

a thanksgiving table your kids will be thankful for, painted furniture

We had early Thanksgiving at our house this past Sunday. I was wondering what to do with the kids table. I knew I needed to give them some entertainment and of course I wanted to make something super cute! I started with a long table and covered it with brown butcher paper. I taped it onto the bottom so that it would stay in place for all those little wigglers.

I picked up the paper at the dollar store in the Christmas mailing section.

I found some free Thanksgiving printables on Pinterest that I printed out to put on the table.

Then the idea struck to make a cute crayon holder. We had some cut branches in the garage we had been using for a few other projects. I used a chop saw

to cut three different sizes of rings.

I hot glued them together to make the form of a turkey.

Then I drilled 7 holes, staggered. 4 in the back and 3 in the front.

I cut the corner off of an orange piece of cardstock for the beak and then freehand cut a red piece to hang off the beak. (I googled it... it's correct term is a snood. Who knew?) I grabbed some googly eyes and glued all the pieces onto the smallest circle to make a face.