Kid-Friendly Thanksgiving Table

This Kid-Friendly Thanksgiving table is bright and fun. I have never done a Thanksgiving Kid Table before. I had so much fun putting this table together.

The colors all coordinate from the fantastic paper products to the turkey banner to the turkey centerpiece. All of the little details are cute but perfectly functional for little rowdy hands.

The center of the table is brown craft wrapping paper. Totally fun and forgiving if it gets a wee bit messy. The place mats are these fun activity sheets.

Since we have brown craft paper and activity place mats, there had to be crayons. Then the crayons had to had there own little white pails.

The paper products are wackadoodle amazing. Who says paper products have to be boring? Not this girl. I chose coordinating colors in a variety of solids and prints. Pattern matching is kind of my favorite thing to do.

 

 

Setting every so cheerfully on top of those fabulous paper products is the cutest rock turkey name setting.

Since it is Thanksgiving and we are talking about the kid table, there has to be more turkeys. Including this amazing turkey pinata that I used as a centerpiece.

I also painted some small pumpkins to sit by the turkey.

I also strung up my paint chip Turkey Banner and a cute string of felt leaves.

My favorite part is our family's grateful paper chain. I cut so very many strips of paper strips. SO VERY MANY. Then on each strip we wrote things that we are grateful for.

I loved reading through the things that they wrote. 

I hung up the giant grateful paper chain right above the table. 

Now all that we need is for Thanksgiving to get here and for the turkey to be cooked and dished out. I am so excited for our family Thanksgiving this year.

paper products: Zurchers 

straws, place mats: Target

turkey pinata: Zurchers

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Turkey Banner Decoration: Give Thanks Series

This Thanksgiving we are celebrating at home with just our sweet little family. Since there will be four kids and only two adults, I am going for a little more kid-friendly Thanksgiving dinner experience.

Our Thanksgiving decorations include the Turkey Rock Place Settings that I shared early this month on Thirty Handmade Days and this paint chip card Turkey Banner Decoration that I am sharing today on Whatever Dee-Dee Wants as part of her Give Thanks Series.

This is a new sew project. These also might just be the cutest little turkeys ever.

Head on over today to the Give Thanks Series and see how I put these cute little turkeys together.

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Our Thanksgiving Mantle

I love Christmas. I really, really do. I love every wonderful thing about it.

However, I love, love, love Thanksgiving too. So most things Christmas are put on hold until after Thanksgiving is done. Don't get me wrong, there are a few Christmas things that show up now.

Some Christmas presents are in the works. Hubby has also put up the Christmas lights outside. Mostly because we have a very small window of good weather from November until...well, April.

Other than those few things and the occasional toy circling in the Christmas toy magazine, we don't rush to celebrate Christmas too soon making sure not to skip over Thanksgiving. The good news is this year, Thanksgiving is late, so I have lots of time to enjoy it. On the flip side that also means my decorations for Christmas are going to go up the day after Thanksgiving before I have even had a chance to digest all that turkey.

Oh well, right! That is what happens with back to back holiday wonderfulness.

I am not complaining. I sure do love this time of year. 

The day after Halloween, my Bat Garland and Black and White Halloween Mantle was put away and my Thanksgiving Mantle was put together.

Every single thing I used this year to decorate was from last year. Not a single newly painted, sewn, or crafted thing.

Say it ain't so.

I am not gonna lie, it was kind of grand just reusing what I had. I loved everything so much I didn't mind using it again.

The older three made these Framed Turkey Hand Prints a couple of years ago. I probably should make one for Bean. Fortunately he is too young to care that he is left out of the hand-turkey fun.

I have grown rather fond of using dry beans in decorating. I revamped my usage of them a tad. Normally I have them all in one big glass container. This year I divided them up between these sweet glass milk jars that I got from IKEA a few months back.

The little turkey thankful canvas is still holding strong. As are the spray painted turkey figures I got at the dollar store.

Spray paint makes so many things so much better.

Like the all the cheap plastic pumpkins from The Mart.

The simple Thankful Tree is back, also resting in a glass milk jar.

I hung the Thanksgiving Pennant Banner over the mantle this year instead of in front of it. I like it this way so much better.

I know I shouldn't need a reminder to think of what I am thankful for, but unfortunately I am often guilty of forgetting all the great things I have. I am enjoying having a mantle that reminds me every time I see it to be grateful. 

Here are the tutorial links for the projects shown on my mantle--

Framed Turkey Handprint

Thankful Tree

Thanksgiving Pennant Banner

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