I work volunteer hours working an assisted living home trying to earn my silver award for Girl Scouts. We do crafts every other week or so and we do a craft usually for each holiday. We have done a Halloween craft but now I need ideas for a Thanksgiving craft that the residents could hang on their door. These crafts need to be not very complicated and not use expensive supplies. These people's hands are shaky and have trouble with gluing many parts together. They love to paint (they use the foam brushes for sponge painting) so painting is okay.
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my grandsons class made the cutest wreath. they took a thin white paper plate and cut out the inside circle which left a round circle about 3-4 wide to use as the wreaths base for building.Then they cut out the same shape of a maple leaf using construction paper in fall colors like red, orange, yellow green, and glued those on in a clockwise circle slightly over lapping each leaf on the one before it until the wreath was full one layer around. Then a ribbon piece tied into a bow was attached (the wide 2 inch wire tulle ribbon0 it was attached to the top with glue.
If it's not too simple - I have always liked the turkeys you can make from a handprint. Just draw around the hand and then paint - add sparkle, etc.
You also might check out the free coloring pages at www.doverpublications.com. You could also spray autumn leaves with paint, and make shadow pictures by putting the leaves on paper and then spraying, & removing the leaves. Or press leaves between layers of waxed paper with a cool iron....
Going along with the wreath idea already suggested, how about making one out of foam leaf stickers? You can find a tub of them very inexpensively at chain craft stores (or could also be ordered from Oriental Trading). You could either use paper plates for the base, or cut circles from foam. I think they'd look great! You could also do a wreath with a wax paper center, that includes a single pretty leaf. Good luck!
Card holders are nice for the holidays. For Thanksgiving make a turkey and for winter holidays make snowpeople, santas, penguins, etc. Staple half a paper plate to a whole one to make a storage space for greeting cards. For the turkey, glue paper feathers to the back of the whole plate. They can use the sponge brushes with the glue, and it doesn't matter if it's neat.
Try felt and double sided carpet tape, with felt you can make turkeys or wreaths, or my kids made a christmas tree out of felt added grommets to put lights thru and made orniments of felt with glitter and cequins and sticky velcro for the back, that was about 17 years ago and it's still holding up for the grandsons to decorate.
I'm looking for creative ideas for my activity calendar for next month. I have bingo, wine & fruit, birthday party, movie & popcorn.
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