Since Thanksgiving in the US is just a few days away, I thought I’d share some of my favorite frugal Thanksgiving decorating tips.
- Anything from pumpkins to fall flowers can be used to make a pretty fall center piece. Use what you have and get creative. Dig out a bowl or basket and fill it with anything from before mentioned small pumpkins or even some pretty fall leaves and pine cones.
- Many people associate the pilgrim’s hat with Thanksgiving. You can create a pilgrim hat out of terracotta pot, black felt, and some yellow paper. Determine the size of the brim by rolling the terracotta pot in a circle, marking the top and the bottom until you get a complete circle. Cut out the shape on both lines, and cover the pot and brim with black felt. Cut out a buckle out of the yellow paper. Glue the buckle on the covered pot. After the glue has dried, put a potted flower inside and place it in the center of your table.
- If you have plenty of apples, make them your center piece. Fill a bowl with them, or cut out part of the core on two of them and use them as candle holders. We are making some more turkey apples this year with the kids. It keeps them busy while the food is cooking and it makes for a cute decoration.
- Here’s another cute idea for the kids…let them create a Thanksgiving turkey out of a large paper grocery sack. Gather colorful fall leaves to use as the tail of the turkey. Fill the bag with crumpled newspaper and tie it off with rubber band to create the head. Draw on wings. Create a waddle and legs from construction paper. Glue the leaves on the flat part of the bag as tail feathers. Glue the waddle and legs where they belong. Don’t forget to give your turkey eyes.
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Wishing you all In the USA a happy Thanksgiving. We will have to wait until Christmas here in the UK until we can enjoy the festivities.
I like some of these ideas a lot and think that they will work well for our Christmas too. thanks for the ideas
If you do not have access to pumpkins, the kids can make them. Wrap 1 roll of toilet paper with orange cloth, crepe paper, tissue paper or what ever and stick the end of the paper in the top of the roll, (no showing seams or ends). Roll up a piece of brown paper bag and poke it in the top, you now have an orange pumpkin with a brown stem. The kids can make leaves out of what ever they want. The best thing, after the season is over (or if you run out first) you still have your toilet paper to use. OR they can just color a paper bag as they please, fill the paper bag with news paper and shape it into a pumpkin. It’s all fun for the kids.
Liz Walker