Do you have lots of little ones coming to your house for Thanksgiving? There's no reason a designated kids' table can't look as beautiful and festive as the main one. Below, we've got some lovely crafts from Martha Stewart, plus some super easy ideas in case you don't have time for pine cone turkeys.
The bonus of decorating a kids' table is that place settings or centerpieces can entertain the munchkins while they're waiting for food.
• See a slideshow of kids' tables (including the pine cone turkey, above) at MarthaStewart.com.
We really like the trivia turkeys, too—and all they require are construction paper and some brads. But we've got some other super fast options:
• Cover the table in butcher paper and have each kid draw an outline of their hand at their seat. Then let them color in the ubiquitous hand turkey.
• Scatter pretty fall leaves across the table for decoration, then let the kids make leaf colorings by putting paper on top and rubbing a crayon over it.
• Write kids' names in permanent marker on mini pumpkins, apples, or pears.
• Place a big bowl of "ingredients" in the middle of the table: a sweet potato, a regular potato, a few slices of bread, sprigs of herbs (you could also draw them) and have kids guess which dish contains which ingredient.
• Use felt rectangles (available at any crafts store) in pretty Thanksgiving-ish colors as place mats. After the meal, the kids could cut shapes out of the felt and glue them to popsicle sticks as puppets. Or, punch a hole in the top, tie a ribbon to it, and you've got a new Christmas ornament.
Related: Placecards for the Thanksgiving Table: a Handmade Roundup
(Image: MarthaStewart.com)
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Why just for the kids' table? I would love to have that little pine cone turkey at my seat.
My memories of Thanksgiving dinner where we often had 20 people sitting in the dining room, with the picnic table at the end of the long table and the card table at the end of that, all covered with snowy linen and my parents' good china and silver, was that we were all together, and the children didn't eat apart. I cherish being part of the discussion and reminiscing that took place there. I don't want the children sent off to eat elsewhere.
I'm 25, and I still have to sit at the kids table. Basically, with anyone that will sit with me. I would love the butcher paper for something to do. Soon, there will be a little one, and then everyone will be clamoring to sit with me.