It is a tradition at our Day School for every class to make place mats for the school wide Thanksgiving Feast! I've seen tons of versions of turkeys and even the Mayflower and I just HAD to come up with something different. Leave it to me to rock the boat huh? What started out with an idea to paint USING Indian Corn (place in paint, then roll on paper to make a border) changed into thumbprint Indian Corn in itself. All because my local grocery store threw out all the Indian corn the night before I went to buy some for our art project. Of course right?!But I'm happy with how they turned out! We used paint craft rollers to instead make the borders with and then made lots and lots of thumbprints using yellow, red and brown paint to fill in a light pencil shape of corn I had made beforehand. I added the dark brown outline and the husks coming off the bottom of them and just printed out a poem I had my husband help me with:
With my cute little hands,
this corn I have made.
Like the Indians prepared,
on Thanksgiving Day!
It is super easy and would be a fun craft project for you and your little one to do next week when they're home from school! Not to mention it will save some cleaning up after your Thanksgiving meal!
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I can't believe that I only came across this now. We are kindred spirits. Every year I try to figure out how to NOT do the traditional pilgrim/turkey Thanksgiving preparation. We read Giving Thanks: A Good Morning Message. This will be a wonderful project to go along with it.
I'm so glad you like it! Have fun making them!
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