Thanksgiving Table: Pilgrim Hat Crayon Holders Craft

When hosting a family Thanksgiving Dinner you have to think about all of your guests, big and small. So, it’s essential to provide a Thanksgiving Table for the little ones to help keep them occupied while the day unfolds. The best thing about a kid’s Thanksgiving Table is that you can let your imagination completely free and arrange everything in a cute and fun way, keeping Thanksgiving traditions in the center of attention. Making these Pilgrim Hats to hold coloring crayons for the kids, together with a Thanksgiving themed coloring page that could even play the role of a placemat is a wonderful and easy craft to make. Read on to learn how to make them!

Thanksgiving Table: Pilgrim Hat Crayon Holders Craft

Cute pilgrim hat crayon holders

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Supplies

• Black plastic cups
• Black cardstock or foam sheet for the brim
• Glue or hot glue gun and hot glue.
• Scissors or x-acto knife
• Embellishments like buttons, colored cardstock for the band and buckle, ribbon etc.

This pilgrim hat crayon holder is easy to make

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Directions

1. Cut away the bottom of the cup using the scissors or x-acto knife.
2. Cut out a circle (it has to be a little larger than the cup’s rim) out of the black cardstock or foam sheet. Glue the circle to the cup’s rim to make the brim.
3. Add the embellishments to make the cup look like a pilgrim’s hat. To do that, you should definitely create a band out of some cardstock or use a suitable piece of ribbon for that. Also, a buckle is essential; just cut it out of a quadrangular piece of colored cardstock.
4. Fill the hat with crayons and place it on the table for the kids to enjoy!

Use pilgrim hat to hold food or candy

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This easy craft is not only great to use as crayon holders, but you can easily adapt them to hold food, like veggie sticks, popcorn or candy, just use a little aluminum foil or plastic wrap to line the bottom of your pilgrim’s hats. If using the pilgrims hats at the Thanksgiving Table as crayon holders, you should definitely have a few coloring pages available for the little ones to use, or provide them with placing mats or table runner that they could paint on. Also, think about giving them small leafs out of cardstock to write or draw on something they are thankful for, which you then could hang on your Thanksgiving Tree.

This Thanksgiving craft is easy to prepare and it’s a great way to get kids involved with the preparation of this special day!