Encourage family and friends to share what they are most grateful for with these thankful turkey printable Thanksgiving placemats for kids and adults! (First published November 17, 2021; this post is updated and republished to improve the content.)
Printable Thanksgiving placemats are fun for kids and adults of all ages to color. Use these Thankful Turkey printable placemats to bring gratitude, appreciation, and joy to your holiday celebrations this Thanksgiving. Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, elementary-aged kids, teens, and adults will all enjoy this thankful Thanksgiving gratitude craft and activity.
Thankful Turkey printable Thanksgiving coloring placemats make it fun for the whole family to express gratitude with words or vibrant colors and simple pictures. First, invite children to make these easy Thanksgiving gratitude crafts with the DIY details below. (Or, use the I am thankful for printable placemats as is.)
Next, invite Thanksgiving dinner guests to give thanks for all of the blessings in their lives. Encourage them to write, draw, or color what they feel most grateful for on their thankful turkey placemats. Scroll down for the short craft supply list to see the step-by-step instructions and photo craft tutorial to help you make thankful turkey DIY Thanksgiving placemats. You might also enjoy this list of Thanksgiving Traditions.
Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving Placemats To Color
You’ve just struck gold if you are looking for fun things to do on Thanksgiving. Thankful Turkey printable Thanksgiving placemats to color. These printables to color for Thanksgiving are a fun gratitude craft and activity to keep children, relatives, and other dinner guests busy and happily entertained while they wait for thanksgiving dinner.
Best of all, these “I am thankful for” printable coloring pages can be made into thankful crafts the entire family will enjoy. Make autumn-themed paper placemats for your Thanksgiving dinner table with this simple Thanksgiving craft idea. Scroll down to learn how to make DIY Thanksgiving placemats with the easy step-by-step craft tutorial.
I am Thankful for Placemats & Coloring Supplies
- I Am Thankful for Printable Thanksgiving Placemats
- Cardstock
- Scissors or guillotine paper trimmer
- Thanksgiving paper placemats (harvest leaves, Kraft paper brown with scalloped edges, or maple leaves)
- Glue stick
- Colored pencils, crayons, markers, or gel pens
Easy Thanksgiving Placemat Craft for kids & adults
What are you most thankful for this Thanksgiving? Thankful turkey printable Thanksgiving placemats make it easy to cultivate gratitude at home over the holiday break while setting the table and waiting for dinner.
Thanksgiving placemat crafts for kids, like this fun DIY using a cute thankful turkey printable, can help keep the kids busy as they wait for their meal and help them learn to express gratitude for the blessings in their lives. You might also enjoy our printable thankful tree!
Homemade placemats for Thanksgiving are fun for kids or adults to make. Use the easy step-by-step Thanksgiving placemat craft instructions below (and the DIY Thanksgiving placemats photo tutorial in the next section) to make Thanksgiving coloring placemats for the kid’s Thanksgiving table.
But be sure to make enough for everyone because the entire family can enjoy these easy gratitude crafts together. Most adults also enjoy writing and doodling what they are thankful for on this printable placemat for Thanksgiving.
1. Download the thankful turkey printable Thanksgiving placemat.
- Get the “I Am Thankful For” printable Thanksgiving placemats in the Rhythms of Play Learning Center Printable Library HERE—>Thankful Turkey Printable Placemats.
2. Print “I Am Thankful For” placemats.
- After downloading the printable Thanksgiving placemats, print them onto printer paper or cardstock. (Cardstock creates a nice and sturdy surface for coloring thankful turkey placemats, but regular printer paper also works.)
3. Cut out printable Thanksgiving placemats to color.
- Use scissors or a paper trimmer to cut along the dotted line of each printable Thanksgiving coloring placemat.
4. Glue printable thankful turkey coloring placemats to the paper Thanksgiving placemats.
- First, rub a glue stick all over the back of the “I am Thankful for” Thanksgiving coloring placemats.
- Next, turn the thankful turkey printable over and glue it in the center of the paper Thanksgiving placemats you purchase (or make) for the base. (Several paper placemat options are included in the thankful turkey craft supply section above.)
5. Set the Thanksgiving dinner table with thankful placemats to color.
- Invite children to set the Thanksgiving dinner table with the cute, thankful turkey coloring placemats they put together.
- Don’t forget to put crayons, colored pencils, markers, or gel pens on the table to color the printable thankful turkey placemats.
6. Invite kids (and other guests) to color Thanksgiving placemats with what they are thankful for.
- Encourage guests to write, draw, doodle, or color what they feel most grateful for onto a Thanksgiving coloring placemat while waiting for Thanksgiving dinner to be served.
- My daughter used her favorite colored pencils to color the thankful turkey placemat in the photograph below.
DIY Thanksgiving Placemats Photo Tutorial
As you can see in the photograph below, these printable placemats for Thanksgiving have a cute thankful turkey in the middle. The DIY Thanksgiving placemats photo tutorial below shows how to turn the thankful turkey printable into a Thanksgiving placemat for kids and adults.
Printable Thanksgiving Placemats for Kids and Adults
Invite children to make “I am thankful for” placemats. These printable Thanksgiving placemats are fun for kids and adults to make and color!
Making and coloring paper placemats for Thanksgiving is a great way to pass the time while waiting for dinner to be served. Coloring thankful-for placemats can also help increase feelings of gratitude at the Thanksgiving dinner table.
First, download and print the printable Thanksgiving coloring placemats with the cute thankful turkey in the middle. Then, invite the kids to make this easy Thanksgiving placemat craft with the instructions above. Next, set the table with the Thanksgiving coloring placemats.
Finally, invite dinner guests to write, color, doodle, or draw what they are most grateful for on their printable “I am thankful for” placemats. You can see the Thanksgiving placemats my husband, daughter, and I colored in 2021 in the photograph below. Use these gratitude journal prompts to help you color your own.
You might also enjoy these Thanksgiving gratitude activities and thankful craft ideas, or this list of Thanksgiving Traditions you do to celebrate and give thanks this year.
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More Thanksgiving Crafts and Ideas
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- Best Thankful Trees for Thanksgiving
- DIY Thanksgiving Turkey Leaf Lanterns
- Printable Thankful Tree for Thanksgiving
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