Thankful Turkey Printable Thanksgiving Placemats to Color

Encourage family and friends to share what they are most grateful for with these thankful turkey printable Thanksgiving placemats, perfect for both kids and adults.

Printable Thanksgiving placemats are fun for kids and adults of all ages to color. Use these Thankful Turkey printable placemats to add gratitude, appreciation, and joy to your Thanksgiving holiday celebrations. Thankful turkey placemats make it easy to cultivate gratitude at the Thanksgiving dinner table. What are you most grateful for this Thanksgiving? Express your appreciation in words or pictures in the provided boxes of the printable Thanksgiving placemats. You might also enjoy this printable thankful or gratitude tree!

Toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, elementary school-aged children, teens, and adults will each find this Thanksgiving gratitude craft and activity enjoyable. Coloring is a relaxing and stress-relieving activity that people of all ages can enjoy. Fostering gratitude can improve well-being and perceived quality of life. These are only two of the benefits that demonstrate why Thanksgiving coloring placemats are an excellent addition to everyone’s place setting at the table, not just the kids’ table.

First published on November 17, 2021, this thankful turkey placemat craft tutorial has been updated to improve its content. Please scroll down for more details. You might also enjoy making the Thanksgiving turkey leaf lanterns featured in the photo with the Thankful Turkey Placemat below.

Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving Placemats To Color:

You’ve just struck gold if you are looking for fun things to do on Thanksgiving. These printable coloring pages for Thanksgiving are a fun and engaging gratitude craft and activity to keep children, relatives, and other dinner guests busy and happily entertained while they wait for Thanksgiving dinner.

Thankful Turkey printable Thanksgiving coloring placemats make it fun for the whole family to express gratitude with words or pictures in black and white or vibrant colors. First, invite children to create these easy Thanksgiving gratitude crafts using the DIY details provided below. (Or, use the I am thankful for printable placemats as is.) Next, invite your Thanksgiving dinner guests to express gratitude for all the blessings in their lives by writing or drawing what they are thankful for in the provided boxes.

In other words, encourage children and adults to write, draw, or color what they feel most grateful for on their thankful turkey placemats. Scroll down for a brief craft supply list, step-by-step instructions, and a photo tutorial to guide you in creating these thankful turkey DIY Thanksgiving placemats. Please review this list of Thanksgiving traditions for additional fun things to do on Thanksgiving.

How to Make Thankful Turkey Placemats:

With this simple Thanksgiving craft idea, you can make autumn-themed paper placemats for your Thanksgiving dinner table. First, get the Thankful Turkey Printable Thanksgiving Placemats to Color. The “I am thankful for” printable coloring pages are sure to be enjoyed by the entire family. Next, scroll down to learn how to make DIY Thanksgiving placemats with the easy step-by-step craft tutorial. You may want to read the tutorial before selecting the materials you wish to use from the recommendations below:

I am Thankful for Placemats & Coloring Supplies:

• I Am Thankful for Printable Thanksgiving Placemats
• Cardstock
• Scissors or a guillotine paper trimmer
• Thanksgiving paper placemats (choose at least one of the following options):
  • Harvest leaves (shown in the photographs for this craft tutorial)
  • Kraft brown with scalloped edges
  • Maple leaves
  • Paper placemats in autumn colors
• Glue stick
• Colored pencils, crayons, markers, or gel pens

Thankful Turkey Thanksgiving Placemat Craft Step-by-Step Instructions:

Homemade placemats for Thanksgiving are a fun project for both kids and adults to create. 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 kids Thanksgiving table.

However, be sure to make enough for everyone, because these easy gratitude crafts are fun for the entire family to enjoy. Most adults also enjoy writing and doodling what they are thankful for on this printable placemat for Thanksgiving as much, if not more, than children do! For more ideas, please visit these Thanksgiving Traditions and Celebration Ideas.

1. Access 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 accessing 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. (The thankful turkey craft supply section above includes several paper placemat options.)

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.
• Use gratitude prompts to help you think of things to draw or create a symbol for in each shape marked by an arrow pointing at it.
• 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 photographs, these printable placemats for Thanksgiving feature an adorable thankful turkey in the middle. Please take a look at the DIY Thanksgiving placemats photo tutorial below to see how easy it is to transform the thankful turkey printable into a Thanksgiving placemat. Printable Thanksgiving placemats are a fun activity for kids and adults to make and color!

Printable Thanksgiving Placemats for Kids and Adults To Color:

Thanksgiving placemat crafts for kids, such as this fun DIY using a cute thankful turkey printable, can help keep the kids busy while they wait for their meal and help them learn to express gratitude for the blessings in their lives. Invite children to make “I am thankful for” placemats for Thanksgiving this year.

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, print the printable Thanksgiving coloring placemats featuring a cute thankful turkey in the center. 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. The photographs show the Thanksgiving placemats my husband, daughter, and I made in 2021. Use these gratitude journal prompts to help you color your own.

You might also enjoy these Thanksgiving gratitude activities and thankful craft ideas. For more information about this fall harvest festival, here’s a list of Thanksgiving Traditions you can follow this year to celebrate and give thanks.

Learn more about Nell Regan Kartychok, author, photographer, and creator of this original Thanksgiving turkey craft HERE, and Rhythms of Play HERE!

More Thanksgiving Crafts and Ideas:

• Thanksgiving Traditions and Fun Things to Do
• Best Thankful Trees for Thanksgiving
• DIY Thanksgiving Turkey Leaf Lanterns
• Printable Thankful Tree for Thanksgiving
• Leaf Turkey Crafts