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You can create this easy Thanksgiving kids' cornucopia craft with paper plates and cut-outs from magazines and grocery store flyers. Your kids should find it easy to do this with very little supervision from you.

Thanksgiving Cornucopia Craft Project

What You Will Need
Five paper plates
Brown craft paint
Paint brush
Scissors
Old magazines or grocery store flyers
Glue

Hole punch
Yarn

Paint all five paper plates with the brown craft paint. Allow to dry.

Cut out the tail of the cornucopia on the fifth paper plate. Use the accompanying picture as a guide. To make multiple cornucopias, stack the plates and cut all of them at once.

Stack the paper plates and glue them together. Place the tail of the Thanksgiving cornucopia craft project in back. Allow to dry thoroughly.

Cut out pictures of fruit and vegetables for your Thanksgiving cornucopia craft project. Use old magazines or grocery store flyers. Make sure everything you use has the same finish. Try to focus on cutting out fall-time images, such as pumpkins, apples, gourds and decorative corn preferably with the husks still intact.

Punch a hole in the tops of the first and fourth paper plates. Put yarn through these holes to hang your Thanksgiving cornucopia craft project on a door or wall.

More Fun Thanksgiving Cornucopia Craft Ideas

Instead of making a paper plate cornucopia for Thanksgiving, try making an edible cornucopia out of an ice cream cone, icing in a tube and fruit shaped candy. Decorate the side of the cone with the name of a Thanksgiving guest (an adult will need to do this part of the project.) Place the cone on a plate or saucer. Spread a little icing inside the cone, and use it to cement the fruit-shaped candy in place. Allow some of the candy fruits to spill out onto the plate.

Try using Bugles snacks as cornucopias. You can fill these treats with the fruit candy or with fruit-shaped marshmallows from a box of cereal for a very inexpensive version of the Thanksgiving cornucopia craft.

Cut your cornucopia out of brown construction paper. Have the kids cut their fruits and vegetables out of brightly colored construction paper, and shade them with colored pencils. Glue the cornucopia together.

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