Thanksgiving Crafts for Adults

Thanksgiving calls for special decorations, unique gifts, recipes and much more. If you are wondering how to decorate your house, here are some art and craft ideas to help you in the task. You can make these crafts and use them to decorate your house in a unique way this year. You can use these to decorate your house and you won't even need to purchase any expensive items. The material required for making these craft ideas are also easily available.

Easy Thanksgiving Craft Ideas for Adults

Holiday Pillowcase
To make a holiday pillowcase you'll need 1 yard holiday fabric about 42 to 45 inches wide, matching thread, measuring tape, sewing machine, pearl pins and iron.

Procedure
The standard size of a pillow is 20x26 inches. The pillow case has to be wider than the pillow. If you have opted for cotton fabric, the best one for stitching and use, then wash, dry and iron it before stitching. Now, cut a piece of 38x42 inch of this fabric. Fold the rectangle in half, so that the shorter edges are over each other, wrong sides must be out. Hem it leaving a ¼ inch border, from two sides. Slightly trim the corners and turn the pillowcase right side out. Your holiday pillowcase is ready.

Polymer Clay Turkey
This craft is made using polymer clay which bakes easily in the oven. To prepare this cheap easy craft, you'll need balls of red, yellow, white, orange, brown polymer clay, ½ inch each. Polymer clay shaping tool for cutting and a pencil.

Procedure
Press the red clay ball to form flat circle. Now using the cutting tool, cut away the bottom 1/3rd circle. Press the orange ball to form a circle slightly smaller than that of red ball and place it over the red circle. Make sure that you place it slightly below the red circle so that a red border is visible. Now cut away the bottom part of orange clay to match it with the red edge. Start with the yellow ball, place it over orange circle in same way as orange was placed over red ball to form tail feathers of the turkey. Make lines over it by slightly pressing the cutting tool into it. Using a thin pencil create a depression in the center of the tail to fit in the body here. Now, form a cylindrical shape with brown clay and place it in the depression. Create two holes for the eyes, using a pencil tip over this cylindrical body. Place small white balls here. Make a small gizzard using red clay and place it below the eyes. Also, add small yellow beak, triangle shaped, and place it under the eyes and over the gizzard. Using orange clay, make 2 flat circles to form feet and place them at the bottom of the body. Bake it in oven and your polymer clay turkey is ready. You can make a larger turkey using more amount of clay.

Gratitude Wreath
This is one of the Thanksgiving crafts for adults which you can make with help of your family and friends. To make this gratitude wreath you'll need a straw wreath of 18-inch diameter, fall leaves, half yard ¼ inch elastic, metallic pens and pearl pins.

Procedure
Bring sturdy fall leaves in a large sack. The straw wreath will act as a base for this craft. Start wrapping the wreath with elastic. First secure one end of elastic over the wreath using pearl pins. Go on wrapping the elastic around the wreath, keep about 2-3 inch intervals. Wrap the elastic tightly against the straw. Once you come back to the starting point of the elastic cut it and secure it properly with pearl pins. Now take out the fall leaves. Ask your family members to write down what they are most thankful for using metallic pens. Tuck these leaves in the elastic, start from top and work clockwise. Make sure that no elastic or straw is visible, tuck the leaves accordingly. You can hang this wreath on the door or wall. You can also place a basket of leaves near the door. The leaves from this can be used by the guests on Thanksgiving to add their messages to our wreath.

So aren't these Thanksgiving crafts for adults easy and exciting? Just adding a little creativity in each of these can give them a unique touch. So, collect the material and get started, make this Thanksgiving a special one!