The Kids' Table--Fun ideas for Thanksgiving!

A couple of years ago, my daughter and I made this table for an extended family Thanksgiving.

We started with brown butcher paper. I let my daughter stamp leaf patterns all over the paper and on the napkins.

The cute pumpkin plates were from The Dollar Spot at Target. The cute Turkey place mats? My mom and I had made those a few years before, copying some very cute (and expensive) ones from Pottery Barn Kids. Yes, Mom did all of the sewing (what would I ever do with out her?), but I did do all of the hand stitching (embroidery).

The other thing you can see in this picture (although not too well) is the runts cornucopias we often make for thanksgiving. You take the Bugle snack crackers and use Marshmallow Creme to "glue" the runts into the bugles. The cutest ones have a large enough opening to fit 3 runts in each bugle. I've also made rice crispy-type treats out of shredded wheat and cut them into rectangles to make hay bales. You can set the cornucopias on top of the hay bale and even make a name card on a toothpick to stick into the hay bale.

We had fun coming up with this guy out of a big squash, gourd, carrot (nose), cloves (eyes), and fruit candies. We put the candies on skewers and stuck them into the squash. He made a fun, kid-friendly centerpiece!