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	This week's Craft of the Week features a wonderful Thanksgiving Tablecloth that the whole family can help make. By taking an inexpensive white cotton tablecloth or purchase material to make the cloth, you can have everyone in your family mark what Thanksgiving means to them. You'll need to clear off a large space on the floor to do this project and to allow it to dry for a few hours. Try and choose fall colors and colors that say Thanksgiving to you- orange, gold, brown, green, red etc... If you want to include leaves as a print item you can get them from outside your house and trace them right on the material with the fabric paint or trace with a pencil and paint later. Using real life items to inspire what prints you'd like to include is a great way to add diversity to this project. What You Need: Plain white table cloth Fabric paint Printing items- here are some suggestions: Use potatoes to cut desired shapes into and use to print on the cloth. Sponges- these can also put cut using scissors to make a great print for example a pumpkin. Feathers Corn Cob Make a print of your hand and turn it into a turkey! What You Do: Wash and iron the cloth first. This will give you a nice flat surface to work on and any shrinking the cloth will do will have been done on this first washing. After placing the cloth on a clean wide space and laying down protective newspaper you can plan where to place your prints, what colors to use etc... If you are going to "dip" any of the printing items in paint you can use a paper or Styrofoam plate to put the paint on.	Get our FREE newsletter and join our craft, cooking & other support groups Crafts for Thanksgiving Day (Holiday Crafts for Kids) by Kathy Ross, Sharon Lane Holm (Illustrator) Twenty fun craft projects, from a kitchen magnet made out of corn kernels to a festive pumpkin centerpiece for the Thanksgiving meal, help children celebrate turkey day Crafts to Make in the Fall (Crafts for All Seasons) by Kathy Ross, Vicky Enright see the interview with Kathy see a FREE craft from this book Handprint Magnets Featuring symbols of the fall season, this book includes 29 craft projects--including a changing tree puppet, a school bus picture frame, a soft sculpture pumpkin, a Columbus Day hat, and cornucopia place cards. Full color. 175 Easy-To-Do Thanksgiving Crafts by Sharon Dunn Umnik Here's a cornucopia of Thanksgiving Day crafts that offers children hours of creative fun. Fanciful turkeys, wreaths, Pilgrims, garlands, and holiday-table accessories are just some of the crafts that reflect the autumn season and this most bountiful of holidays. Full-color photographs.

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