<a class='isly-pinterest-permalink' style='display: none !important;' href='https://andersruff.com/custom-printable-parties/diy/straight-from-our-studio-kids-craft-thanksgiving-placemats/' data-description='Anders Ruff Custom Designs, LLC: Free Printable Kids Craft &#8211; Thanksgiving Placemats'></a><a class='isly-pinterest-permalink' style='display: none !important;' href='https://andersruff.com/custom-printable-parties/diy/straight-from-our-studio-kids-craft-thanksgiving-placemats/' data-description='Anders Ruff Custom Designs, LLC: Free Printable Kids Craft &#8211; Thanksgiving Placemats'></a>{"id":2002,"date":"2010-11-22T17:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/uncategorized\/straight-from-our-studio-kids-craft-thanksgiving-placemats\/"},"modified":"2012-07-18T11:32:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-18T11:32:46","slug":"straight-from-our-studio-kids-craft-thanksgiving-placemats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/diy\/straight-from-our-studio-kids-craft-thanksgiving-placemats\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Printable Kids Craft &#8211; Thanksgiving Placemats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gobble Gobble &#8211; it&#8217;s Thanksgiving Week!!! We wanted to share with you some festive ideas for the upcoming holiday.<br \/>\nTwo years ago, I asked my children to draw some Thanksgiving Hand Turkeys, and to write an &#8220;I am Thankful for&#8221; message to our family.<br \/>\nI liked the artwork so much, that I decided to turn it into placemats, decorate the table-settings and then give away as favors to all the Grandparents, Cousins, Aunts\/Uncles. I scanned in their artwork, and added a graphic design to &#8220;jazz&#8221; them up a bit, plus help match my dining room decor! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I made plenty of extra so I could also use them again for the following years&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, my relatives thought this was such a memorable keepsake (grandparents like ANYTHING their grandchildren make), and needless to say they were a huge success!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542431580175612258\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 261px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KHPyf7_jApU\/TOqsKDhGOWI\/AAAAAAAAEQQ\/sUaeZnZIvLs\/s400\/thanksmenu.001a.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542431821636464194\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 264px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_KHPyf7_jApU\/TOqsYHB2bkI\/AAAAAAAAEQY\/3Q8xJ_Nf4PY\/s400\/thanksmenu.002a.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\nMy kids loved showing off their artwork, and were so proud to set them at each place-setting.<br \/>\nI went ahead and designed a <a href=\"http:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/43650038-Free-Printable-Thanksgiving-Placemats.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FREE Printable for Thanksgiving Placemats\u00a0<\/a>for all of our readers.<br \/>\nYou can either set several out at the children&#8217;s table to them to use as coloring pages OR you can follow my easy instructions on how to turn them into memorable placemat keepsakes!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542433414112390034\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 309px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KHPyf7_jApU\/TOqt0zdsq5I\/AAAAAAAAEQo\/7BVIpBN8SbM\/s400\/andersruff-thanksgiving%2Bplacemats.001-03.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KHPyf7_jApU\/TOqso-HUUGI\/AAAAAAAAEQg\/nwosdvAujBg\/s1600\/andersruff-thanksgiving%2Bplacemats.001-02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542432111301251170\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; width: 400px; cursor: pointer; height: 309px; text-align: center;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_KHPyf7_jApU\/TOqso-HUUGI\/AAAAAAAAEQg\/nwosdvAujBg\/s400\/andersruff-thanksgiving%2Bplacemats.001-02.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> We will post Thankgiving Holiday ideas, crafts and more later this week!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/5484559813005010790-7653627733936597671?l=andersruff.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gobble Gobble &#8211; it&#8217;s Thanksgiving Week!!! We wanted to share with you some festive ideas for the upcoming holiday. Two years ago, I asked my children to draw some Thanksgiving Hand Turkeys, and to write an &#8220;I am Thankful for&#8221; message to our family. I liked the artwork so much, that I decided to turn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,31,67,1487,104],"tags":[110,179,580,579,577],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crafts","category-diy","category-free-printables","category-freebies","category-thanksgiving","tag-fall","tag-free","tag-leaf","tag-placemat","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2002"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13283,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2002\/revisions\/13283"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andersruff.com\/custom-printable-parties\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}