Mosaic Cornucopia Craft

I found this fun cornucopia craft on Kaboose Crafts and added it to our Thanksgiving Week!

Supplies:

• 1 sheet of plain white paper
• Half sheets of construction paper: brown, black, purple, red, yellow, green and orange
• White craft glue, Q-tips, small dixie cups (1 for each student)
• Scissors
• Pattern from Kaboose (I just printed 1 per student)

Directions:

• Cut small squares from each color of construction paper
• Provide small cups of white craft glue for each child along with a stack of Q-tips
• Use paintbrushes or Q-tips to dab small amounts of glue onto the paper and glue on the construction paper squares as follows:
• Brown – horn
  Black – horn mouth/rim
  Purple – grapes at top
  Red – apple to the right, below top grapes
  Purple – eggplant
  Red – apple below eggplant
  Green – leaves below apple
  Yellow – apple below top grapes
  Green and yellow – corn cob
  Green – leaves below corn
  Purple – grapes below corn cob
  Orange – pumpkin

As your crafting, discuss what it means to give thanks and how the cornucopia symbolizes a bountiful harvest. This will go along with our study on the pilgrims and how they had to work hard to farm and harvest their food.