Stand-Up Pilgrims

This Thanksgiving, put these stand-up pilgrims all around the house in surprising places.

Thankgiving crafts include making these stand-up figures.
Pilgrims make an appearance
at your Thanksgiving celebration.

What You'll Need:

  • Stiff cardboard
  • Pencil
  • Scissors
  • Markers
  • Felt
  • Glue
Who's that standing on top of the television? Who's hiding behind the sugar bowl? Is there someone standing next to the faucet of the kitchen sink? Why, they're pilgrims! And they seem to be standing around all over the house!

Make lots of these cutout figures, and place them in your home to create a thankful Thanksgiving mood.

For each pilgrim, draw a 6- to 8-inch-high person. At the bottom of each figure, draw a rectangular base a little wider than the person's body.

Draw on hats, breeches, buckled shoes, and long dresses such as the pilgrims wore. You could also cut out the pilgrims' clothes from felt and glue them onto your figure.

Then cut out your pilgrim with its rectangular base attached. Cut a vertical slit in the bottom center of the rectangular base. Then cut out another same-sized rectangle from cardboard, make a vertical slit in the middle
of the top, and insert it into the other slit to make a cross-shaped base.

Now, who's that standing around? Why, it's Miles Standish!

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