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Pilgrim Crafts and Activities for Kids

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These pilgrim crafts and activities for kids are the easy kind: paper plates, toilet paper rolls and a lot of black construction paper. Pick one or two for a Thanksgiving unit, or set out a few and let the kids choose.

They pair nicely with our Mayflower crafts and activities, so you can cover the whole trip, boat and all.

Pilgrim crafts and activities for preschoolers and kids

Below you will find the craft roundup sorted into hats and bonnets, pilgrim people, treats and table crafts, and printables. After that: a simple way to explain the Pilgrims to little kids, and answers to the questions parents ask most.

What You Need for Most Pilgrim Crafts

Glue, scissors, crayons or markers, and black, white and brown construction paper cover almost every craft on this list. Grab a few paper plates and save your toilet paper rolls for a week and you are set.

Pilgrim Hat and Bonnet Crafts

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Pilgrim Hat Handprint Art for kids
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Pilgrim Hat Handprint Art
Kids trace their own hand and turn it into a pilgrim hat, which is about as low-prep as a craft gets. It works for toddlers who mostly want to glue things, and the hand size makes it a keepsake.
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Styrofoam cup pilgrim hat kid craft
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Styrofoam Cup Pilgrim Hat Kid Craft
An upside-down foam cup becomes the hat, and a paper brim and buckle finish it off. Make a few and they double as place card holders on the kids’ table.
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Popcorn Pilgrim Hat Craft for kids
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Popcorn Pilgrim Hat Craft
A pilgrim hat craft with popcorn in the mix, which means the kids will want to eat part of it. Save it for a class party or the afternoon before Thanksgiving when nobody is focusing anyway.
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Pilgrim hat toilet paper roll Thanksgiving craft for kids
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Pilgrim Hat Toilet Paper Roll Thanksgiving Craft For Kids
Paint a toilet paper roll black, add a brim and a buckle, and you have a pilgrim hat that stands up on its own. It finally uses up that roll stash you keep meaning to deal with.
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Pilgrim Bonnet for kids
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Pilgrim Bonnet
A wearable paper bonnet for kids who want to play pilgrim, not just make one. Pair it with the hat in the next craft so everybody has something to wear.
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Pilgrim Bonnet and Hat for kids
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Pilgrim Bonnet and Hat
This set makes both a bonnet and a hat out of paper, so you can outfit two kids at once. Then let them act out the Mayflower landing at Plymouth in the living room.
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Make Your Own Pilgrims

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Spoon Pilgrims for kids
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Spoon Pilgrims: make cute pilgrims from spoons and paper
Wooden craft spoons become little pilgrim people with paper clothes and drawn-on faces. They are sturdy enough to play with afterward, which buys you some quiet.
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Paper Tube Pilgrims for kids
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Paper Tube Pilgrims
A couple of toilet paper rolls, some construction paper and a marker make a pilgrim pair. Quick, cheap, and they stand up on a windowsill or the Thanksgiving table.
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Footprint pilgrims and cornucopia kids craft
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Footprint Pilgrims and Cornucopia (Kids Crafts)
Paint little feet, press them on paper, and turn the prints into pilgrims and a cornucopia. It is messy, so have wipes ready. It is also exactly the kind of craft grandparents want to keep.
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Popsicle Stick Pilgrim Craft for Thanksgiving for kids
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Popsicle Stick Pilgrim Craft for Thanksgiving
A handful of craft sticks and some paper scraps make a flat pilgrim that works as a puppet. Good fine motor practice for kids who like gluing small pieces.
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Do you want to make a pilgrim? for kids
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Do you want to make a pilgrim?
A step-by-step pilgrim craft built around following directions in order. Handy in a preschool or kindergarten unit when you want the craft to double as a listening lesson.
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Paper pilgrim craft for kids
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DLTK’s Crafts for Kids Pilgrim Paper Craft
Print the pieces, color, cut and put together your own paper pilgrim. A good pick for kids who like a project they can finish on their own.
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Easy Paper Plate Pilgrim Craft for kids
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DLTK’s Crafts for KidsEasy Paper Plate Pilgrim Craft
A paper plate, a few colored paper shapes and glue. It is one of the easiest crafts on this list and a solid choice for a big group.
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Pilgrim Collage Craft for kids
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Pilgrim Collage Craft
Kids build a pilgrim out of torn paper scraps, so nothing has to be perfect. It is a good way to use up the construction paper bits left over from every other craft here.
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Finger Puppet Pilgrims for kids
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Finger Puppet Pilgrims
Small paper puppets that slip over little fingers. Make a pair and let the kids put on their own Thanksgiving show while you finish the pies.
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Pilgrim Photo Puppets for kids
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Pilgrim Photo Puppets
Kids’ own photos go on paper pilgrim bodies, so they get to see themselves in the story. These are fun to mail to grandparents, too.
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Pilgrim Treats and Table Crafts

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Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies for kids
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Thanksgiving Pilgrim Hat Cookies
A pilgrim hat treat the kids can help put together. Make a batch for a class party or the dessert table and let the kids take the credit.
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Pilgrim Napkin Rings for kids
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Pilgrim Napkin Rings
Kid-made napkin rings give the kids a real job on Thanksgiving Day. Make one for every place setting and the table looks pulled together with no extra effort from you.
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Pilgrim Shoe Place Cards for kids
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Pilgrim Shoe Place Cards
Paper pilgrim shoes with a buckle double as name cards for the table. Older kids can write the names themselves, which quietly counts as handwriting practice.
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Pilgrim Printables and Learning

More Thanksgiving Printables From My Shop

MEGA Thanksgiving Preschool Pack printable

MEGA Thanksgiving Preschool Pack

100 pages. Covers every day of the break, and then some.

Thanksgiving Math for Preschool printable

Thanksgiving Math for Preschool

20 pages of counting and numbers. Turkeys optional.

Pretend Play Thanksgiving Dinner printable

Pretend Play Thanksgiving Dinner

Menus, name tags and play food. No dishes to wash.

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Pilgrim Journey free printable mini-book for kids
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{FREE} Mini-book: Pilgrim Journey!!
A free printable minibook that walks kids through the Pilgrims’ trip in a few simple pages. Read it together, then let them color it.
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Pilgrim hat alphabet match activity for kids
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Pilgrim Hat Alphabet Match for Kids
Kids match letters on paper pilgrim hats for quick letter recognition practice. It is easy to set up for toddlers and easy to make harder with lowercase letters.
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P is for Pilgrim do a dot worksheet for preschoolers
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Thanksgiving Preschool Printable (P is for Pilgrim Do a Dot Worksheet)
Preschoolers hunt for the letter P on this Thanksgiving printable. It is a quick, low-prep page for a letter of the week or a pilgrim unit.
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Pilgrim Printable Activity Book for kids
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Pilgrim Printable Activity Book
A printable pilgrim book kids finish as they read. A good fit for early readers who are ready for a little more than coloring.
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Find the Letter P is for Pilgrims for kids
Find the Letter P is for Pilgrims
My own free printable for a pilgrim-themed letter P hunt. Print it for a quiet table activity while the turkey is in the oven.
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How to Explain the Pilgrims to Little Kids

Keep it short. The Pilgrims sailed from England on the Mayflower in 1620 and landed in what is now Massachusetts. Their first winter was hard, and the Wampanoag people, who already lived there, helped them learn to grow corn and find food.

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In the fall of 1621, the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag shared a harvest feast that we now call the first Thanksgiving. For preschoolers, that is plenty. Older kids are ready for a book or a museum visit that tells more of the story from both sides.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers to the pilgrim questions that come up every November.

Hats are the easiest. The handprint pilgrim hat, the paper cup hat and the toilet paper roll hat all take a few supplies and very little cutting, so little kids can do most of the work themselves.

Probably not what we eat now. Historians think the feast included deer brought by the Wampanoag, wild birds like ducks and geese, seafood, corn and squash. Pumpkin pie came much later.

Start with the basics: a long boat trip, a hard winter, new neighbors who helped, and a harvest feast. Then let a craft or a picture book carry the rest. Kids remember the paper plate pilgrim a lot longer than the dates.

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