A Thanksgiving Table Using Nothing But Paper. Which Means Free.

After doing our white trash Halloween mantel, I'm now a convert to the "let the kids craft/use it for decoration/ when it's over just throw it away rather than storing for next year" way of thinking. It's a win - win - win situation: children stay busy, the house looks festive, and the attic stays clean.

The ingredients: some construction paper, and google images. Have the littles cut them out, trace onto the colored paper, and then free hand the veins.

Line them up, and glue them together (we used hot glue for extra strength),

and you have a table runner.

But every table needs a centerpiece, so when I saw this project with full instructions that nearly killed me from cuteness, I knew we had a winner.

A brown bag,

but instead of filling it with popcorn, we used grocery bags.

(Can you imagine me putting popcorn in that thing and then leaving it unattended on my table? It'd be ripped open faster than green grass through a goose.)

Standard size lunch bags for the drumsticks,

and then some creativity since our turkey needed some parsley/kale/leafy things to rest on. Strips of white computer paper cut with slits to look like fringe,

and we're good to go.

How many do you think we can feed with a 12 pounder?

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