Stress-Free Turkey Day: 30 Activities for Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Recipes for the Slow Cooker

By: Jessica Nichols, Editor, AllFreeHolidayCrafts.com

Want to know the secret to staying calm during the holidays? Let your slow cooker make dinner, and spend some quality time crafting with your family. Stress-Free Turkey Day: 30 Activities for Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Recipes for the Slow Cooker will help you do just that. This collection includes crafty activities for Thanksgiving that will get the whole family involved. Whether you craft Thanksgiving puppets or toys ahead of time and let children play with them during your holiday gathering, or you get people involved in making a Thanksgiving craft together, these activities will help you relax and have fun on Turkey Day instead of stressing out about table settings and green bean casseroles. To really make the cooking easy, we've also included some easy Thanksgiving recipes from our friends at AllFreeSlowCookerRecipes.com so you can toss all the ingredients for dinner in your slow cooker and have a feast a few hours later without doing a lick of cooking!

Thanksgiving Activities for Kids

Thanksgiving Paper Crafts

Thanksgiving Crafts to Show Your Gratitude

Slow Cooker Turkey Recipes

Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes

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Thanksgiving Activities for Kids

Make these toys and games to keep the kids busy during your Thanksgiving gathering. Crafting these Thanksgiving activities will help you look forward to Turkey Day, and they'll be a fun diversion between dinner and dessert.

Thanksgiving Paper Crafts

If you enjoy paper crafting, you'll love these paper crafts designed to help you celebrate Thanksgiving. Get your family together to make these Thanksgiving crafts ahead of time, and use them to celebrate on the big day. These crafts are a great way to use all your fall-themed scrapbook papers.

Thanksgiving Crafts to Show Your Gratitude

Colorful swatches of felt are all you need to give your Thanksgiving crafts that cozy fall feeling. These felt crafts help you focus on all the wonderful things about Thanksgiving and forget about the stress of hosting a feast.

Slow Cooker Turkey Recipes

Wouldn't it be nice if you could toss a whole turkey in the slow cooker and have it come out perfectly roasted six hours later? Even though that's not likely, there are some creative ways to prepare Thanksgiving turkey recipes in your slow cooker. They are especially useful for smaller Thanksgiving celebrations, where you can get away with making just a turkey breast instead of a whole bird.

Thanksgiving Side Dish Recipes

Put your turkey in the oven early Thanksgiving morning, pop one of these side dishes in the slow cooker for a few hours, and spend the day bonding with family instead of bustling around the kitchen. Making a side dish in the slow cooker will give you one less thing to put on your to-do list for Turkey Day.