Easy Thanksgiving Necklace

Last Updated on April 8, 2020 by Sheryl Cooper

For a decade or so I’ve had our preschoolers make necklaces to wear at our Thanksgiving feast. This easy Thanksgiving necklace for kids involves simple counting, like with our ladybug craft. I cut an egg carton so that there were 5 cups, one for each piece of macaroni to be strung on the necklace. Not only is this a great counting activity, but also 1:1 correspondence. Of course, what the preschoolers love is the threading, as it is one of their favorite fine motor activities. When they are finished threading the 5 macaroni pieces, we make it into a necklace!

Easy Thanksgiving Necklace

What we used for our easy Thanksgiving necklaces:

Dyed pieces of dry macaroni

Tray with dividers or marked sections, 1-10

Threading yarn with tips

Empty egg carton, cut so that it has 5 cups

Setting up this activity:

Write numbers 1 – 5 in the egg carton’s cups. Place 1 macaroni in each cup, or have the child do this for extra counting fun.

Add a piece of tape to one of the ends to label the child’s name and also to keep the macaroni from slipping off while being threaded.

Easy Thanksgiving Necklace for Kids that Involves Simple Counting - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

Making these easy Thanksgiving necklaces:

Show the child how to use the non-dominant hand (helper hand, a we call it) to hold the tip of the yarn while using the dominant hand (worker hand) to pick up and thread the macaroni.