What you'll need:
- Orange construction paper
- Brown construction paper
- Paper plates
- Circle brads / paper fasteners
- Cotton balls
- Glue sticks
- Hot glue gun
- Markers
- Scissors
Instructions:
- Make the crust. Cut brown paper into strips. Fold some strips back and forth like an accordion, then glue them around the edge of the paper plate.
- Add the filling. Cut two large circles from orange paper and glue one to the plate, leaving the brown crust visible.
- Cut a slice. Carefully cut one pie-shaped wedge from the other orange circle.
- Share your thanks. Write things you’re grateful for all over the orange paper plate. Ask an adult to help fasten the second orange circle with the cut-out slice to the center with a brad. Turn the slice to reveal what you wrote!
- Add the lattice (optional). Lay thin brown paper strips across the pie in one direction, then place more strips across them in the other direction to make a crisscross pattern. Glue the strips in place, keeping them clear of the turning slice and brad.
- Top it off. Ask an adult to hot-glue cotton balls onto the pie to look like whipped cream dollops. Let the glue cool before touching your craft.