Featured Artist :: Susie Hildebrandt :: Children's Thanksgiving Place Setting

This week's featured artist is Susie Hildebrandt.

The other day I was talking with a co-worker about Thanksgiving and brainstorming ideas for how to keep the kids entertained during the meal. From my experience kids like to eat for about 2.5 minutes, then what? That sparked this idea for a fun and interactive place setting, and this little turkey designed by Susie is the star of the show. 

I put him on a crayon box placed in the center of the plate, and using other shapes from the store and the sketch pens I created the coloring placemat. In addition to coloring it in, the older kids could even list what they are thankful for. Wouldn't it be fun to save and use as the base for a scrapbook layout? 

There are other fun shapes where this one came from... You can check out Susie's shapes here. 

Shapes:

turkey

3d crayon box {8 crayons}

pumpkin and hay scene

grass border