Thanksgiving Hand Turkey Craft - Easy Crafts For Kids

Instructions

Step #1:

turkey body craft

Using a piece of brown paper, cut out a peanut shape. Make one half of your peanut shape a little fatter than the other. This will be your turkey’s body.

Step #2:

Cut out turkey wings

Out of the same brown paper, cut out two equally shaped wings.

hand turkey craft step by step

Glue one on each side of your turkey’s body. Slightly bend each one outward so your turkeys’ wings stick out a little bit. Step #3:

turkey from hand

Cut two eyes out of white paper, using your black marker to draw in the pupils. Make bigger eyes to give your turkey a more cartoon look.

Using orange paper, cut out a triangle for its beak. Finally, using red construction paper cut out a wattle.

Note: A wattle is the piece of red skin that hangs around the turkeys’ beak.

Once these are all cut out, glue them in place.

Step #4:

Cut turkey feet out of orange construction paper

Using the same orange paper as you did for your beak, cut out two equally sized feet. Glue them in place.

Step #5:

handprints for turkey

Trace your hands 8 times. Use red, orange, yellow construction paper – creating two hands from each color. This is basically how to draw a turkey wings from hand.

Handprint Turkey Craft Picture

Cut out these eight hand prints. Lay out the prints with the thumbs facing upward, three on each side (one of each color). Glue these together.

Step #6:

How to make a handprint turkey

Glue your turkey body in the middle of your hand prints.

Now you can have a yummy cooked turkey on the table and a cute live turkey on the wall!

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