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Handprint Turkey Craft

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Many years I feel like we celebrate Halloween, blink, and then it’s Christmas. I feel like we blow right past Thanksgiving if we are not intentional and make it a point to focus on the holiday. We make sure to get in plenty of fun Thanksgiving activities like this Handprint Turkey Craft before we move onto Christmas. Your kids are sure to have fun with it too!

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This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

Handprint Turkey Craft

I love how this turkey craft turns out! I’m a huge sucker for adorable handprint crafts. Kids grow so quickly, and as a parent I always treasure art and crafts made with their handprints.

Preparation

To get started on your handprint turkey craft, first gather all your supplies:

You need brown paper for the turkey’s body, red paper for the gobbler/wattle, orange paper for the beak, and a variety of colors for the feathers.

This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

Making the Turkey

To get started, trace your child or student’s hands on different colored paper for the turkey’s feathers.

We made four handprint feathers for our turkey craft.

This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

Next, cut a round circle from brown paper. We used a circle craft punch.

This will be the turkey’s body. Cut a beak from the orange paper and gobbler/wattle from the red paper.

This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

We then glued the handprint feathers to the back of the brown circle, and glued the beak and gobbler/wattle to the front.

Finally, we glued on two google eyes above the beak.

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This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

The turkey was almost complete!

To finish it off, we attached two clothespins to the bottom of the brown circle for the turkey’s legs. Squeezing the clothespins is a great fine motor activity.

This handprint turkey craft is such an adorable thanksgiving craft for kids! Easy to make and a fun keepsake to take home too.

This handprint turkey craft is so fun and also so simple to make! It is the perfect keepsake and something that you are sure to keep for years to come.

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Kim is a medical social worker turned stay at home mom to three. She enjoys sharing simple crafts and activities, parenting and homemaking tips, and a lot of holiday and seasonal fun at The Resourceful Mama.

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