Guest Author - Diane Claus

Hand Turkey

You will need:
-White paper
-Crayons or markers

Have the child trace his/her hand on to a piece of white paper. Have them draw an eye and a waddle on the thumb and color the fingers different colors. Feet are easy to add by drawing two lines from the bottom of the palm and adding toe lines.

Leaves and Acorn Turkey

You will need:
-Leaves
-Pine cone
-Red felt
-Orange felt
-Googly eyes
-Glue

You can either let the leaves completely dry out or you can use them when they are still a bit green, both ways will work.

The leaves will be the tail feathers of the turkey. Lay the leaves so the are slightly over lapping in an half circle. When you like the way it looks glue the leaves where they over lap. Add another row and repeat until you have a full tail of feathers. Glue the pine cone in the middle of your leaves at the bottom. Glue a yellow triangle of felt on for the beak, two googly eyes and a red felt waddle onto the pine cone. Allow to dry.

This craft can get extremely messy. If you are concerned about gluing the turkey to the table use a piece of newspaper. After it has dried, cut the newspaper so it does not show from the from.


Paper Plate Turkey

You will need:
-Paper Plate
-Craft Feathers
-Construction paper
-Glue
-Googly eyes
-Brown markers

Color the bottom side of the paper plate brown. Cut out oval shapes out of different colored construction paper for the feathers. Glue one end of the ovals onto the paper plate so that most of the oval sticks out from the plate. Repeat until you have ‘feathers’ sticking out about half way around. Cut out an oval for the body, color it brown and glue it onto the paper plate. Add eyes, an orange triangle for the beak and a red oval for the waddle.

Print out this turkey template to color, cut out and paste together.