turkey craft

Had a playdate over the weekend with our 3.5 year old and his cousin from California (who is 2.5 years old).  I have been looking for some easy Thanksgiving crafts that requires only 20 minutes of attention.  I found this great turkey craft, cut out and glued the basics in 5 minutes and am ready!

NEED:  Stick glue, adult scissors and kid scissors (if they are ready), construction paper (brown, red, yellow, orange, green, etc),  small piece of white and black paper for eyes or the wiggle eyes you can purchase.

• Trace around the bottom of the child's shoes on brown craft paper and cut them out.  These will be the body of the turkey (see above).  Glue the heel ends together (head area).
• With red paper, cut out a triangle with the long edge slightly rounded to make the wattle.  With orange paper cut out a small thin triangle for the beak.  Glue into place.
• Cut out two oval shapes out of white paper and glue for the eyes.  Then use a paper hole puncher to make two black dots to finish the eyes.  Glue on the white ovals. Or use the wiggle eyes you can purchase from a craft store.
  
• Cut out legs in the orange paper and glue to the back of the body.
  
• Use yellow, red, and orange paper for the feathers.  Trace around the child's hand on the paper, cut out to make six "feathers".  Glue behind the body of the Turkey.  

So cute!  They loved tracing their hand and gluing the "feathers" onto the bird. You can find this craft and more at enchantedlearing.com.