A quick Thanksgiving craft for the kids

On a weekly basis, our little three year old comes home from the babysitter’s house with a special drawing or seasonal craft. I am so thankful that our sitter takes the time to sit down with the kids and work on projects with them. Hailey just loves arts and crafts.

So, yesterday, she came home with this adorable little construction paper turkey, made from her feet and hands. Such a sweet, memorable little craft! This is surely a quick little activity that you should have time to do before tomorrow’s festivities – or – even make it a special Thanksgiving Day activity for the family to do. You could surprise your kiddo’s grandparents or siblings with this special gift.

Thanksgiving craft Here is Hailey, proudly displaying her turkey. What you will need for this project is:

-Colorful construction paper
-Elmer’s glue
-A pencil
-Scissors
-Little “eyes” found at virtually every major retailer in their craft section or your local craft store.

Choose different colors of construction paper and trace your child’s hands. You can see about 8 tracings of Hailey’s hands in the picture. Trace your child’s feet, rounding off around their toes.

Cut out the traced hands and feet. Glue the two feet tracings together to make the body of the turkey (see picture) and then flip it over and glue the hands on for the feathers.

Cut out feet for the turkey, a beak and the beard thing. I can’t remember what that thing is called. Glue on the turkey’s feet, beard thing, beak and eyes.

Voila! There you have an adorable little Thanksgiving Day craft that your little one can show off to all of the relatives.

If you make this craft and take a picture of it for your blog, make sure to leave us a comment with the link so we can come over and check it out!

Author: Amy Comments: 4 comments Date: 26 Nov 2008
Categories: Activities, Family Fun Tags: arts and crafts

There are 4 comments. Leave a comment!

¬ poopsy
#10910 November 26th, 2008 at 9:50 am

Ok, I didn’t forget about our craft…it was a giant catastrophe. Didn’t work.

Nice turkey! Beard thing….you’re funny,
¬ Amy
#10919 November 26th, 2008 at 2:19 pm

Isn’t that a cute turkey? Don’t worry about your craft – hey, I didn’t even do my own. She did this with the sitter! Bad mommy. Bad.
¬ Naomi
#10937 November 26th, 2008 at 9:39 pm

She looks so proud! Roo is all about the turkeys, too. I have to get the book she made at preschool scanned in, it is hysterical…
¬ Almost always Organized mom
#10940 November 26th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

Hey Abbie made one of these last month for the Canadian Thanksgiving