Turkey Craft Template and Activities for Kids
Check out these printable turkey crafts and activities. Plus, get ideas for turkey books your kids will love this year and lots of Thanksgiving activities to enjoy too. Plus, grab this free printable turkey craft template and fun activities to share with your kids.
Turkey Craft Template and Activities
These printable Thanksgiving activities can make it easy to have fun with your kids this Fall. They’re perfect for spending quality time crafting with your little ones and their cousins this Thanksgiving. They work well in the classroom with Thanksgiving lessons in homeschool, or just for fun.
Gobble gobble! It’s almost turkey time. Are you ready to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday with fun and whimsy this November?
Keep reading to discover what’s included in this printable turkey craft template and activity bundle.
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How to Draw a Turkey
Drawing has awesome benefits for kids of all ages. You can use this printable how to draw a turkey activity with your kindergarteners this Fall to help practice fine motor skills, creative expression, and build hand-eye coordination.
Check out more of the benefits your kids will earn from drawing these cute turkeys:
- Practice fine motor skills
- Develop visual analysis
- Build concentration
- Improve hand-eye coordination
- Promote Self-confidence
- Encourage creative thinking
In this printable Thanksgiving activities bundle, your kindergarteners can learn how to draw their own Thanksgiving turkeys in six easy steps. Then, they’ll get to practice concentration, patience, and explore colors as they color their new gobbling friend. Plus, they’ll get to practice handwriting skills by writing a sentence about their turkey at the bottom of this cute Thanksgiving printable too.
Build a Turkey Craft
After creating their own two-dimensional turkey friends, your kindergartners can get crafty and develop STEM skills as they use this printable to build a turkey craft template to create their own three-dimensional feathered friends.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- 1 Build a turkey template printed on cardstock paper
- Small, sharp safety scissors
- Glue stick and regular glue
- Wooden popsicle stick
- Adult hands to help little hands if needed
This craft is sure to create some super cute Thanksgiving turkeys to decorate your table for the big feast this year. It’s a great way to help kindergarteners practice cutting, pasting, and problem-solving too.
Begin by printing the turkey activity book with a turkey craft template. Then, cut out each turkey body part and shape on the printable. Finally, work together to use the pieces to construct your very own Thanksgiving turkey this November.
I can’t wait to see the cute turkeys my kids come up with this year using this cute Turkey craft template! How about you?
Use scissors to cut out each turkey piece. It’s okay if your pieces aren’t cut perfectly, your
puppet will still look great.
Glue the turkey’s head onto its body section.
Next, center and glue the body and head onto the large turkey wings.
Glue the smaller side-wings to each side. Tuck the sharp wing tips under the turkey’s neck.
Glue the claws(feet) onto the back of the turkey, at the bottom.
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Finally, use some regular craft glue to adhere the back of your turkey to a popsicle stick.
Don’t forget to come back and share your paper turkey projects in the comment section.
Thanksgiving Writing Activities
Writing activities encourage kindergarteners to express themselves. Writing activities help kids learn to think critically, organize their thoughts, and communicate ideas.
With the no-prep Thanksgiving writing activities in this printable bundle, your kids can practice expressing themselves through writing this November.
As an added bonus this Thanksgiving, these writing activities will help kids practice proper penmanship and become better readers in the future.
On this printable, your early writers will be encouraged to complete copywork with a Thanksgiving turkey theme, invent their own Thanksgiving story, and build vocabulary by thinking of other words that begin with the letter T.
Favorite Turkey Books and Stories for Kids
Once your kindergartners have finished building their own turkey crafts and inventing their own Thanksgiving turkey stories, I hope you’ll check out some more turkey tales together too.
Reading books aloud to my children is one of my favorite pastimes. It’s a fantastic way to help them fall in love with books and prepare to read from a very early age.
This Thanksgiving, you can explore some of my favorite turkey tales along with these turkey crafts and Thanksgiving activities for kindergartners.
Check out some of my most beloved Thanksgiving read alouds:
Five Silly Turkeys by Salina Yoon
10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston
A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey by Lucille Colandro
‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
The Very Stuffed Turkey by Katherine Kenah
Turkey Trouble by Wendy Silvano and Lee Harper
Too Many Turkeys by Linda White and Megan Lloyd
Turkey Trouble on the National Mall by Ron Roy and Timothy Bush
Not This Turkey! by Jessica Steinberg and Amanda Pike
More Thanksgiving Activities You’ll Love
If you’re looking for more Thanksgiving activities, printables, and lesson plans for your kids this November, you’re in the right place. I’ve got lots of cute crafts, no-prep printables, and fun activities for Thanksgiving you can do with your kiddos this Fall.
Check out a few favorites:
Fun and Free Printable Thanksgiving Activities for Kids
This cute free printable bundle is filled with Thanksgiving activities for kids of all ages. You’ll love the coloring pages and Thanksgiving I-spy printable game. There are activities to encourage gratitude and kindness this November as well.
Gratitude Tree Craft for Kids
This exciting activity is perfect for encouraging the whole family to express gratitude and spread kindness this Thanksgiving season. Everyone can write what they’re thankful for on the leaves to create a unique holiday decoration for the season that’s a Thanksgiving daily gratitude exercise too.
Homemade Puffy Paint Turkeys
It’s an easy Thanksgiving turkey painting craft your kids will love! You can use this simple homemade recipe to make your own puffy paint for creating some really cute gobblers this November. It’s an excellent sensory experience for young children too.
Turkey Life Cycle Activities
Learning about life cycles with kindergartners helps them begin to understand the natural world. You can use these turkey life cycle activities to explore the natural order of things with your kindergartners while teaching them all about Thanksgiving turkeys too.
You’ll love the no-prep printable activities and file folder games in these activities and lesson plans.
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I hope your early learners have as much fun with this printable Thanksgiving activity book as I did making it.
Don’t forget to come back and share your favorite Turkey activities and crafts in the comment section. I can’t wait to read them!