Toddler Craft: Turkey

My husband loves to encourage our 2 year old to say "gobble gobble" whenever I call her a turkey (which tends to happen a lot). It's so darn cute, and often puts me in a better mood, because a toddler saying "gobble gobble" is just about the cutest thing in the world. So, a turkey craft is perfect for any little turkey in your life!

All you need is: construction paper, glue, scissors, and googly eyes.

Family Hand-Print Turkey

There's nothing quite like kids' hand-prints to preserve just how little they were as they grew up, which is why I fell in love with the idea of a family hand-print turkey!

I can't wait to frame our turkey so I can pull it out year after year and remember how small (or big in the case of my 9 year old!) my kids' hands were in the year 2016. Look at the tiny purple hand of my 2 year old!

We traced each of our hands on construction paper. Then I traced a cup for the body of the turkey and free-handed the neck/head and beak. I printed out the "Thankful for Family" and "2016" on a piece of card stock and glued it all together.

Thank you Mainly Homemade for the cute idea! I will treasure this for years to come.

Pinecone Turkeys

I love crafts that you can make with things either already in your home or found in nature…pinecone turkeys are one such craft. For the past few weeks my boys and I have been collecting pinecones, leaves and acorns on our walks and we finally had what we needed to assemble a couple of turkeys!

This works best if you have smaller pinecones that have one side that is a little flatter so they can sit. Use hot glue to glue the acorn onto the front and dried, pressed leaves in between some of the pinecone sections, and draw some eyes on the acorns. Now you have some super cute little turkeys…perfect for decorating your Thanksgiving table!

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Pinecone Turkey

Does anyone else remember making pinecone turkeys in elementary school? I think we used construction paper for the feathers…

If you don’t have construction paper, all you need are bits of nature to make your own cute little pinecone turkey!

K has been collecting pinecones all summer and he was more than thrilled to collect various colorful leaves on a recent walk around the neighborhood. Kids can do a lot of the work including collecting supplies and if they’re old enough, the gluing.
Once your leaves have been pressed in a phone book or other heavy book for a few days, have your child glue or tell you where to glue the leaves to create a colorful tail.
Glue a small stick on the front for the neck and using two tabs from another pinecone or something like an acorn, glue that onto the stick. A piece of a red leaf glued to the bottom of the head will work great as a wattle!
These can make cute little center pieces for your Thanksgiving feast or you can release them back into the wild :)

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