It seems those itty-bitty hands grow bigger overnight. That’s one reason so many parents of toddlers and preschoolers love handprint crafts.
I admit it, I’m a sucker for handprint crafts, myself.
Watching my children as they finished this colorful handprint Turkey craft, I knew this would be a Thanksgiving craft I would keep for years to come.
This simple turkey craft is a fun toddler or preschooler craft for Thanksgiving or fall.
Younger kids will also like making this paper cup turkey.
Handprint Turkey Craft
Start by tracing your child’s feet on brown paper. For this craft, don’t bother tracing around each of their individual little toes.
Cut the footprints out.
To make your turkey’s body, glue the heels of the footprints together with the toe portions facing opposite ways. The footprints will form a triangle.
The overlapped heels will form the turkeys head, while the toe sections form his lower body.
To make the turkey’s colorful tail feathers, trace your child’s hands on several colors of paper.
Glue 5 hand prints to the turkey’s back to form his tail.
Glue 2 more to his front to form wings.
Cut out a small orange or yellow diamond shape and fold it in half to form the beak.
Have your child cut out a wiggly red wattle to add to the turkey. They can also make legs from orange or brown construction paper.
Glue all these parts in place.
Your child can draw on eyes, cut them out of construction paper like we did, or use wiggly eyes to finish the craft.
When you are finished crafting you will have a completely unique handprint turkey craft for each child. Be sure to put the date on the back of them because you’ll want to keep these cuties!
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cindy says
Those are very cute turkeys and I’m sure the kids had lots of fun making them:-) The two year old I’ve been watching will enjoy that idea since he loves to have his hand traced:-)
OneMommy says
Oh, I am sure he will love it — and speaking as a mommy, I’m pretty sure his parents will like it too!
Chris Carter says
SOOOO CUTE!!! I am not the craftiest mom… so I will be doing suncatchers with my kids to make for Christmas gifts. I know, boring right? (Sigh)
OneMommy says
No, I think suncatchers sound like lovely gifts from the kids! I should do a craft for a gift instead of taking them to the dollar store this year. There is only so much de-icer the guys can use, right?
Sara says
I love this, I’ve been looking for a Thanksgiving craft to do with the kids this week and now I’ve found the perfect one! Thanks for sharing! =)
OneMommy says
Hope they have fun with it!
OneMommy says
Hope your little one enjoys it as much as mine did!
Dawn says
These are cute turkeys! They did a wonderful job making their turkeys 🙂 Kids have so much fun with crafts and it is great to let them be creative.
Donna DM Yates says
So creative. I love it.
Teaching Tiny Tots says
Here is one of ours Tear Turkey
OneMommy says
Thanks for sharing! I’ll add it to my post when I put it up this week! 🙂
Christy says
I have yet to do this craft with my girls – thanks for the idea. We may get to this craft this week 🙂
OneMommy says
I am going to admit it… I still have the ones we made 4 years ago. I just can’t get rid of them.