After seeing my foam turkey after from nap my son asked to make one , which means he said ” urkey yeah yeah, urkey pease pease” but I knew what he meant. So I grabbed a paper plate and made a more toddler friendly version of a Thanksgiving Turkey!
- Gather your materials. You will need a paper plate, some markers ( crayons, or paint would work too) , s few colors of tissue paper, glue and scissors.
- Have your child color the paper plate, my son did not want to move on past this step, coloring is where it’s at at our house lately. He colored 2 other paper plates while I tried to convince him that glue was cool too.
- While they color cut out some feathers from the tissue paper.
- Cut the plate in half, and cut a small triangle off of the discarded half, this will be your turkey head.
- Add glue to the inside lip of the paper plate.
- Add your feathers, at first my son was refusing to do this, so I let him keep coloring and soon enough, he was asking to do it after watching me.
- While they glue, make a face on the “head” .
- When all the feathers are on glue on the head. Let dry .
Books
A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman is such a cute and funny book about a town that needs a turkey and the lengths they go to to find one. The town is sadly outwitted by the turkey and end up eating shredded wheat for thanksgiving. The illustrations kept my little man interested even though the story’s humor was above his head.
Thanksgiving is for giving thanks by Margaret Sutherland is book that explains what Thanksgiving is, and gives lots of examples of things to be thankful for. I like this book although I could go without the page where the narrator is thankful for lollipops, all the other things are wonderful like a teacher’s encouragement, grandma’s hugs, and sunny days and to me the lollipops sorta fall flat. Easily skipped over if you are not keen on it but the book as a whole is valuable teaching tool about thanksgiving.
6 Responses to “Paper Plate Turkey Craft”
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Your ideas are simply wonderful. I love a new post on your site! I love trying out your craft ideas with my little ones!
THANK YOU!!!
These are adorable! I just blogged about a great turkey craft I got from http://www.kaboodle.com. You can see it at my blog here Jolly Mom
BTW, your whole blog is awesome!!
Very cute!
This is super cute! I’ll be linking to it in my next kid’s roundup!
I did this craft with my 3.5 yo today. It was fun and such a cute idea (as is everything on your site!) We plan to do the corn next!
Thank you!