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November 10, 2014 | 12 Comments

Pinecone Painting & Thanksgiving Turkey Craft

Pinecone painting thanksgiving turkey craftPinecones are everywhere!  As certain as the fallen leaves, the pinecones that beg to be picked up and thrown ( hopefully not at each other) are everywhere. I decided we should create with the pinecones and what better to make right now than a Thanksgiving turkey craft ? What I love about these Thanksgiving turkey crafts is that you get to choose if you want to just do some painting with pinecones or if you want to use that painting to make a turkey craft, OR do multiple paintings and leave one as just that and create a craft with the other. Whatever you choose I hope you have as much fun as we did shaking that box and watching the paper fill with bits of color.

Gather your materials. You will need a couple of dried pinecones, some paint in any colors you want, a box that your child can handle themselves, and some great paper. If you want to turn the painting into a turkey you will also need some scissors, googly eyes, brown, red and orange paper and glue. We added some fun glitter paint for some sparkle. pinecone painting supplies

Start by placing the paper in your box and adding paint. pinecone painting activity for toddlers

Pop the pinecones in. pinecone painting for kids

Shake it up! pinecone painting for preschool

Make them roll, bang together, and generally have fun with it! pine cone painting for kids

Let it dry. pinecone painting for kids two ways

While it’s drying cut out a simple turkey torso ( do they have torsos?) , waddle, and beak. turkey craft for kids pinecone painting

Cut  the painting into a half circle. pinecone painted turkey craft for thanksgiving

Add glue for the turkey torso. pinecone painted turkeys

Add it and more glue for the eyes, beak, and waddle. thanksgiving turkey craft with pinecones

Let dry. pinecone painted turkey craft for kids

 

Books About Turkeys

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a-plump-and-perky-turkey

A Plump and Perky Turkey by Teresa Bateman is such a cute and funny book about a town that needs a turkey and the hilarious 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 when he was a toddler but he only started understanding the dark humor at around 4. I love this book because of the humor makes me giggle. My son was a little off put by the idea of the towns folk eating the turkey and was relived when he escaped before they shoved him in the oven. I like that he is starting to understand that the meat he eats is actually a cooked animal, we take that for granted but for many young kids this is a huge realization!

10 fat turkeys

10 Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston was a classroom favorite, it’s about as silly as a book gets and the kids had no clue they were actually learning about subtraction while listening to the crazy rhymes. This won’t explain the pilgrims , or talk about the Mayflower, but it will make your kids laugh! Very cute!

t is for turkey

T is for Turkey: A True Thanksgiving Storyby Tanya Lee Stone is a cute alphabet book with simple but accurate facts about Thanksgiving. I love that there is such a push for telling kids about what really happened and not just the closely held myths. The reader follows a long with a class play that covers all the important parts of the first Thanksgiving from the Mayflower landing on. This is a great introduction for young preschoolers. The illustrations are fun and rich so there is more than just the limited text to explore.

Filed Under: Age Preschool, Age: Toddlers, Preschool Crafts, Thanksgiving, Turkey | 12 Comments

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12 Comments

  1. Tiffiny says

    November 10, 2014 at 7:57 pm

    What a fun craft! My daughter is loving anything with googly eyes these days, so we will have to put this on this list. and pin. Thanks

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    • Allison McDonald says

      November 11, 2014 at 10:05 am

      Thanks!

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  2. Heidi Harris says

    November 15, 2014 at 5:41 am

    The pinecones can be used again…. they look like Christmas trees!

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  3. Skin says

    November 16, 2014 at 10:30 pm

    I remember doing crafts like this when I was younger, but I also remember being covered in paint! 🙂
    – Skin

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  4. Christine says

    November 26, 2014 at 10:04 pm

    Love love love. We made mini ones and strung them together to make a turkey garland

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    • Allison McDonald says

      November 27, 2014 at 10:07 pm

      Oh that sounds adorable!

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