Construction Paper Turkey
Difficulty: Easy
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Parental supervision is recommended
Dish out the Thanksgiving fun with this construction paper turkey craft. You can keep kids busy while the bird is cooking and finish up with a cute centerpiece for the table.
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What you'll need:
- 2 toilet paper tubes
- Brown construction paper
- Yellow construction paper
- Red construction paper
- White construction paper
- Black construction paper
- Pencil
- Glue
- Scissors
- Tempera or watercolor paints
- Paintbrush
- Stapler
How to make it:
- Trace around your child's hand on a piece of white construction paper. Note: You may wish to trace a larger area around your child's hand to make the turkey feathers bigger and also make it easier for your child to cut out.
- Cut out the pattern.
- Paint the hand pattern with different colors of paints.
- Let the paint dry.
- Cut one of the toilet paper tubes in half. (You will only need one piece)
- Cut out brown construction paper to fit around the two toilet paper tubes and staple the paper onto the tubes.
- Staple the two tubes together, the shorter one on top of the longer one.
- Cut out a beak and some feet out from the yellow construction paper, a gobbler out of red construction paper, and eyes out of the white and black construction paper.
- Attach the eyes, beak, feet, and gobbler to the tubes with glue. (See photo)
- Staple the feathers to the back of the tubes when the feathers are dry.
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