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Ballerina Turkey Disguise Craft For Kids [Free Template]

Thanksgiving is right around the corner and the kids are looking forward to all the fun fall activities.

But guess what? Ms. Turkey certainly isn’t looking forward to the holiday! She is trying to hide out this Thanksgiving to avoid the dinner table and needs the perfect disguise.

Let’s help her out with this super cute ballerina turkey disguise. We think your little ones will love this turkey project disguise.

While your kiddos are helping their paper turkey go undercover with her printable disguise, they’re also working on developing their creativity, following directions, and scissor skills.

After you have a ballerina twirling around in disguise, be sure to check out all of our turkey disguise project crafts. We’ve got lots of fun disguise ideas, complete with printable outfits, for your kids to choose from!

Disguise A Turkey Ballerina

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Turkey Disguise Project Supplies

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Turkey in disguise ballerina template (click the “click here to get this freebie” image at the end to open the form)

How To Disguise A Turkey As A Ballerina

Download the free turkey template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.

hands holding ballerina turkey disguise craft template

Start by gluing the hair to the top of the turkey’s head.

hand gluing hair to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Take the top and glue it to the turkey’s body.

hand gluing top to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Next, take the skirt and glue it to the lower portion of the top.

hand gluing skirt to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Position the wings on either side of the body and glue them in place.

hand gluing wing to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Glue the shoes onto the bottom of the feet. Alternatively, you can have your child color the shoes on with a marker.

hand gluing shoes to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Next, glue the snood to the middle of the head, below the eyes.

hand gluing snood to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Place the beak on top of the snood and glue it in place.

hand gluing beak to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Finish up by gluing the turkey ballerina to the middle of the feathers.

hand gluing feathers to ballerina turkey disguise craft

Anyone who loves ballerinas is going to love this cute Thanksgiving craft for kids! Kids of all ages will have so much fun making their turkey in disguise ballerina craft – it’s the perfect school or family project.

hand holding ballerina turkey disguise craft

More Thanksgiving Ideas

Thanksgiving Ideas For Kids

Get the kids involved and excited to learn all about Thanksgiving with crafts and activities. We have lots of ideas to keep them engaged this holiday season. Keep reading to discover some of our favorites.

hand holding ballerina turkey disguise craft with a second one in the background

Children’s Thanksgiving Books

Reading to young children is not just a way to pass the time. It’s an important part of their development. When parents read to their children, they are helping them to develop language skills.

They are also teaching them about the world around them. It’s a special time when the child can sit with their parent and listen to a story. And it’s a time when the parent can share their love of reading with their child!

Below are some of the top Thanksgiving books for kids:

Turkey Trouble – If you’ve never read this book, you have to add it to your holiday collection! It’s so cute and fun and kids just love it! Follow the turkey around the farm as he disguises himself as different animals so the farmer doesn’t catch him for Thanksgiving dinner!

How To Catch A Turkey – Kids who love the How To Catch books will want to see all the crazy contraptions kids make to try to catch a turkey loose at the school!

Pete The Cat: The First Thanksgiving -Every Pete the Cat book is fantastic, but this one takes it up a notch with flaps for the kids to open. It’s an easy way to get the kids excited about reading and Thanksgiving!

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Thanksgiving Kids’ Crafts

Crafting is a great activity for kids because it gives them a chance to be creative and work on valuable skills. Children gain fine motor skills, scissor skills, and hand-eye coordination when they craft.

It’s also a clever way to teach them patience since sometimes you have to wait to do the next step! Keep your crafts simple with construction paper and glue, or add pom poms, cotton balls, and craft sticks for added texture and dimension.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to get creative and have some fun! Whether you’re looking for fun school projects or for something to do at home, here are some of our favorite Thanksgiving crafts. They come with free printable templates, too!

Toilet Paper Roll Pilgrim Craft – Recycle your toilet paper rolls by turning them into cute pilgrims! This is a quick and easy Thanksgiving craft to do with your kids at home or at school.

This craft is also great for encouraging independent work in preschool and kindergarten kids! Print out the blank template on colored paper or black and white for them to color in.

Name Turkey Craft – This is such a creative way to help your kids learn to spell their names! The feathers of the turkey spell it out, so it’s a fun, individualized craft for your kids.

The free template can either be printed on colored paper or black and white so the kids can have fun coloring in their own turkeys. They’ll practice their scissor skills when they cut out all the parts of the turkey, and their fine motor skills when they glue them in place.

Thanksgiving kids craft image collage

Paper Bag Pilgrim Craft – These pilgrim puppets are a great Thanksgiving craft! This craft comes with a free printable to make it easy to create your paper bag puppet at home, daycare, or school! It’s an easy craft using basic supplies that the kids will be able to play pretend with once completed.

Acorn Craft for Kids – This is the cutest little acorn to get into the fall spirit with! All you need is some basic craft supplies and your kids will be ready to create their very own acorn character. This is a great craft for preschoolers through kindergarteners to work on fine motor skills and following directions.

Kids’ Thanksgiving Activities

We love fun educational games for immersive learning, so we think your little ones will have a blast playing this roll a turkey printable game! While the kids are having fun trying to fill in all their turkey’s feathers, they’re also learning.

This turkey activity helps kids work on counting, colors, and patience! Get these printables and roll a dice to help Mr. Turkey fill in all his feathers!

If you need a no-prep activity for busy moms or are looking for something to add to your lesson plans, your kids will love these turkey coloring pages. Coloring is a great way to help kids develop their motor skills and creativity, so be sure to get this free coloring page set.

Which turkey picture will your kids color in and display this Thanksgiving holiday? There’s 4 to choose from!

collage of thanksgiving activities

Set these Thanksgiving I Spy printables out at the kids’ Thanksgiving table or any time around the holiday for a fun activity to do. The kids will love to find all the hidden pictures in these different I Spy pages.

These pages will help children with visual recognition and staying focused. In this set, there are easy and hard versions to tailor to your child’s needs. This is also a great set to laminate to be able to use again and again.

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Share With Us

Did you make this craft with your kids or students? We’d love to feature them on our social media!

For a chance to have your child’s craft featured, simply snap a picture of the completed project and post it to our Facebook page, email it to us directly by clicking here, or use #simpleeverydaymom on your social media!

More Thanksgiving Ideas

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Ballerina Turkey Disguise Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 10 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 25 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Your little turkeys will love helping hide Ms. Turkey with this cute ballerina turkey disguise craft!

Materials

  • Colored cardstock or construction paper
  • Scissors
  • Glue
  • Turkey template

Instructions

  1. Download the turkey template, print, and cut out the pieces you need.
  2. Start by gluing the hair to the top of the turkey's head. hand gluing hair to ballerina turkey disguise craft
  3. Take the top and glue it to the turkey's body.
  4. Next, take the skirt and glue it to the lower portion of the top.
  5. Position the wings on either side of the body and glue them in place. hand gluing feathers to ballerina turkey disguise craft
  6. Glue the shoes onto the bottom of the feet. Alternatively, you can have your child color the shoes on with a marker.
  7. Next, glue the snood to the middle of the head, below the eyes.
  8. Place the beak on top of the snood and glue it in place. hand gluing beak to ballerina turkey disguise craft
  9. Finish up by gluing the turkey ballerina to the middle of the feathers.

Did you make this craft?

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Turkey In Disguise Template

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Monica

Friday 10th of November 2023

Thank you for the ballerina Turkey

Sam

Friday 10th of November 2023

You're welcome!

jenny

Thursday 9th of November 2023

I would love if I could have a copy, please! thank you.

Sam

Thursday 9th of November 2023

Of course! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the link sent to you. Once you've been confirmed as an email subscriber (by clicking the link in the first email), you simply enter your email in any of the forms and it'll automatically redirect you to the download page.

Liz

Monday 6th of November 2023

I would like to get the ballerina turkey template!

Sam

Monday 6th of November 2023

Of course! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the link sent to you. Once you've been confirmed as an email subscriber (by clicking the link in the first email), you simply enter your email in any of the forms and it'll automatically redirect you to the download page.

Colleen

Thursday 2nd of November 2023

This so cute. My students love this story

Sam

Thursday 2nd of November 2023

Oh, good! And thank you!

Maya

Tuesday 22nd of November 2022

Template please

Sam

Wednesday 23rd of November 2022

Of course! All you need to do is enter your email in the form at the end of this post to have the link sent to you ?

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