Celebrate the season in a fun and personalized way when kids make this turkey name craft. Each child will love seeing their name displayed on a festive turkey’s tail feathers that spell it out one letter at a time.

Kids will love showing off their turkey, whether it’s hanging on a classroom wall or decorating the fridge at home. After they’ve made their turkeys, stick around and explore even more turkey activities for kids that keep little hands busy and brains engaged this Thanksgiving season.

Two completed turkey name crafts made from construction paper, each with feathers spelling out “Emma” and “Aiden,” as part of a Thanksgiving-themed activity for kids to practice name recognition and fine motor skills.

Name Turkey Craft

This preschool Thanksgiving craft is a gobbling good way to combine fun and learning when kids piece together their turkey by arranging tail feathers to spell out their names. Each feather that they put in order will give them practice spelling their name and work on letter recognition.

Use our free editable template to customize the feathers with each child’s name, or leave them blank so kids can practice writing the letters themselves. Either way, it’s a low prep activity with lots of smiles in store.

Spend a cozy fall afternoon putting together this cheerful turkey. It’s a great chance for kids to get creative, practice important skills, and make something they’ll be proud to show to family and friends!

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Marker
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A fully colored-in paper turkey craft is shown with five orange feathers spelling out the name “Olive,” highlighting a preschool-friendly, color-your-own version of the Thanksgiving activity.

Directions

Start by downloading and printing the template. Once the template is printed, gather the materials for this fun activity. Get those scissors ready, and let’s help the kids bring this turkey to life!

A person is holding a black-and-white printable turkey craft template for kids, featuring an outlined turkey body and wings ready to be colored, cut, and assembled—perfect for a Thanksgiving activity.

Grab the turkey body cutout. Then take the eye pieces and glue them just below the eyebrows on the turkey’s head.

Hands are gluing on the eyes to a brown paper turkey cutout as part of assembling a Thanksgiving-themed craft for kids.

Take the yellow beak and the red snood (that little wiggly piece). Help your child glue the snood behind the beak to make one piece.

Hands are assembling the turkey’s beak and smile by gluing together small paper pieces, preparing to attach the finished mouth to the main body of the Thanksgiving kids craft.

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Time to add that cute little beak! Glue it right under the eyes on the turkey’s eyes.

Hands are gluing the completed beak and smiling mouth onto the face of a brown paper turkey cutout as part of a Thanksgiving craft activity for kids.

Now let’s give the turkey some wings. Paste one on each side of the body.

Hands are attaching the wings to the sides of a paper turkey cutout, continuing the step-by-step assembly of a Thanksgiving kids craft.

Grab those two little orange feet and glue them to the bottom of the body.

Hands are gluing orange feet to the bottom of a paper turkey cutout, completing the main body assembly of this Thanksgiving kids craft.

Time to spell their name! Line up the feathers in order to spell out your child’s name, curved like a fan. Have your child help identify each letter and say it out loud. It’s a fun way to sneak in a little letter practice.

Hands are arranging five orange paper feathers in a fan shape, each labeled with a letter to spell the name “Aiden” as part of a personalized Thanksgiving turkey craft for kids.

Now, carefully glue the turkey body onto the bottom center of the feather fan. Press and hold for a few seconds so it stays secure.

Hands are attaching the completed turkey body to the fan of labeled feathers that spell out “Aiden,” finishing this personalized Thanksgiving name craft for kids.

Don’t you just love how cute and personal this is already? If your kids enjoy name crafts like this, be sure to check out more personalized name crafts for kids while you’re here!

A hand is holding a completed turkey name craft with red feathers spelling out “Emma,” surrounded by craft supplies like scissors, glue sticks, and colored paper—capturing a festive Thanksgiving activity setup for kids.

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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 a great way to get the kids excited about reading and Thanksgiving!

A completed turkey name craft is shown with orange paper feathers spelling out “Aiden,” featuring a smiling turkey made from brown, yellow, and red paper—part of a fun and personalized Thanksgiving activity for kids.

Fun Crafts For Thanksgiving

Disguise A Turkey Tiger Craft – This Thanksgiving, help your sneaky turkey stay off the dinner table by turning him into a fierce, striped tiger! Kids can give their turkey a roar-some disguise that’s sure to fool everyone with some colored paper and a wild imagination.

Paper Strip Turkey Craft – Kids will loop and glue their way to an adorable turkey with this hands-on project! Every colorful feather they add will help them build fine motor skills and holiday excitement. It’s a fun way to celebrate the season, and their cute turkeys will brighten up any festive space!

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Cupcake Liner Turkey Craft – Turn cupcake liners into colorful turkey tail feathers and let kids create a gobble-worthy masterpiece! Whether they stick with fall colors or go wild with a rainbow of colors, it’s a fun way to build fine motor skills and holiday cheer. Download the free template and your kiddos will have a little gobbler in no time.

Pilgrim Photo Craft – Let kids become part of the Thanksgiving fun by turning themselves into a pilgrim! Just add their photo for the face, and watch their excitement grow as they create either a boy or girl pilgrim. It’s a sweet and memorable way to celebrate the holiday with a personal touch!

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Thanksgiving Printable Worksheets

Bring a dash of Thanksgiving fun into your learning time with these free printable pilgrim worksheets! Kids can learn more about pilgrims through these activities that also build early literacy and fine motor skills.

They’ll trace the letter Pp, label parts of a pilgrim, and navigate their way through a letter maze. Each page keeps little learners engaged and smiling, and they’re a fun and festive way to introduce history while helping important skills take shape one worksheet at a time!

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Keep little hands busy and minds engaged with these fun filled Thanksgiving activity sheets! While the turkey’s in the oven, kids can get into shadow matching, twist and turn through a Thanksgiving maze, count and graph festive items, and match objects.

These worksheets offer a playful way to build foundational skills like problem solving, visual discrimination, and fine motor skills while celebrating the Thanksgiving season.

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Kids will gobble up some skill building fun this season with our Thanksgiving cutting practice worksheets! They’re packed with pumpkins, turkeys, and seasonal characters to make scissors practice fun and engaging.

Little learners will love tracing along zigzags and curves, guiding their scissors while giving their hand muscles a great workout.

Two of the pages blend in a bit of counting, turning math into a game! These playful pages build fine motor strength, hand-eye coordination, and focus along with some fall themed fun.

A finished turkey name craft is displayed with red paper feathers spelling out “Emma,” featuring a cheerful paper turkey made from layered cutouts—part of a Thanksgiving-themed activity designed for kids.

Make learning a treat with these Thanksgiving preschool printables! Kids will color, trace, count, and match their way through turkeys, pies, and fun holiday themes. They’ll find shapes in yummy foods, help a turkey through a tricky maze, and more. Each activity builds big skills in a way that feels like festive fun.

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