Nutcracker Turkey Disguise Craft For Kids [Free Printable Template]
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Turkeys dread Thanksgiving every year, and they need a plan to keep them far away from the farmer’s plate. Keep your turkey safe from the farmer by giving it a clever disguise! This nutcracker turkey disguise turns your feathered friend into a brave nutcracker soldier ready to stand guard and avoid the holiday menu.
Kids can choose all kinds of costumes to help their turkey hide out when you browse through these turkey disguise project ideas. There’s lots of holiday fun to be had as a family with these silly disguises!
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Nutcracker Hide The Turkey Idea
This nutcracker turkey costume brings lots of imaginative fun to Thanksgiving celebrations. The turkey’s new uniform, boots, and tall hat will help it march right past the dinner table and into safety.
Making this disguise is a great workout for your little turkey’s mind and hands. They get to use their imaginations and creative thinking, coming up with their backstory and disguise, and hone their fine motor skills as they cut and paste everything together.
We have a free template available for you to download and print, which will guide kids in making their nutcracker turkeys. Gather up some colorful paper, scissors, and glue to get started on this project that will quickly become a family favorite.
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Supplies
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Nutcracker Turkey Disguise Template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)
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 nutcracker turkey to life!
Look for the hat and its decoration piece. Glue the decoration right at the bottom of the hat. This instantly makes it look like the Nutcracker’s iconic tall soldier hat.
Grab the eye pieces and glue them onto the turkey’s eyebrows.
Glue the beard piece right under the turkey’s eyes.
It’s time to give the turkey its classic look! Take the red snood and glue it onto the turkey’s face, right below the eyes.
Now, take the yellow beak and glue it right in the middle of the turkey’s face, just between the eyes.
Glue the finished hat onto the top of the turkey’s head. Now it’s really starting to look like a nutcracker in disguise!
Time to give the turkey its nutcracker uniform! Glue the finished head onto the turkey’s body.
Find the yellow belt buckle and glue it on top of the black belt.
Glue the turkey’s wings onto the sides of the red uniform, right where the arms would go. Line them up so they stick out just right.
Grab the blue leg pieces and glue them to the back and bottom of the red uniform.
Now add the black shoes by gluing them to the bottom of the legs.
Now to complete the disguise! Take the completed nutcracker and glue it to the middle of the feathers.
Your turkey is now all dressed up as a proud Nutcracker soldier! This disguise craft is a fun way for kids to get creative while practicing their fine motor skills. Be sure to check out some of our other Thanksgiving crafts for kindergarten to keep the holiday fun going.
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!
Thanksgiving Printable Crafts
Christmas Tree Turkey Disguise – This disguise will help your turkey hide in plain sight as a twinkling tree. It’s a festive way to keep our clever bird undercover and avoid the farmer’s Thanksgiving table this year.
There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkey Craft – Your little ones will gobble up this hilarious book and be excited to make the old lady to keep the fun of the story going after reading it. Kids can make her eating a turkey with the craft version or our color, cut, and paste version that’s ideal for younger kids.
Pete The Cat Thanksgiving Craft – This Thanksgiving will be extra groovy with Pete the Cat dressed as a pilgrim. Kids will give this blue feline a pilgrim hat to go along with the book, Pete the Cat: The First Thanksgiving. It’s a fun way to bring a lovable character to life and get in the holiday spirit.
Pilgrim Photo Craft – Kids will step back in time by becoming a pilgrim using their photo. They’ll love seeing their own face as the pilgrim with moveable arms and legs. It’s a fun way to learn more about Thanksgiving and create a keepsake.
Thanksgiving Activity Sheets
Little hands and minds will be busy this holiday season when they complete these Thanksgiving activity sheets. Kids will match shadows, twist through a maze from the turkey to the pie, pair up cute holiday illustrations, and learn to graph holiday items they’ve counted.
These pages will improve important early learning skills like problem solving, observation, looking for patterns and similarities, and focus. Each page will sneak in learning as they tackle the fun challenges.
Kids will uncover festive surprises like corn, a cornucopia, and a pilgrim hat in this set of Thanksgiving connect the dots. Dot to dot pages are part puzzle, part art, and all fun!
These coloring pages start out needing to be completed by kids connecting the dots which will help them practice counting and fine motor control. Once the picture is done, they can show off their inner artist and color them all in. Hit print and grab the crayons!
Give your little learners a festive way to build up their writing skills with these Thanksgiving tracing worksheets! This set includes four pages that have kids tracing and coloring alongside cute fall themed images.
They’ll practice writing upper and lowercase Pp, trace and color a turkey, and hone their fine motor skills by tracing two pages filled with wavy and zigzagging lines. It’s the kind of learning that feels more like play than work!
Bring the joy of reading to your little ones with this Thanksgiving emergent reader. Kids will love illustrating their own book. They’ll underline color words, match each turkey to the color word, and design their own turkey to add a personal touch to their book that they’ll be proud to share. Creating and reading this book will help kids learn sight words, color words, and early reading concepts with a festive twist.
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Nutcracker Turkey Disguise Project
Materials
- Colored cardstock or construction paper
- Scissors
- Glue
- Nutcracker Turkey Disguise Template
Instructions
- Download the template, print it, and cut out the pieces you need.
- Start by gluing the hat decoration onto the bottom of the hat.
- Next, glue the eyes under each eyebrow.
- Then, glue the beard just under the eyes.
- After that, add the snood right below the eyes.
- Now, glue the beak in the middle of the face, on top of the snood.
- Place the finished hat on top of the turkey’s head and glue it down.
- Attach the completed head to the body.
- Glue the belt buckle onto the belt in the center of the uniform.
- Add the wings to the sides of the uniform, gluing them to the back of the sleeves.
- Glue the legs to the back and bottom of the uniform.
- Then, glue the shoes to the front and bottom of the legs.
- To finish, glue the nutcracker to the middle of the feathers.
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Free Nutcracker Turkey Disguise Craft Template
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