Thanksgiving is the perfect time to be grateful for our family, friends, and all the good food! Get kids excited for the upcoming holiday with a festive craft!

This shape turkey craft will be a hit with your little turkeys and a great way for them to learn different shapes. They’ll create this cute shape craft using circles, triangles, and rectangles to piece together their feathered friend. Just follow our step-by-step directions to learn how!

If you’re hungry for more crafty learning, check out some preschool Thanksgiving crafts to keep the holiday fun going through November.

Turkey Shape Craft

Making this adorable shape turkey craft is fun and a way to sneak in some learning. As kids snip and stick the pieces together, they’ll start to recognize basic shapes without even realizing it. Gluing and cutting boost those tiny hand muscles and fine motor skills.

We have a color, cut, and paste version that’s as easy as pie for the littlest turkeys. This version has fewer pieces, so it’s a little easier for them to assemble than the craft version.

Download whichever template best suits your little turkey, gather up the craft supplies, and make learning shapes so much fun this Thanksgiving season!

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Supplies

Colored cardstock or construction paper
Scissors
Glue stick
Turkey shape craft template (click the “click here to get your freebies” image at the end of the post)

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Directions

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

First, guide your child to glue the eyes beneath both of the eyebrows.

Glue the snood in the middle of the face and a little to the side, then glue it in place. Take the beak and glue in below the eyes and covering the snood.

Next, help your child to take the turkey’s head and glue it to the top of the turkey’s body.

hands gluing turkey face onto turkey body

Place the feet at the bottom of the turkey’s body and glue them down.

Finally, encourage your child to fan out and glue the feathers to the back and top of the turkey’s head and body.

hands gluing more shape feathers onto turkey

Be sure to check out our many other animal crafts for kids! There are lots of fun choices for animal fans!

hand holding single example of finished shape turkey craft

Simple Paper Bag Pilgrim Craft

Thanksgiving Ideas For Kids

Are you looking for a cornucopia of fun Thanksgiving crafts and activities perfect for the holiday season? You’re in the right place.

These engaging crafts and educational activities will excite them for the upcoming holiday while learning and having fun!

two side by side examples of shape turkey craft

Thanksgiving Preschool Books

Children read to from an early age show better language skills, enhanced creativity, and improved cognitive function. Plus, it can help instill a lifelong love of learning and literature in your little one.

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!

hand holding shape turkey craft with another example in the background

Thanksgiving Crafts For Kids

Crafting is a fantastic way for kids to learn and grow. As they create each project, they build skills, relieve stress, and spark their imagination.

Try this Turkey Headband Craft

Choose some (or all) of our Thanksgiving crafts listed below to do with the kids this holiday season. They’re a perfect blend of learning and fun, plus they’re full of holiday spirit.

Turkey Handprint Craft for Kids—Your little ones’ handprints will make this cute turkey burst with color and personality! This fun Thanksgiving craft is the perfect way to get younger kids involved in the holiday fun and make a cute decoration!

Name Turkey Craft – This is one of our favorite easy turkey crafts! Kids will love that their turkeys feature their names! It’s a great activity for kids to do to reinforce how to spell their names and letter recognition with a cute and personalized craft!

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Paper Plate Pilgrim Craft – Have the kids talk about what they’re grateful for when bringing this pilgrim to life! Kids can learn more about the pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving when they make this craft from a plain old paper plate!

Handprint Pilgrim Craft – Keep those little hands busy this Thanksgiving with this cute handprint craft! This customizable pilgrim is a fun way to introduce kids to the story of the First Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Activities For Kids

Kids can give their brains a workout with these festive Thanksgiving pattern block mats! They’ll use their tangrams to solve the puzzles by placing the correct shape on the mat.

The mats are filled with colorful Thanksgiving illustrations, such as a turkey, pilgrim, pumpkins, and more, to get kids in the holiday spirit. They’re great to use during quiet time or anytime you have a little downtime.

These printable turkey worksheets for kids are a fun and festive way for them to practice their handwriting skills, recognize the letter T, and learn more about the parts of a turkey.

They’ll first navigate through a letter maze by following the path of uppercase and lowercase Tt’s. They’ll then practice writing them with the help of the dotted lines, then label a turkey drawing.

Related: Roll A Turkey Printable

Get your kids to discover the excitement of learning with these engaging Thanksgiving do a dot printables this fall.

They’re perfect for preschool to kindergarten children to learn letters, numbers, beginning sounds, shapes and more. Download the worksheets and kids will have a blast coloring in Thanksgiving themed dot coloring pages as well!

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Your little math whizzes will have a blast with these pilgrim printables. These worksheets are the perfect way for kids to practice their handwriting by writing out number words and numbers.

They’ll also use simple math concepts, counting from 1 to 10 by filling in the tens frame with the pilgrims! These are great for kids to use at home or in the classroom to get extra practice mastering math this Thanksgiving!

Looking for Thanksgiving fun and learning for your kids? Look no further than this Thanksgiving fun bundle! It’s packed with 79 pages of Thanksgiving-themed worksheets, do a dot printables, family activities, and more.

This is the perfect way to get your kids excited about Thanksgiving and help them learn all about this special holiday. So don’t wait – grab the Thanksgiving printables bundle today!

Turkey Popsicle Stick Craft

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