Thanksgiving is quickly approaching and that means it’s time to make some cute holiday crafts.

We recently made this toilet paper roll turkey craft in our home and it was a huge hit!

It is a great way to get rid of some of those toilet paper rolls you always have saved up plus it’s a fun activities for young kids of all ages.

If you want a simple and quick Thanksgiving craft to do with your kids or students, read or watch how to make this cute craft!

Easy Turkey Craft

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Supplies

• Toilet paper roll
• Colored card stock (in brown, black, glitter gold, red, orange & yellow)
• Googly eyes
• Glue stick
• Scissors
• Turkey template (download form located at the end of the post)

Directions

1. Download the turkey template and print out. Cut all the pieces out.
2. Cut your toilet paper roll in half. Take one half and cut 1″ deep slits on each side of the roll, making sure they are directly opposite from each other.
3. Glue the smaller feather piece to the larger feather piece.
4. Insert the feathers as far down into the slit you made in step 2 as they can go.
5. Glue the gold glitter hat band onto the black hat.
6. Glue the completed hat onto the top of the turkey’s head.
7. Right underneath the hat, glue the two turkey googly eyes.
8. Glue the wattle to the back of the beak, then glue both of them directly below the eyes.
9. Take the completed turkey body and place glue along the center of the lower body. Line up the bottom of the turkey body and the bottom of the toilet roll and glue into place.

That’s all there is to it! Isn’t this a fun and simple Thanksgiving craft for kids?!

Turkey Template Notes

Like most of our other templates, this turkey craft template has 2 different templates in the download.

Related: Paper Bag Turkey Craft

The first page of the template is best suited for using with one or two children. All of the turkey pieces are on one page. You simply print it out on white card stock, cut out then trace onto the correct colored card stock. You’ll have to cut out twice, but you’ll save card stock if you use this template.

The rest of the template pages are for using with multiple kids, like in a classroom, daycare or library setting.

In this version, each piece is separated by the color paper it is to be printed on. Just print it out on the correct colored paper, then have kids cut out the pieces one time!

Fine Motor Skill Practice

These paper roll turkeys are not only fun, but also help children work on their fine motor skills.

There’s a good amount of cutting in this craft, which helps strengthen the hand muscles and increase their scissor skills.

Gluing the small pieces in place, like on the face, also helps the kids work on precision and details.

Customizing This Craft

One of our favorite things to see is how kids can make a craft all their own! With this turkey craft, a few options came to mind.

First, you can let your child select the feather colors of their choice. Classic colors like brown, yellow, orange and red and nice, but don’t feel constrained to pick those one. Let your child choose some of their favorite colors to make their turkey totally unique.

Like the feathers, you can also change up the color of the turkey’s hat and hat band. Try a pink pilgrim’s hat with a blue glittery band.

Allowing your child (or student) to customize their turkey will allow for greater self expression and will help them be even more excited to make this fun craft!

Share With Us

We love seeing how your crafts turn out! If you made this paper roll turkey and want to share it with us, snap a picture!

Head over to our Facebook page and post your picture or join our private Facebook group and show us in there!

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Paper Roll Turkey Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Active Time: 15 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

Difficulty: Medium

Make this easy and fun paper roll turkey craft for Thanksgiving!

Print

Materials

• Toilet paper roll
• Colored card stock (in brown, black, glitter gold, red, orange & yellow)
• Googly eyes
• Glue stick
• Turkey template (download form located at the end of the post)

Tools

• Scissors

Instructions

1. Download the turkey template and print out. Cut all the pieces out.
2. Cut your toilet paper roll in half. Take one half and cut 1" deep slits on each side of the roll, making sure they are directly opposite from each other.
3. Glue the smaller feather piece to the larger feather piece.
4. Insert the feathers as far down into the slit you made in step 2 as they can go.
5. Glue the gold glitter hat band onto the black hat.
6. Glue the completed hat onto the top of the turkey's head.
7. Right underneath the hat, glue the two turkey googly eyes.
8. Glue the wattle to the back of the beak, then glue both of them directly below the eyes.
9. Take the completed turkey body and place glue along the center of the lower body. Line up the bottom of the turkey body and the bottom of the toilet roll and glue into place.