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EASY + Cute Turkey Handprint Craft For Kids [Free Template]

We’re so excited that Thanksgiving is just around the corner! We love everything about this time of year, from the cooler weather to spending time with family and delicious food.

Another great thing about Thanksgiving is all the time to do crafts like this turkey handprint craft. These little turkeys are so cute and make a great decoration for your Thanksgiving table!

Plus, they’re a fun way for kids to get involved in the holiday preparations and make a fun keepsake. So grab some paper and some paint, and let’s get started!

Also, check out our turkey activities for kids for even more fun Thanksgiving craft ideas.

Hand Turkey Craft

handprint turkey craft image collage with the words handprint turkey

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If you’ve never made any handprint crafts with your kids, you’re really in for a treat.

It’s a great way to get your kids’ creativity flowing and work on fine motor skills without them knowing they’re doing it! Plus, they’ll be so proud when they’ve each made their little turkey memento.

Supplies

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 this turkey to life!

Hands holding handprint turkey craft template

First, encourage your child to glue the light brown turkey belly onto the turkey’s lower body.

Hands gluing belly onto handprint turkey craft

Next, glue the turkey beak to the middle of the turkey’s head.

Hands gluing beak onto handprint turkey craft

Secure the snood to the top and side of the turkey’s beak with glue.

Hands gluing snood onto handprint turkey craft

Now, help your child to glue the paper eyeballs or googly eyes to the turkey’s head, above the beak.

Hands gluing eyes onto handprint turkey craft

Glue the yellow feet onto each side of the bottom of the turkey’s body.

Hands gluing feet onto handprint turkey craft

Trace your child’s hand onto the colored card stock of your choice four times (these will be the turkey’s feathers) and cut them all out.

Adult hand tracing child hand on yellow paper

Finally, guide your child to fan out the colored handprints, then glue the completed turkey onto the handprints.

Hands gluing handprint feathers onto handprint turkey craft

Be sure to check out our Thanksgiving crafts while you’re here! Your little ones will enjoy making more fun projects like this!

handprint turkey craft

More Thanksgiving Activities

Don’t let the Thanksgiving fun stop here! The festive season is the perfect time to create lasting memories. From sharing a good book to making cute Thanksgiving crafts, your kids will love getting in the holiday spirit.

Get creative and have a blast with some of our favorite Thanksgiving activities below!

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Kids’ Thanksgiving Books

Reading out loud to kids is so beneficial for their development. When you read to kids, they learn to focus, develop new vocabulary, and love reading. For those reasons and more, we recommend starting with books.

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

handprint turkey craft

Kids’ Thanksgiving & Turkey Crafts

Making crafts with kids is a great way to practice fine motor skills, engage creativity, and have fun! Add in more with some of our favorite ideas:

Pumpkin Craft For Preschoolers – Fall is finally here, so it’s time to break out the pumpkin crafts! This is the perfect craft for young kids, and it’s guaranteed to get them into the spirit of the season. All you need is some construction paper, scissors, and glue.

Turkey Popsicle Stick Craft – This Thanksgiving turkey craft is a fun project for the kids during the holiday season! You can even turn them into a magnet for the fridge, too. They’d make the perfect gift to say ‘Happy Thanksgiving’ to someone special!

Collage image of the Kids' Thanksgiving & Turkey Crafts

Paper Bag Corn Craft – This fun craft is an easy way for kids to show off their imagination and creativity! You only need a brown paper bag, some paper, and glue. Older kids will love cutting out each piece of the printable template, while younger ones can practice their gluing skills.

Disguise A Turkey Printable – It’s that time of year again- time to start thinking about disguising the ol’ turkey! This year, why not try something different and make a Forky, Pikachu, Pete the Cat, or Among Us character? With this printable, these turkey crafts are easy and fun for kids of all ages! 

Thanksgiving Activities

Our Thanksgiving pattern block mats are perfect for getting your kids into STEM educational activities! Each mat features a colorful and playful Thanksgiving theme for kids to complete using their favorite toy blocks. Plus, this activity is great for helping them learn about shapes, patterns, and colors!

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Do your little ones love coloring? Then, they’ll love our Thanksgiving color by number printables! This easy, no-prep activity is perfect for keeping little kids busy.

As they color in the pages, they can also practice counting and number recognition! These printables are a great way to entertain your kids during the fall season.

Collage image of the Thanksgiving Activities

Download these Thanksgiving do a dot printables for a fun take on learning. With these pages, kids can learn about counting, shapes, and more – all while having lots of fun! Don’t worry if you don’t have dot markers; kids can use buttons, pom poms, and other fun objects to fill in the gaps instead.

Handprint turkey craft

Try our Thanksgiving worksheets for kids to combine traditional education with something a little more creative. With each activity, your kids can develop their fine motor skills, such as practicing handwriting and pattern making. Education doesn’t have to be boring with these fun and engaging worksheets!

Have your kids practice their ABCs with this set of Thanksgiving alphabet worksheets. Each page has fun and festive images to help keep them engaged while learning! From beginning sounds to upper and lower case letters, young learners can practice letter recognition with these seasonal worksheets.

Share With Us

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

For a chance to have your child’s project 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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Handprint Turkey Craft For Kids

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Active Time: 15 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Difficulty: Easy

Make this handprint turkey craft for Thanksgiving with your kids or students!

Materials

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

Instructions

    1. Download the turkey template, print it, and cut out the pieces.
    2. Begin by gluing the light brown turkey belly onto the turkey's body.
    3. Next, glue the turkey beak to the middle of the turkey's head.
    4. Secure the snood (the red piece) to the top, side of the turkey's beak with glue.
    5. Now, glue the paper eyeballs or googly eyes to the turkey's head, above the beak.
    6. Glue the yellow feet onto each side of the bottom of the turkey's body.
    7. Trace your child's hand onto the colored card stock of your choice (these will be the turkey's feathers) and cut them all out.
    8. Finish off by fanning out the colored handprints, then glue the completed turkey onto the handprints.

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Paula Anderson

Friday 1st of November 2024

These will look great on our wall

Sam

Friday 1st of November 2024

Woohoo! So glad!

Cathy

Thursday 31st of October 2024

These are so cute!

Sam

Friday 1st of November 2024

Thanks, Cathy! Glad you like it!

Joanne

Wednesday 30th of October 2024

These are so cute!

Sam

Wednesday 30th of October 2024

I'm so glad you like them! Thank you!

Gerrilyn

Monday 28th of October 2024

Where is the printable turkey template? Can't find it on this post.

Sam

Monday 28th of October 2024

To get the template, you'll need to have a free Grow account. If you are a free SEM+ Grow subscriber, please login (by clicking the “login or sign up free to unlock” button on the image) and it'll unlock the download image. If not, you can sign up for free and it'll also unlock. For more information on how this works, you can check out the details here.

Alison

Friday 25th of October 2024

Thank you, this is a great.

Sam

Friday 25th of October 2024

Thank you and you're very welcome!

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