Handprint Turkey Craft
This Handprint Turkey Craft isn’t just a regular handprint craft. It’s a craft of mom, dad, and child’s handprints, for the sweetest Thanksgiving keepsake craft. Or, the grandparents’ handprints layered with the little one. It’s a handprint craft for generations. And it’s a handprint craft to cherish for years to come.
However you make this turkey craft, it’s bound to be special. You’ll need three handprints of different sizes. If you have kids of three different ages, that would be really sweet, as well. We have a Free Printable Turkey Template for all of the remaining pieces of the craft.
Thanksgiving Keepsake Turkey Handprint Craft
To make our handprint turkey craft, you will first need to print our turkey template.
You will also need brown, red, orange, and yellow cardstock, clothespins, scissors, and a glue stick.
Handprint Turkey Craft Supplies Needed
- Turkey Template
- Cardstock – brown, red, orange, yellow
- Wooden clothespins
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Turkey Craft Step by Step Directions
First, print the turkey template. Cut out the pieces.
Trace the body pieces on brown cardstock and cut out. Cut out a yellow beak. Leave the eye as is.
Also, trace and cut out all the handprints needed. Again, you’ll need three handprints of different sizes, each on a different fall color of cardstock. Mom, dad, and child. Grandparents and child. Siblings. Aunt, uncle, kid. However you want to make your keepsake turkey craft.
Now, glue the medium sized handprint pattern over the largest handprint.
Then, glue the smallest handprint pattern over the medium sized handprint.
Next, glue the oval shape from the template on the bottom part of the handprints.
Glue the turkey’s head over the thumbs.
Glue the turkey’s eye on the head.
Next, glue the beak on the turkey. We also cut a red raindrop shape for the wattle.
Finally, add clothespins to the turkey for legs to finish the sweetest Thanksgiving turkey keepsake handprint craft.
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More Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
We have many more fun turkey crafts for kids, too, like our Cardboard Roll Handprint Turkey Craft, Clothespin Leaf Turkey Craft, Paper Plate Leaf Turkey Craft, and our Nature Leaf Handprint Turkey Craft. And be sure to check out even more of our many Thanksgiving crafts for kids at Our Kid Things!
Handprint Turkey Craft
This handprint turkey is the sweetest handprint craft with mom, dad, and child’s handprints
Materials
- Turkey Template
- Cardstock - brown, red, orange, yellow
- Wooden clothespins
- Scissors
- Glue stick
Instructions
- First, print the turkey template. Cut out the pieces.
- Trace the body pieces on brown cardstock and cut out. Cut out a yellow beak. Leave the eye as is.
- Also, trace and cut out all the handprints needed. Again, you’ll need three handprints of different sizes, each on a different fall color of cardstock. Mom, dad, and child. Grandparents and child. Siblings. Aunt, uncle, kid. However you want to make your keepsake turkey craft.
- Now, glue the medium sized handprint pattern over the largest handprint.
- Then, glue the smallest handprint pattern over the medium sized handprint.
- Next, glue the oval shape from the template on the bottom part of the handprints.
- Glue the turkey’s head over the thumbs.
- Glue the turkey’s eye on the head.
- Next, glue the beak on the turkey. We also cut a red raindrop shape for the wattle.
- Finally, add clothespins to the turkey for legs to finish the sweetest Thanksgiving turkey keepsake handprint craft.