I love this simple and fun Turkey Gobbling Craft. It might just look like a turkey, but when you pull the string, it makes a fun gobble noise: a fun and easy Thanksgiving turkey craft to make.
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Turkey Craft for Kids
It’s a last-minute Thanksgiving craft for the kids to play with on Thanksgiving Day. I love this simple and fun craft. It might look like a turkey, but when you pull the string, it makes a popping noise that sounds like a turkey call. Thanksgiving is full of fun crafts and activities for kids to play with like this Turkey Crayon Holder for coloring fun, Corn Husk Dolls, and a Paper Plate Turkey Craft Puppet. These are all fun ideas to keep the kids busy on Thanksgiving while you work on the food.
What You’ll Love about this Thanksgiving Craft
- It is a craft and an activity that provides fun for the kids.
- A great Thanksgiving craft for preschool and school parties
- It is a fun craft for young kids and older children
Materials Needed for this Turkey Gobbling Craft
- Plastic Cup – I used a 16 oz. Plastic cup for this craft. This will be the turkey’s body.
- Brown paper – I used some brown craft paper for the turkey’s face. You can use construction paper for this.
- Orange paper – you’ll only use a bit for the little beak on the turkey.
- Red yarn or felt – this will be used to make the little gobble.
- Googly Eyes – small googly eyes for the turkey face
- Scrapbook papers in an assortment of colors and patterns – I used four different sheets. You could also use several different colors of construction paper for the feathers.
- Yarn – You’ll need to cut about one foot of yarn for this craft.
- Duct tape or masking tape – This is what makes the gobbling noise. When the tape wad is pulled upward on the inside of the cup, the cup echoes, making a gobbling noise.
Equipment Needed
Scissors
How to Make a Turkey Craft that Gobbles
Step-by-Step Instructions
Before the kids can help make this craft, prepare the cup using sharp scissors to make a hole into the bottom center of the cup. Twist the scissor point back and forth until it punctures the cup.
Start the turkey craft by making the face of the turkey. Cut a circle out of the brown paper about 1.5 inches in diameter.
Cut out a small orange beak to fit onto the brown circle and a little gobble out of the red yarn or felt.
Glue those onto the brown circle
Add the googly eyes to complete the turkey face
Cut out feathers that are around 4 inches long using colorful scrapbook papers.
Fan the feathers out so they overlap at the bottom and glue them together
Add the turkey face onto the feathers. Set the paper turkey aside.
Use a sharpened pencil or another tool to push the long piece of yarn through the hole in the bottom of the cup.
Pull some of it down through the cup to wrap tape around it.
Wrap a piece of tape around one end of the long piece of yarn. This tape should be wrapped around the yarn several times, making a big wad of tape that will not fit through the hole in the cup.
Glue the paper turkey onto the front of the cup and let that dry
Optional Variation
Make a larger turkey face and glue it to the front of the cup. Ad the colorful paper feathers to the back of the cup.
How to Make the Turkey Gobbling Noise
Now, you can use the turkey craft. While holding onto the bottom of the cup, pull upward on the yarn that is sticking out of the cup. Do this quickly over and over to hear the turkey make noise.
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Instructions:
Gobbling Turkey Craft for Kids
Materials
- Plastic Cup I used a 16 oz. Plastic cup for this craft
- Scrapbook papers in an assortment of colors and patterns I used four different sheets
- Brown paper
- Orange paper
- Red yarn or felt
- Googly Eyes
- Yarn
- Duct tape or masking tape
Instructions
- Before the kids can help make this craft, prepare the cup using sharp scissors to make a hole into the bottom center of the cup. Twist the scissor point back and forth until it punctures the cup.
- Start the turkey craft by making the face of the turkey. Cut a circle out of the brown paper that is about 1.5 inches in diameter.
- Cut out a small orange beak to fit onto the brown circle and a little gobble out of the red yarn or felt.
- Glue those onto the brown circle
- Add the googly eyes to complete the turkey face
- Using the colorful scrapbook papers, cut out feathers that are around 4 inches long.
- Fan the feathers out so they overlap at the bottom and glue them together
- Add the turkey face onto the feathers. Set the paper turkey aside.
- Use a sharpened pencil or another tool to push the long piece of yarn through the hole in the bottom of the cup.
- Pull some of it down through the cup to wrap tape around it.
- Wrap a piece of tape around one end of the long piece of yarn. This tape should be wrapped around the yarn several times, making a big wad of tape that will not fit through the hole in the cup.
- Glue the paper turkey onto the front of the cup and let that dry Now, you can use the turkey craft.
Making the turkey gobbling noise
- While holding onto the bottom of the cup, pull upward on the yarn that is sticking out of the cup. Do this quickly over and over to hear the turkey make noise.
~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.Com
