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Colorful Turkey Craft for Kids {Builds Fine Motor Skills!}

November 24, 2013 by Sheryl Cooper

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Inside: Looking for a colorful turkey craft kids can make for Thanksgiving? This art activity is fun and strengthens fine motor skills, too!

You’ve searched for a craft your preschoolers can do for Thanksgiving.

However, most of what you see looks more like an adult-made craft.

Or, it’s a piece of art that doesn’t allow for much creativity.

This tends to happen during the holidays, when there is so much cookie cutter art taking place.

If you’ve been on Pinterest lately, you know what I’m talking about.

This year I came up with a turkey craft that involves lots of process – process that they loved.

The result: A turkey craft that is colorful and fun to make!

colorful turkey craft for kids

 

 

Colorful Turkey Craft for Kids {Builds Fine Motor Skills!}

  

Supplies Needed

  • white basket coffee filters
  • your choice of colored construction paper plus brown paper and orange paper
  • colored feathers
  • liquid watercolors
  • paint brushes
  • googly eyes
  • pipettes or droppers
  • white glue

Watercolors and Coffee Filters

The first step is creating the body of the turkey.

Choose bright colored liquid watercolors and place them in containers, along with droppers, trays, and coffee filters.

(Tip: Put the name on the coffee filter with a Sharpie before the process begins. It’s much easier than trying to do so afterwards, when they are wet. Trust me on this.)

colorful turkey craft for kids 

 

Place wet coffee filters on a tray to dry.

 

If you wad them up and let them dry that way, rather than flat, you get a fun streaky design when they are dry.

 

Simply open and flatten when ready for the next step.

 

colorful turkey craft for kids

Glue the Colorful Coffee Filter to Construction Paper

This is something you can do before the children arrive, or you can get them involved in the process.

Simply squirt glue to one side of the coffee filter, turn it over, and press onto the construction paper.

colorful turkey craft for kids

Details, Details

Before assembling this turkey craft, cut some feet and beaks from orange paper.

Then, cut the neck and head from brown paper.

Get the googly eyes and feathers ready, too.

Assemble the Body

Now it’s time to glue everything on the coffee filter.

I chose to let them squeeze the glue onto the paper, rather than pouring glue into trays and having them brush it on.

The latter is just fine, but I wanted some extra fine motor going on.

Squeezing glue is an excellent way to strengthen the hands and fingers.

You do need to keep an eye on it, of course, so that they move the glue around and they don’t empty the bottle’s entire contents.

colorful turkey craft for kids 
Once the glue is on the paper, the details can be added.
colorful turkey craft for kids
colorful turkey craft for kids
colorful turkey craft for kids

Add the Feathers

The last step to this turkey craft is adding the feathers. More color!

colorful turkey craft for kids
Let everything dry thoroughly and it’s finished!
colorful turkey craft for kids

 

 

Find all 3 of our turkey crafts here:

turkey crafts for preschoolers

 

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Filed Under: Art, Fall Activities, preschool Tagged With: art, fall, fine motor, preschoolers, Thanksgiving

About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Heather

    November 5, 2014 at 6:59 am

    This is too cute! I love when you can re-use items you already have to create crafts with the kiddos. Thanks for stopping by to share with us yesterday at our Facebook share day. Pinning!

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