Make a Thankful Turkey
Make a thankful turkey and talk about gratitude with this cute Thanksgiving craft!
Thanksgiving can be a day to celebrate time with family, eat good food, play games together, and appreciate all that we are thankful for in our lives. Ask your child to think of things they are grateful for. Is it family, friends, a favorite toy, or an activity they like to do? Then create a gratitude turkey featuring the things the things they said they were thankful for. Start with a few feathers and then add more throughout the holiday season.
Materials
Directions
Cut out a round circle (about 6'' in diameter) from the brown construction paper for the turkey body. Cut out a smaller round circle for the head. Attach the circles together on a piece of white paper.
Cut out the beak from the orange construction paper, and the wattles for under the turkey's chin from the red construction paper. Cut out 25-30 feathers from additional sheets of construction paper. Make sure to use a variety of colors!
Help your child think of things they are thankful for and write their ideas on the feathers. Write one idea on each feather. Leave 5 to 10 feathers blank.
Now it's time to decorate the turkey. Attach the beak and wattles to the turkey's face. Then, draw its eyes. Finally, add a few blank feathers around the turkey's body to add some color.
Finally, have your child add the feathers with what they are thankful for around the turkey's body.
Hang the Thanksgiving turkey up somewhere you will see it! Every day, you can write something you are thankful for on a feather. Then you can add it to your turkey with glue or tape and watch it grow!
Explore Further
Did you know that wild turkeys are smart, stealthy, and great at escaping when someone spots them? They are also one of the fastest running land birds in North America. Check it out with this wild turkey video from the Wild Kratts.
Want more “Wild Kratts” activities? Check out the Creature Power Generator Game and the Test the Strength of Spider Webs activity to continue the fun!
Photographs by MJ Jackson.
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