As you probably already know if you read through some of my posts, my family loves to celebrate all holidays with some type of craft! If it’s a simple, but adorable craft, than even better. I’ve comprised a great list of some really cute and simple Thanksgiving crafts that even your toddler can do. I currently have a 2, 5, and 7 year old and these crafts are easy enough for the 2 year old to do and entertaining enough for the 7 year to still want to join in. So let’s have a look!
Walking Turkey Handprint Craft
I absolutely love handprint crafts! They serve so many purposes. Not only are we making an adorable craft but we’re also getting in a fine motor workout, sensory experience, and best of all a precious handprint keepsake for mom and dad! This walking turkey handprint craft is perfect for all of that. Let’s check out what you need.
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Supplies Needed for the Turkey Handprint Craft:
- Washable paint – we used brown, yellow, green, red, orange, and black. I linked my favorite washable paint below. I always use this paint whenever making handprint crafts with my 2 year old because it’s so easy to clean up and I’ve never had it stain any clothing or counter tops.
- Paint brush
- White paper – I always recommend thicker cardstock paper whenever making handprint crafts so that the paint doesn’t make the paper soggy and rip or crumble up. I’ve linked my favorite cardstock paper that I use for most of my crafts and all of my free printables that you can find on my blog.
- Scissors – Look how pretty these iridescent purple scissors are. So fun for crafting!
How to Make the Turkey Handprint Craft:
1. Paint the palm of your hand in the color configuration that’s shown in the picture below. The palm and the thumb should be brown for the turkey body and head while the other four fingers should each be a different color for the turkeys feathers.
2. Press the painted hand onto your paper firmly and then lift the hand carefully off of the paper
3. Then use the paintbrush to add on an orange beak and feet, a red snood hanging from the beak, and a black eye.
4. Allow this to dry
5. Optional: Using scissor cut around the handprint. You don’t have to do this part but I like to so that I can hang several crafts on my door as decorations
Turkey Handprint Craft
Here’s another version of a handprint turkey!
Supplies Needed for the Turkey Craft:
- Washable paint – we used brown, yellow, orange, red, and green
- Piece of paper
- Paintbrush
- Scissors
- Googly eyes (optional) – You have to grab the pack of googly eyes below for this craft. It has a great variety of sizes and you cant beat the low price.
How to Make the Turkey Handprint:
1. Paint the palm of your hand in the color configuration that’s shown in the picture below. The palm should be brown for the turkey head while the fingers should each be a different color for the turkeys feathers.
2. Then press your hand to the piece of paper and carefully lift it off
3. Allow the paint to dry
4. Add googly eyes or just paint on some eyes
5. Paint on a beak and a snood
Fall Leaf Stamping Craft
This leaf stamping craft is super easy and a great one to start your younger toddlers out with. It provides a lot of fine motor practice and is a fun way to introduce them to paint (washable paint!). All you’ll need is an empty toilet paper roll, washable paint, and a piece of paper.
How to Stamp Fall Leaves
1. Take your empty toilet paper roll and pinch one end to form a leaf shape. Refer to the picture below to see the intended shape
2. Next, dip the leaf shaped end of the toilet paper roll into the washable paint
3. Then stamp the toilet paper roll onto the piece of paper
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 to form a larger leaf
5. Then use a paintbrush and paint on a leaf stem
6. Allow them to dry and cut them out to hang up as fall decorations
Turkey Stamping Craft
How cute are these toilet paper roll turkey stamps? This one’s super easy too! Me 2 year old had a blast with this one.
Supplies Needed to Stamp Turkeys:
- Empty toilet paper roll
- Washable paint – we used brown, red, orange, yellow, green, and black
- Paintbrush
- White piece of paper
- Scissors
Check out all of my favorite products to use for this activity linked on the crafts above.
How to Stamp Turkeys:
1. Grab an empty toilet paper roll. Keep one end of the toilet paper roll circular but pinch the other end into the shape of a feather. See the picture below for reference on how the feather end should look.
2. Next dip the circular end in brown paint and stamp the turkey’s body onto the white piece of paper
3. Then flip the toilet paper roll over and dip the feather end into the red paint and stamp a feather above the brown circle
4. Repeat step 3 three more times with a different color each time but space the feathers out above the brown circle. See the picture below of my 2 year old stamping the fourth feather
5. Then we used the paint brush to paint on a cute little face! I think these turned out super cute and are definitely gonna be hung as Thanksgiving decor in my house
Free Printable Turkey Mask
If you love free printable coloring pages (like me!) here’s a great one to add to your Thanksgiving craft time – A turkey mask!! Click the link below to see the full tutorial on this Thanksgiving Turkey Mask and to print your own PDF.
Thankful Turkey Book
One of my favorite traditions to do with my kids during the month of November is to discuss all the things we are thankful for. So this Thanksgiving, we created a Thankful Turkey Book to record all of the things we are thankful for. My 2 year old loved drawing pictures of all the things she was thankful for while my 5 year old enjoyed practicing her new found writing skills to express her thankfulness. Below is a quick video tutorial from my Instagram showing how to create this adorable Thankful Turkey Book.
Supplies needed to make a thankful turkey book:
- Cardboard
- Construction paper – I’ve linked a high quality construction paper below
- Glue stick
- Scissors
- Hole punch
See the supply lists above for the links to all my other favorite products that I’ve already recommended to use for this craft.
Turkey Sponge Stamping
This sponge stamped turkey is so simple and was a great little fine motor workout for my 2 year old.
Supplies Needed to Sponge Stamp Turkeys:
- Construction paper – brown, orange, and red
- Paper plate
- Sponge
- Washable paint – we used red, orange, and yellow
- Googly eyes
- Scissors – These compressed sponges that I’ve linked below work perfectly for sponge stamping crafts
See the supply lists above for the links to all my other favorite products that I’ve already recommended to use for this craft.
How to Sponge Stamp Turkeys:
1. Use your scissors to cut the sponge into smaller rectangular strips. See the picture above for reference.
2. Flip your paper plate over so the bottom of the plate is facing up
3. Then dip your sponge into the washable paint and begin stamping it onto the paper plate. Alternate the different paint colors. See picture below for reference.
4. Allow the paint to dry
5. Using the construction paper and scissors, cut out a turkey body, beak, and snood
6. Glue the turkey body and face to the paper plate
7. Add googly eyes to the turkey’s body
Playdoh Turkey
How cute is this little playdoh turkey?! My 2 year old LOVED this activity and even asked me to FaceTime her grandad to show him her creation haha. Playing with beads are such a great way for toddlers to work on their pincer grip and get in some fine motor practice. Check out our Instagram video below to see how easy it is to set up this fun Thanksgiving activity!
Supplies needed for playdoh turkeys:
- Playdoh
- Pipe cleaners
- Beads
- Googly eyes
See the supply lists above for the links to all my other favorite products that I’ve already recommended to use for this craft.
Thanksgiving Search and Find
Look! Another FREE printable thanksgiving activity to have handy for entertaining the kids while you cook a wonderful feast ;).
Fall Fingerprint Craft
How cute are these fall fingerprints?! My 2 year old loved getting her fingers messy by stamping fingerprints all over our paper. Then we worked together and thought of different fall items that we could turn the fingerprints into. Using a black gel pen we added some details to bring the fall items to life. My favorite is definitely the turkey!
All you’ll for this craft is paper, stamp pads, and a black pen. I’ve linked a pretty great set of stamp pads that comes in 12 different colors at an awesome price.
Sight Word Turkey Feathers
Anyone else have a kindergartener working on their color sight words?! This was a fun way for my kindergartener to practice her sight words while also being creative! She was to match the colored sticker to the feather with the correct color sight word listed. This crafty activity can also be modified for a toddler that’s working on color recognition. In each feather, you could already have a different colored sticker placed. Then they would place all the stickers with that same color into that feather. The image below was her final product. I think it turned out great!
Below I have linked some of the foam stickers that I used for this activity.
Thankful Tree
How awesome is this Thankful Tree? And the fact that it’s made from a recycled cardboard box makes it even better. Check out our Instagram video to see how we made this Thankful tree.
Blow Art Turkeys
You have to give this Thanksgiving craft a try! It was such a hit with all of my kids and super easy. Click on the link below to see the full tutorial on how to make these adorable blow art turkeys.
We hope you had a blast creating all these great Thanksgiving crafts with us! Check out some of our other great activities and crafts linked below.
