Paper Plate Turkey For Preschoolers - Red Ted Art

Gobble Gobble. Oh yes.. it is Easy Turkey Crafts for Kids time as welcome back the gorgeous Creating Creatives to Red Ted Art! Perfect time for Kids’ Thanksgiving Fun!! Create some gorgeous seasonal arty colours, take a paper plate, throw in some googly eyes.. and off you go to create a stunning and easy Paper Plate Turkey Craft that the kids will love!

See all of Creating Creatives wonderful projects for Red Ted Art here! She really is a misstress of paper plates and creating wonderful Paper Plate Crafts for kids!

It’s Turkey Season my fellow Tedsters and boy have we got a fun turkey craft for you today! A lot of color and a little wobble is what makes our turkey go ‘gobble gobble’! I hope you enjoy this project and if you make one of our turkeys I’d be truly thankful to see how they turn out, so feel free to tag me on Instagram.

Paper Plate Turkey Craft – Supplies:

1 Piece of Paper (we used watercolor paper)
1 Small Paper Plate
1 Piece of Red, Orange and Brown Paper
2 x Big-ish Googly Eyes
Warm Colored Paint, Brown Paint & Paint Brush
Orange Pipe Cleaner
Glue, Scissors, Tape & Pencil

How to make a Paper Plate Turkey with Preschool

Preparing the Turkey’s bright tailfeathers

Paint one side of you paper with bright warm colors, reds, oranges, yellows, and pinks. Let dry.

Cutting Your Turkey’s head shapes

While your paper is drying make the turkey head. Cut a circle out of your brown paper for the face, we traced a tin can to get our circle. Then for the beak cut a triangle with a curved top out of your orange paper. Finally, for the red hanging bit, also known as the turkey’s ‘snood’ cut out a wobbly oval shape from your red paper.

Glue the eyes on your turkey head.

Adding colour to the back of your turkey’s tail feathers

Once the bright side of your paper is dry turn it over and paint the back of it brown. Let dry.

When your paper is fully dry fold the bottom corner up to the top to make a triangle and cut off the colorful excess rectangle on the left. Open it up and you should now have a square shape.

Assmebling the colourful Turkey Craft’s Tail Feathers

Take your square and cut it into 4 little squares. To do this we folded the top of our square down, opened it back up, then folded the right side over the left, opened it back up and cut along the folds.

Roll each square into a cone and tape closed using either double sided or regular tape. When you have all your cones are rolled arrange them in a turkey tail form and staple them together at the bottom. This will make it easier to glue the sides together. If you want to skip the stapling and gluing you can just hot glue the cones together.

Final Paper Plate Turkey Craft Assembly

Paint the back of your small paper plate brown and make some little turkey feet by twisting a loop at the bottom of your pipe cleaner and cutting them to length.