A Thanksgiving craft is a great way to introduce your kids to this holiday and encourage them to be more grateful.
This Thanksgiving craft is not only super fun, but it is easy! Plus, your little one will get to paint, but with minimal mess which makes this the perfect Thanksgiving preschool craft. I dare say it is even toddler friendly.
Thanksgiving Preschool Craft
If you enjoy having your children play and explore painting, but don’t love a lot of paint everywhere than salad spinner painting may just be your kind of painting. We just painted the feathers of this wonderful turkey and didn’t end up with paint all over the table.
Supplies Needed To Make This Turkey Craft
We started by gathering all the materials for the craft. They were the following:
Materials:
- Salad Spinner
- Paint of various colors
- Coffee Filters
- Water in a small bowl
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Googly Eyes (optional)
The Thanksgiving art supplies needed are very minimal!
Creating Your Turkey Craft
We added a couple globs of a single color to the water and swished it around. When the water and the paint had blended, we dumped it on top of a coffee filter sitting in the salad spinner.
This Thanksgiving craft is super easy and pretty much less free. Add the paint into water and pour it in.
My son pushed on the spinner button and watched the paint fly. He loves to make the spinner go faster and faster.
This mess free Thanksgiving preschool craft is as easy as pushing a button!
We repeated the process above a couple of times using a different color of paint each time. The paint created pretty layers on top of each other as we added each cup of paint and spun it.
You can use other colors and make multiple turkey crafts.
When we had created several coffee filter works of art, we set them out to dry on a clothes drying rack.
These turkey crafts are drying in the sun. It ensures a quick dry and a mess free dry. No accidents!
Finishing The Turkey Craft To Make Awesome Thanksgiving Art
When they had dried, I had my son pick out the artist creation that he wanted to use to create a special Thanksgiving turkey.
We then cut out a head, eyes, beak and feet to add to the turkey out of construction paper. You can also use googly eyes instead of making your own.
My son glued each of the pieces onto the turkey’s feathers and we had a turkey with feathers to make an original piece of Thanksgiving art.
That makes two wonderful reasons to paint using a salad spinner. The first was to contain paint in a closed container and the second is that you can create amazing works of art.
Now matter how many times we salad spinner paint the paintings all come out differently.
Coffee Filter Spin Art Turkey
Materials
- Paint of various colors
- Coffee Filters
- Water in a small bowl
- Construction Paper
- Glue
- Googly Eyes (optional)
Tools
- Salad Spinner
Instructions
- We added a couple globs of a single color to the water and swished it around.
- When the water and the paint had blended, we dumped it on top of a coffee filter sitting in the salad spinner.
- My son pushed on the spinner button and watched the paint fly. He loves to make the spinner go faster and faster.
- We repeated the process above a couple of times using a different color of paint each time. The paint created pretty layers on top of each other as we added each cup of paint and spun it.
- When we had created several coffee filter works of art, we set them out to dry on a clothes drying rack.
- When they had dried, I had my son pick out the artist creation that he wanted to use to create a special Thanksgiving turkey.
- We then cut out a head, eyes, beak and feet to add to the turkey out of construction paper. You can also use googly eyes instead of making your own.
- My son glued each of the pieces onto the turkey’s feathers and we had a turkey with feathers to make an original piece of Thanksgiving art.
Notes
Don't put too much dye into the water, or the colors may get very muddy.
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More Thanksgiving Activities:
Here are some other thanksgiving crafts for kids to enjoy:
- Be Thankful. Create a jar of the things you are thankful for.
- Thanksgiving Celebration – add kid-friendly and fun foods to your feast.
- Here are nine Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids.
Great craft, I was going to make this one.
Awe these are SUPER cute!
Thanks for sharing on Kids Get Crafty!
Maggy
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