{Gobble, Gobble} Thanksgiving Preschool Spin Art Turkey Craft

ByDeirdre Updated on

Let’s make a coffee filter turkey craft with a spin art paint technique that kids of all ages will love and makes a great preschool turkey craft. This turkey craft is a great Thanksgiving arts and craft idea for the holiday season.

Thanksgiving preschool craft with a red and pink painted brown muffin liner and orange construction paper legs and a red head with white googly eyes.
Let’s make a turkey with a coffee filter!

Coffee Filter Turkey Craft

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 this easy Thanksgiving craft is even toddler friendly. You will use a colored coffee filter as the turkey body! The body be made from dry coffee filters that will have brown craft paint, green paint, whatever colors you want!

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Thanksgiving art supplies: a cupcake liner, salad spinner, green paint, red paint, and brown paint.
The Thanksgiving art supplies needed are very minimal!

Supplies Needed To Make This Coffee Filter Turkey

Instructions for Creating Your Coffee Filter Turkey Craft

Step 1

In a small bowl, add a couple of spoonfuls or globs of a single color to a little water and swished it around. You can start by just covering the paint with water. You want a colorful, just slightly watery consistency of the paint.

Step 2

Mix until the water and the paint has blended.

Creating Thanksgiving art is easy, just mix the paint in some water and pour it in the salad spinner over the muffin liner.
This Thanksgiving craft is super easy and pretty much less free. Add the paint into water and pour it in.

Step 3

Place a coffee filter in the bottom of the salad spinner or art spinner machine.

Step 4

Add the watered down paint mixture on top of the coffee filter sitting in the salad spinner sparingly at first. You can always add more paint! Their will be a variety of patterns each time you make one of these coffee filter crafts.

This turkey craft is mess free! The child is pushing the button for the salad spinner.
This mess free Thanksgiving preschool craft is as easy as pushing a button!

Step 5

Push the spinner button and watch the paint fly. My son loves to make the spinner go faster and faster.

Make a bunch of different turkey crafts. They used red in this one.
You can use other colors and make multiple turkey crafts.

Step 6

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.

Thanksgiving turkey crafts drying over a rack in the sun. The wet muffin liners covered in green, red, and brown paint is drying.
These turkey crafts are drying in the sun. It ensures a quick dry and a mess free dry. No accidents!

Step 7

When we had created several coffee filter works of art, we set them out to dry on a clothes drying rack.

Finishing The Turkey Craft: Awesome Thanksgiving Art

Step 8

When they had dried, I had my son pick out the painted coffee filter that he wanted to use to create a special Thanksgiving turkey.

Step 9

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 or wiggle eyes instead of making your own.

Step 10

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.

Using Spin Art Technique with Kids

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.

Our Experience With This Thanksgiving Turkey Craft for Kids

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. It is a form of spin painting that uses this common kitchen gadget.

We just painted the feathers of this wonderful turkey craft with the spin paint technique and didn’t end up with paint all over the table because we used the salad spinner.

This is a great fine motor skills practice! This fun Thanksgiving craft will make the cutest Thanksgiving turkeys. It’s a great way to get ready for Thanksgiving in a festive way or keep kids busy on Thanksgiving day.

Coffee Filter Spin Art Turkey

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Materials

  • Paint of various colors
  • Coffee Filters
  • Water in a small bowl
  • Construction Paper
  • Glue
  • Googly Eyes (optional)

Tools

  • Salad Spinner

Instructions

  1. We added a couple globs of a single color to the water and swished it around.
  2. When the water and the paint had blended, we dumped it on top of a coffee filter sitting in the salad spinner.
  3. My son pushed on the spinner button and watched the paint fly. He loves to make the spinner go faster and faster.
  4. 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.
  5. When we had created several coffee filter works of art, we set them out to dry on a clothes drying rack.
  6. When they had dried, I had my son pick out the artist creation that he wanted to use to create a special Thanksgiving turkey.
  7. 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.
  8. 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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Love this fun coffee filter turkey craft? Want another cute Thanksgiving craft? These Thanksgiving crafts are perfect for at home or to add to your lesson plans. They’re all so much fun!

How did your turkey craft turn out? Did your kids have fun with the spin paint technique?

Deirdre Smith writes/owns JDaniel4's Mom. After twenty years as a elementary school and technology resource teacher in Northern Virginia, she became a stay at home mom in upstate South Carolina. Her blog features ways she and her 5 year old are exploring learning, crafting, creating healthy meals and living life to its fullest. Deirdre can also be found on twitter as @jdaniel4smom and on her blog's FB page. You can also check her out on Google+.

7 Comments

  1. Great craft, I was going to make this one.

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