This Easy Thankful Turkey Craft is classic handprint turkey craft with a twist. Making a handprint thankful turkey is Thanksgiving fun for kids of all ages especially for younger kids like pre-k and preschool. This simple and inexpensive craft is perfect for home, school, or daycare.

Easy Thankful Turkey Craft for kids - finished thankful turkey shown with handprint turkey body and colorful feathers with thankful words written on them — Let’s make our own thankful turkey from our handprint!

Easy Handprint Thankful Turkey Craft

This thankful turkey craft is also a cute handprint keepsake because the foundation of this cute Thanksgiving craft is your child’s handprint.

Related: Traditional Turkey Handprint Craft for Kids Using Paint & Easy Pumpkin Handprint Craft to Make & Keep.

How to Make a Thankful Turkey Craft from Handprint

Just a note before you start this Thankful turkey craft: Be sure to date the back of the turkey so that it’s easy to remember what year your child wrote that he was thankful for. This year for us it was Fruit Roll-Ups and Batman {Giggle}.

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Supplies Needed To Make This Thankful Turkey Craft

Easy Thankful Turkey Craft supplies needed to make the thankful turkey craft with kids — This is what you will need to make this Thanksgiving craft.

Instructions to Make Thankful Turkey Craft

Step 1

After gathering supplies, trace your child’s hand on the brown craft foam.

Step 2

Have your child cut out the hand shape out of craft foam.

Step 3

Next, cut out 4 feathers from the colored craft foam. We just did this free-hand, but making one feather shape out of cardboard and then using it as a feather template works really well if you are doing this with several children at once.

Step 4

Ask your child to write something they are thankful for on each feather. Younger kids could draw a picture or have an older child or adult write the words.

Step 5

Time to glue everything together! Kids can glue 2 wiggly eyes onto the turkey. Attach the turkey’s feathers, beak, gobbler, and wings to the turkey with Glue Dots or glue.

Ways to Modify this Handprint Turkey Craft Based on Age

For younger kids: Cut out a wing, beak, and gobbler for the turkey.
For older kids: Have them draw a wing, beak and gobbler with marker on the foam sheets and then cut around them.

Step by Step Pictures for Making this Handprint Turkey

Why This Thankful Turkey Craft Is So Great

This handprint turkey craft is not only super fun to make, but it’s also educational in the sense it teaches kids how to be grateful. And it’s that time of year, though it should be a year long thing, that we start focusing on what we are grateful for. You can write down your family members, friends, really anything you’re grateful for. Then you can put them on the colorful construction paper and add them as feathers to your thankful turkey.

Colorful Thankful Turkey Craft Using Kids Handprint

This thankful turkey craft is the perfect Thanksgiving turkey craft for kids of all ages. Younger kids, older kids, everyone will love this fun craft. Not only is it a fun way to practice fine motor skills with all the writing and cutting, but helps kids be thankful for their whole family!

Materials

Brown, green, yellow, and red craft foam
Wiggly eyes
Glue or Glue Dots
Scissors or Preschool Training Scissors
Black marker

Instructions

Trace your child’s hand on the brown craft foam.
Have your child cut out the hand shape out of craft foam.
Next, cut out 4 feathers from the colored craft foam.
Ask your child to write something they are thankful for on each feather.
Time to glue everything together! Kids can glue 2 wiggly eyes onto the turkey. Attach the turkey’s feathers, beak, gobbler, and wings to the turkey with Glue Dots or glue.

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