This Thanksgiving season is a time for family, thankfulness, and, of course, turkey!!! Sharing in a roasted turkey feast with friends and family is one of the most defining aspects of the Thanksgiving holiday. In order to get our drumsticks drummin’ and our Thanksgiving spirits running, here is a craft for you and your family to enjoy.
Make this strapping Tom Turkey.
Pine Cone Turkeys
You will need:
- A decent-sized, opened pine cone
- Red, yellow, and orange construction paper
- A brown paper bag
- Glue
- Googley eyes
- Take the different-colored sheets of construction paper and cut them into three differently-sized feather shapes: large, medium, and small. (You can fold the paper in half, draw half of each feather on the crease, and cut them out. Unfold the cutouts, and you should have easy, symmetrical turkey feathers.)
Draw and cut out large, medium, and small feathers.
- On the last layer of pine cone scales, glue on the largest feathers. Glue a red, yellow, and orange feather to one pine cone scale, and make sure to put them in random order in terms of color.
Place the feathers in random color order according to size.
- On the second-to-last layer of scales, glue on the medium-sized feathers.
- On the third-to-last layer of scales, glue on the smallest feathers.
- Cut a circle out of the brown paper bag for the turkey head, and glue on the googley eyes.
- Cut out a yellow beak and a red wattle and glue them to the head.
- Wrap it up by gluing the head to the front of the pine cone.
Feel free to make a gang of pine cone turkeys and set them in your centerpiece for Thanksgiving or place them around the house to add that holiday touch! Happy Thanksgiving!
Get a Rafter of Pine Cone Turkeys in Your Friends’ Rafters.
Filed under: Just for Fun! | Tagged: crafts, Fall, holidays, Thanksgiving
My daughter made these last year at story time at the public library. However, instead of making feather shapes on the paper, they traced their hand (a stack of two pieces each of red, orange, and yellow). When cut out and arranged on the pine cone, the fingers and thumb represent the feathers. This was especially cute because it preserved her hand print from when the craft was made (age 4) and was more personal. The turkey head, however, was cut out in profile with a waddle hanging down and beak sticking out, with googly eyes stuck to either side of the paper where appropriate. Very cute craft.