Fun Turkey Crafts for Kids

Even though I’m a pro crafter, I still feel like Thanksgiving gets lost in the crush between Halloween and Christmas. But it can be an important and meaningful holiday, and it’s definitely something worth crafting for. Even if you’re not making Thanksgiving crafts yourself, here are some turkey crafts for kids that you might just want to jump in and make, too.

Also see my easy Thanksgiving crafts for kids post from a couple of years ago for more ideas.

This curly turkey craft from Easy Peasy and Fun is super easy to make with a free printable for the turkey. If you already have construction paper available this is a project you probably already have the supplies for and can set up pretty quickly.

The chalk pastel turkey from Projects with Kids is definitely one that I would make myself, too. You can do it with pastels or even with regular chalk if you don’t have any chalk pastels handy. This one also has a printable you can grab from their website for the turkey’s body.

If you’re a coffee drinker a coffee filter turkey like this one from Darcy and Brian would be easy for your kids to make. Kids can also decorate the clothespin and these would be super cute on the Thanksgiving table.

Color in patterns to make a 3D patterned turkey with the printable from The Craft Train. This is another one that kids of all ages and adults can have fun with, because who doesn’t like coloring?

This one is a slightly different kind of turkey craft, but kids will have a lot of fun with this little turkey pompom popper made out of a paper cup. It’s a classic STEM experiment with a holiday twist that will have kids and adults alike popping pompoms all over the place. Head to The Best Vinyl Cutters for the instructions.

When my daughter was younger I would spend a lot of time trying to come up with activities she could do in the car on long road trips and things to entertain her when we were waiting at restaurants and things that didn’t involve screens.

But it turns out there are a lot of great activities you can do with just a piece of paper and a pen.

What Do We Do All Day has a great collection of pen and paper games, including some that can be done with just one person, though they’re all more fun if you have at least two.

There are some classics on here like hangman and dots and boxes, but there are also quite a few I hadn’t heard of before.

I don’t want to spoil the whole list for you because you should definitely click over there and look around, but I will share about the one that you see pictured above.

This game is called Bridges, and you start by making the big random shape and the dividing it into a bunch of sections (the post says 30-50 sections is ideal but I think this one is smaller than that).

Each player gets their own color marker and you take turns drawing bridges from one space to another, crossing a third. Once there’s a bridge, no other bridges can start, end or cross in those spaces. Keep going until no more bridges can be built, and the person who makes the last bridge wins.

Check out the post over at What We Do All Day for more great ideas for no or almost-no prep games you can play with your kids or that kids can play together. I’d love to know if you have a favorite paper and pen game, whether it’s on this list or a different one.

[Photo: What We Do All Day]

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