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How to Make a Turkey Out of Hands and Feet

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By Alicia Bodine
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Creating a turkey out of a child's hands and feet is one of the easiest turkey crafts in Thanksgiving history. It is popular not only because it is easy, but because it captures your child's size for years to come. Never again will their hands and feet be the same size as they are when they create this craft. Keep the turkey and each year create a new one. Compare it to the ones you made in years past. Yout turkey will get bigger and bigger each Thanksgiving.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Instructions

Things You'll Need:

  1. Step 1

    Use one brown piece of construction paper for each of your child's feet. Have your child stand on the sheets and trace their feet with your pencil.

  2. Step 2

    Set out two pieces of yellow, two pieces of red, and two pieces of orange construction paper side by side. Have your child place their hands, one on each sheet of the same color, and trace with your pencil. That way you should have a left hand in red, yellow, and orange. You should have a right hand in red, yellow, and orange.

  3. Step 3

    Give your child some scissors and have them cut out all of the hands and feet. You may want to help them with this step since there are 8 pieces that need to be cut out.

  4. Step 4

    Connect the feet by placing the heels together. Glue them in place. This is the turkey's body.

  5. Step 5

    Arrange the hands behind the turkey's body by placing the left hands on the left side and the right hands on the right side. The thumbs can be glued behind the body so that all you see is the four fingers sticking up.

  6. Step 6

    Add a pair of google eyes to the top of the heel where the face belongs. Glue in place unless the google eyes have a sticky backing.

  7. Step 7

    Cut out a beak from either red or orange construction paper. Paste it below the eyes.

  8. Step 8

    Cut out two turkey legs and paste them at the bottom of the turkey's body. To make the legs draw a small, thin rectangle that fans out in to three small triangles.

Tips & Warnings
  • Use markers to draw a face on the turkey instead of cutting out more construction paper.
  • Write your child's name and age on the back of the turkey so that you can compare the turkeys year after year.
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