How to Make Construction Paper Turkeys

Create a construction paper turkey for an easy and fun craft that will put you and your kids in the holiday spirit. What's better, using hand and foot cut-outs to create the turkey makes the craft easy to assemble and finish in very little time. To make a flawless finished turkey, assemble the "tail feathers" to your liking before gluing them.

Things You'll Need

• Construction paper in brown, red, yellow and orange
• Black marker
• Scissors
• Glue
• Pencil

Instructions

Instructions

1. Trace the outline of a foot on a piece of brown construction paper. Cut out the foot shape with scissors. This is the turkey's body. The heel part of the foot is the turkey's head, so turn the body upright and use a black marker to draw in two small eyes.

2. Cut out a small triangle of yellow construction paper and glue it underneath the eyes to create the turkey's beak. Draw the turkey's wattle on red construction paper before cutting it out and gluing it directly beneath the beak.

3. Trace a pair of hands, fingers spread out, on each of the pieces of red, orange, and yellow construction paper. Cut them out, leaving you with two hands in each color. Carefully arrange the hands, fingers pointing outward, behind the turkey body to create the tail feathers. With the tail feathers arranged to your liking, glue them to both each other and the turkey's body.

4. Draw two turkey legs on the orange construction paper, cut them out, and glue them to the bottom of the turkey's body.

References

• Thankful Turkey Craft
• Hand and Foot Turkey Craft

Resources

• Turkey handprint craft