Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids: Pipe Cleaner Turkey
Thanksgiving crafts for kids - Pipe cleaner turkey. This is so simple to make and stands up on his own. What a fun turkey craft for kids to make on Thanksgiving.
Materials
- 5 pipe cleaners
- Plastic or paper cup
- Orange and brown construction paper
- Kids scissors
- Adult scissors
- Tape
- Glue
- Googly eyes
Instructions
- For a paper cup - poke 5 holes in a rainbow shape into the bottom of the cup. For a plastic cup - You can make holes by heating up the tip of adult scissors over a flame and holding the hot scissors on the plastic until holes have been melted. Obviously, this step is only for adults. Please use caution when working with hot scissors.
- Provide your child with 5 pipe cleaners in various colors and the cup with the holes. Have your child push both ends of a pipe cleaner into one hole to form a feather.
- Cut a turkey body out of brown construction paper. The turkey body will look like a bowling pin. Cut a shape that is big enough to disguise the cup but not so big that it will flop over when attached to the cup.
- Attach the googly eyes to the turkey's head using glue.
- Make a beak by cutting and gluing orange construction paper to the turkey.
- When the glue has dried, tape the body to the cup and spread out the pipe cleaner feathers.
Video
Notes
I used a plastic cup for this activity because I had some leftover from a previous party. You can use a paper cup as well.