Clothespin Turkey Craft
This Clothespin Turkey Craft is an adorable yet simple craft that's perfect for the fall season. With some simple supplies, your kids will have a blast making this cute little turkey that they can display on Thanksgiving day!
Servings 1
Equipment
- Black marker
- Paper trimmer
Ingredients
Instructions
- Gather all your supplies.
- Separate the clothes pins from the metal springs.
- Spread nine clothespins evenly across your workspace, creating a fan shape. Use the hot glue gun to glue pairs of clothespins together, forming turkey feathers.
- Use acrylic craft paint to pain all sides of the clothespins with the following colors: one green, two yellow, two orange, two burgandy and two brown. Set aside to dry.
- Once the paint has dried, glue the painted clothespins together.
- Attach the two mini wood slices together, forming the turkey's head and body. Glue two wiggle eyes to the turkey face.
- To make the flag, measure and cut a strip of cardstock 1/2 inch wide X 6 inches long (you can use a paper cutter or a regular pair of scissors). Write your message with marker and roll the end around a wooden toothpick, securing with a dot of glue. Cut a triangle shape from the end.
- Glue the feathers to the turkey body. Cut a triangle beak from yellow felt and a red waddle from red felt. Glue them to the turkey's head.
- Finally, attach the flag. Your turkey is complete!
Notes
- Don't have felt handy? You can substitute yellow craft foam for the beak and red craft foam for the waddle or even use construction paper pieces.
- While we used traditional fall colors for our turkey's features, you can change up the paint colors for a brighter turkey if you prefer.
- Instead of the "Give Thanks" sign, you can add everyone's name to the the turkeys and use them as Thanksgiving place cards.