DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Handprint and Footprint Turkey Craft
We used Mommy, Tasha and Kaitlyn's handprints and Daddy's foot!
Materials:
- a printer,
- paper ,
- scissors
- glue, and
- something to colour with.
Instructions:
- Print out the craft template of choice.
- Colour pieces, as necessary.
- Cut out the pieces. This step may require adult assistance.
- Trace around child's foot (or for a bigger turkey, around an adult's foot). Brown construction paper or a brown paper bag work well. The foot will serve as the turkey's body.
- If everyone is still in the mood, trace around child's hands multiple times on
different colours of construction paper (gift wrap works too).
- The trick to the turkey is that more hand prints make it better!
If we're bored of craft time, just skip the handprints and add a few simple construction paper feathers to finish your turkey.
- Optional: You can decorate the handprints with squiggly marker lines, glitter glue pens, sequins or real feathers.
- An Alternative: You can combine the hands of the whole family or classroom to make one big turkey!.
- Glue the handprints onto the body in layers to make the tail feathers (see picture above).
- Glue the face and feet from the printable template to the body to finish or just cut out a triangle of orange paper for the beak and add some googly eyes.
Templates:
- After printing, close the template window to return to the main page.
- If the template doesn’t fit on one page, adjust your printer margins:
• In most browsers: Print → More settings → Margins → Minimum
• Or use Page Setup / Printer Setup in your printer dialog
Template (color) or (B&W)
Printable version of these instructions
