My Favorite Turkey Crafts for Thanksgiving
If you’re searching for the perfect turkey craft for your kindergarten classroom this Thanksgiving, you’re in the right place! Kindergarteners love bringing seasonal characters to life, and turkey crafts are the perfect way to blend creativity with simple writing and sharing about gratitude. Today I’m sharing a few of my favorite classroom-friendly turkey craft ideas along with a few helpful tools that pair perfectly with your Thanksgiving lessons.
Start with a Thanksgiving Read-Aloud
Before jumping into the turkey craft, I find it helpful to build a little background knowledge with a Thanksgiving or gratitude-themed read-aloud. For example, if you’re doing an activity about thankfulness, a read aloud can help start a discussion about what it means to be thankful. It also gives them language they can use later when writing on their turkey feathers. Or, you can read about a silly turkey or find out some turkey facts!
If you’re looking for some classroom-friendly titles, I put together a list of my favorite Thanksgiving read-alouds, including books that focus on gratitude, in my Thanksgiving Read Alouds blog post. Reading one of these stories first gives students ideas to draw from and helps the craft feel even more meaningful.
After your read-aloud discussion, your students will be ready to jump into their turkey crafts with plenty of ideas and inspiration!
I Am Thankful Turkey Craft
This turkey craft has been one of my go-to Thanksgiving activities for more than a decade! Students can use a graphic organizer as a brainstorming tool before creating the turkey craft. This is optional, but I like to complete the graphic organizer one day, and then begin the turkey craft the next day.
Assembly is really straightforward. Students will color and cut out the pieces. Once the turkey is assembled, students will write or draw something they are thankful for on each turkey feather.
You can find this turkey craft in this bundle!
Turkey Counting Craft
Here’s another fun turkey craft, and this one incorporates a little math practice! This Turkey Number Craft is fun, adorable, AND practices number order and tracing numbers to 10!
These make the CUTEST bulletin boards! I mean, just look at those turkey legs!
Turkey Placemat Craft
Here’s another simple turkey craft, and this one makes a great keepsake! This Thankful Turkey placemat craft includes simple templates that you can use to create Thanksgiving placemats.
This craft is really similar to my other turkey craft. It also includes a planning page to help students brainstorm ideas. The biggest difference is that it’s perfectly sized to be glued onto a 12”x18” piece of construction paper. Laminate them and send them home – families love these Thanksgiving keepsakes!
More Turkey Activities for Kindergarten
If you love the idea of a turkey craft but you’re short on time, here are a couple turkey-themed printable activities that might help you out!
- Turkey-Themed Skill Practice Pages: This pack includes 40 no-prep, ready-to-use activities that are perfect for independent practice, morning work, and more! Skills covered include ten frames, making 5, addition, subtraction, sound isolation, rhyming, CVC words, and more.
- Thanksgiving Color by Number Pages: These pages gear more toward Thanksgiving, but there’s a turkey page included! These are great for morning work or early finishers!
- Thanksgiving Directed Drawing Pages: Again, these are more Thanksgiving-themed, but a turkey page is included.
Enjoy these Turkey Crafts this Thanksgiving!
I hope you and your students have a blast with these turkey crafts! They’re a simple way to bring creativity, gratitude, and a little holiday cheer into your classroom. It’s a crazy time of year, so save yourself the time and check out all of these activities in my TPT shop!
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