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Thanksgiving Crafts
Turkey 1
Materials- Sheet of brown construction paper
- Scraps of red and orange construction paper.
- Sunday comic strips or colored advertisement
- Markers/Crayons/Pencil Colors/Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue
Time
Under 1 hour
Procedure
Instruct students to:
- Cut a circle with approximately a 9” diameter from sheet of construction paper.
- Cut a head from the brown sheet of construction paper.
- Cut approximately 25 feathers from the colored newspaper for the wings.
- Glue in fan like position around top half of the circle.
- Cut facial features and glue to head.
- Glue head to top center of the body.
- Cut legs and glue to bottom of circle.
Turkey 2
Materials- Sheet of brown construction paper
- Colored construction paper scraps
- Markers/Crayons/Pencil Colors/Pencil
- Scissors
- Glue
Time
Under 1 hour
Procedure
Instruct students to:
- Fold construction paper in half and cut to form 2 – 6” by 9” rectangles.
- Share with a classmate.
- Cut a 1” by 6” strip to form the body.
- Glue to form a circle.
- Cut a 1” by 3” strip to form the head.
- Cut a rectangular base from what is left.
- Glue body to base and set aside.
- Cut beak, waddle and eyes.
- Glue to head circle.
- Allow to dry.
- Cut multicolor strips approximately ½” by 3” long to form feathers.
- Point one end.
- Glue to bottom back of body circle in a fan shape to form tail.
- Allow to dry.
- Attach head.
