Creative Clothespin Turkey Crafts for Thanksgiving
Published:
November 1, 2021
Contributor:
Sarah Shelton
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Are you looking for some creative crafts for your children to do this Thanksgiving season? A clothespin turkey craft uses simple craft supplies that you may already have on hand around the house. Clothespin crafts are easy and also pretty mess-free.
Clothespin Turkey Crafts
An easy thanksgiving craft to help your kids with their fine motor skills are clothespin turkeys. These thanksgiving crafts use wooden clothespins that can be left plain or painted with brown craft paint, googly eyes, and a hot glue gun or glue sticks to assemble.
There are many simple supplies you can use to create them such as: acrylic craft paint, red craft foam, yellow craft foam, and even toilet paper tubes.
There are lots of creative ways to create the cutest thanksgiving turkeys. Supplies can be purchased at any craft store and many can be found cheap at your local dollar store.
Make Your Own Clothespin Turkey Craft
Take an ordinary wooden clothespin and turn it into an adorable clothespin turkey craft. This classic turkey kids craft is so much fun to make with your kids. Kids will love the wiggle eyes and pretty feathers that shake as you play with it. The triangle beak and waddle is simple to make with tiny scraps of construction paper.
Clothespin Hand Turkey
A fun turkey craft for small children is to trace their hand out onto a piece of cardstock. They can then use markers or paint to decorate the body of the turkey. Cut out a round head and use googly eyes for the face. These make great keepsake crafts.
Clothespin and Leaf Turkey Craft
Are you looking for a more autumn themed turkey craft? This adorable leaf turkey craft has a free printable template for the leaves. You can use autumn colored cardstock to get the pretty fall colored leaves. If your kids like to paint they can paint the turkey body with brown acrylic paint.
Clothespin Floral Leaf Turkeys
If you have floral fall leaves laying around from your Thanksgiving decorations it is very simple to make a cute turkey craft with them. Just glue the leaves to the back of the clothespin and create a little face. There is no extra cutting that needs to be done.
Accordion Fold Clothespin Turkey
Practice the art of paper folding by having your children create a large accordion fold from construction paper. The folded paper will create the large turkey feathers for this cute accordion fold clothespin turkey.
Clothespin and Feather Turkey Craft
Using bright and colorful feathers makes this feather turkey clothespin so delightful. There are directions on how to make it with felt feathers as well.
Cupcake Liner Clothespin Turkey Craft
Colorful cupcake liners make a cute turkey craft that little ones will enjoy putting together. All you need is one cupcake liner folded in half, a clothespin and some googly eyes and markers.
Clothespin Turkey Craft from Book Pages
This creative craft uses pages from a book to create a clothespin turkey with feathers made from book pages. We thought this was such a great idea from Giggles Galore that would be an awesome gift for a book lover. It also looks lovely as a centerpiece for your table with mini wood slices and fall decor added to it.
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Sarah Shelton
Sarah is a wife, daughter of the King and Mama to 4 children (two homeschool graduates) She is a an eclectic, Charlotte Mason style homeschooler that has been homeschooling for over 20 years. She is still trying to find the balance between work and keeping a home and gardens. She can only do it by the Grace of God, coffee and green juice!
