Turkey feather painting

I know it is a bit late, but if you are still looking for a turkey craft, that is a little more on the open-ended side, then check this one out.

I gave the boys a printout of  feathers ( I got my copy from The Mailbox, but you could draw your own),with paints on a plate, and each a feather.

They painted the turkey feathers with a feather. I was amazed that Alligator was semi-interested in this. He actually painted a bit.

 

Monkey chose to fill in each of his feathers with a different color.

   

Here are Alligator and Monkey’s finished paintings

 

Then once the dried we cut them out and glued them to a turkey cut out (again from The Mailbox, and you could draw your own).

Here is Alligators. Monkey is still working on his!

Turkey craft

Monkey is home from school today with a stomach virus. So he and I got the chance to make this turkey craft. This craft is inspired by someone’s post, but I can’t remember where. If you do, please let me know!

The coolest thing about this craft, is that you cut a triangle out of the paper plate before you start, for the nose. I love this idea!!!! (if only I could remember whose idea it was?!?!?!)

Then we painted the nose the face, and around the sides.

We cut a gobbler out of craft foam, and used pom-poms for eyes (with a dot of paint, for the iris). Then we glued on some feathers.

 

   

I love monkey’s turkey, it turned out so cool and crazy looking! Reminds me of one of our favorite books:

I hope you enjoy!

Find the feathers – gross motor thanksgiving game

These turkey’s have lost there feathers:

 

Can you help them find them?

YAY!!!! We got the turkey’s feather’s back!

 

We played the game sort of like an Easter egg hunt. Someone hid the feathers, then the boys were sent off to find them.  You can declare a winner, and that person hides them the next time, or if you are playing with little kids you can have the older kids help the little kids find their feathers.

 

Even my husband and I had a good time playing… This would be fun with lots of kids on Thanksgiving, a way to get some energy out. Even the adults will enjoy it

You could also play outside.

You could put the feathers in a bowl and have the kids go through an obstacle course to get each feather. They start again to collect the next one.

Turkey Counting

I made a new game for Monkey to practice his counting. He can count great, but he really needs practice with the actual pointing and counting. He seems to miss items when he is counting.

I bought this foam turkey kit at Michaels for like 4.99 on sale. Monkey and I put them together, then I drew dots (1 to 10) on each turkey.

Then using a pin the hat on the pumpkin game I bought from the dollar bin at Target, I made a game board (basically I wrote the number 1-10 on it).

So now Monkey has to count and then match the the turkey to the correct space.

Monkey was acting super cool when this picture was taken. (I swear he looks like he has had way too much fun on Halloween).

He seems to really like the game.