Thanksgiving Thankful Turkey Printable Craft For Kids To Make (Freebie)

Our Thanksgiving thankful turkey printable is a fun way for kids to express gratitude during the Thanksgiving season. 

Simply print out a copy of our thankful turkey craft, color it and write a variety of things you are thankful for on the Turkey’s feathers.

Thanksgiving Thankful Turkey Printable

We love celebrating Thanksgiving with the whole family. At our house, Thanksgiving dinner is usually a really casual gathering of all our extended family. 

We prepare loads of good food, play Thanksgiving bingo, take part in gratitude activities, watch football and catch up on life.

It isn’t a fancy affair but it’s so much fun to spend quality time with family members we don’t always get the opportunity to see.

This year we came up with a fun thanksgiving craft for the kids in our family.  

Our Thankful turkey craft is a great way to encourage younger kids to think about what they are grateful for.

It’s an easy Thanksgiving craft for kids of all ages to express thankfulness leading up to Thanksgiving day.  We enjoyed it so much that I’m sure it’ll become a fun tradition we’ll do from year to year.

Plus, it’s an easy activity that works on fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination. So, this cute thanksgiving craft would also be a great activity for teachers to use with preschool or kindergarten students. 

Continue reading to find out what you’ll need to make this easy craft with the kids in your life.

Craft Supplies

• free thankful turkey template – our free turkey template can easily be downloaded by filling in the form located at the very bottom of the post. The digital file includes 1 pdf file.
• printer and cardstock paper – we highly recommend printing the free template on good quality white card stock to make it thicker and more durable.  
• crayons, coloring pencils, washable markers 
• black marker
• scissors – we love these blunt tip scissors for little hands. They offer a comfort grip a child’s hands while they practice cutting.
• glue sticks or glue dots
• construction paper (optional) – you can glue your completed turkey crafts to pieces of colorful paper before displaying it on a classroom door, cork board or bulletin board.

How to Make A Thankful Turkey Craft

Print a copy of our thanksgiving thankful turkey printable. Color the turkey body and turkey feathers using different colors.  

To make our turkey festive we colored each tail feather in either yellow, orange or red. We used markers but kids can also use wax crayons or coloring pencils.

Using a black marker, trace the outer edge of each of the turkey’s tail feathers.

Tracing the outline in black really makes the turkey feathers pop.

Write something you are thankful for on each tail feather.

Encourage children to get creative and write different things on each feather. We used a black marker to make our writing pop. 

*Teacher tip: use our Thanksgiving thankful turkey printable in your lesson plans as a creative writing activity for older children. Have middle school or high school students expand on each thing they are thankful for using seasonal vocabulary!

Cut out the turkey and each feather.

Especially young children may need some help cutting out the body of the turkey.

Glue the turkey feathers to the back of your turkey using a glue stick or glue dots.

You’ll have enough feathers to glue 3 feathers to the left and right side of the body of the turkey.

*Note: there are 3 feathers that are designed to be glued to the left and 3 feathers that are designed to be glued to the right. Be mindful of the direction before gluing.

More Screen Free Thanksgiving Activities

​Here is a large collection of our favorite screen free Thanksgiving activities for older and younger kids. 

This list includes a variety of fun crafts, free printables and activity pages that are great options for children around Thanksgiving.

These great crafts and activities are great resources for teachers and parents who are looking for creative ways to celebrate Thanksgiving.

• Thanksgiving placemats for kids – an excellent activity for the kids’ table on Thanksgiving
• Pilgrim hat craft – another easy prep craft you can make during the holiday season
• Thanksgiving bingo – one of our most popular free printables around Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving coloring pages – these adorable turkey templates are so much fun to color
• Paper bag acorn craft – an adorable craft perfect for kids in kindergarten and 1st grade
• Cute corn cob craft – little learners love creating these cute paper bag corn cobs
• Fall bucket list – make the best of all the wonderful activities and experiences the fall season has to offer with our free bucket list for families
• Paper bag turkey craft – create an instant thanksgiving bulletin board after making this cute turkey craft with kids 
• Pumpkin puppet craft – children of a variety of different age categories enjoy making this festive craft
• Cute scarecrow craft – a fun little craft you can make in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving color by number – one of our favorite ways to work on number and color recognition
• Free printable Thanksgiving unscramble worksheets – fun independent work for kids in english language arts or social studies anytime during November
• I Spy Thanksgiving – a fun way to work on visual tracking and recognition skills with young learners
• Thanksgiving word search – loaded with Thanksgiving vocabulary is is a great choice for morning work

Download & Print Instructions

To download our free thankful turkey activity you’ll need to fill in the download form located at the bottom of this post.

Once you’ve joined and confirmed you’ll become a member of our mailing list and receive a direct link to instantly download this easy Thanksgiving activity for kids.

To confirm you’ll need to follow the instructions you receive via email.

If you have downloaded from us before and are already subscribed to our email updates, simply complete the form and our software will automatically redirect you to the download link so you can download the pdf file for our cute writing craftivity immediately.

For best results and an optimal experience, we recommend printing our thanksgiving thankful turkey printable on high quality white cardstock paper.

It makes for a better quality crafting experience and is far more durable than standard copy paper is.

Please note that all our printables including this thanksgiving thankful turkey printable is for personal use or classroom use only. All our creations can be used for non commercial purposes in the classroom or at home. Please see our terms of use for more detailed information.

* Struggling to download? Make sure you have the latest version of google chrome or Microsoft Edge installed.

Recommended Reading

Pair our Thanksgiving thankful turkey printable craft with these Thanksgiving themed books!

These 6 books are a nice addition to our Thanksgiving thankful turkey printable. They’re a fun way to continue the fun in anticipation of Thanksgiving.

They do a great job of explaining the first Thanksgiving to young children in kid friendly language that is compelling and easy to understand. 

• I Am Thankful – an adorable rhyming book that looks at how Thanksgiving traditions including acts of kindness and giving can differ between different families. Such a cute book for your children.
• How To Catch a Turkey – a fun book from the How To Catch series has children turning their school upside down trying to find an escaped Turkey.
• The Story of the Pilgrims – an excellent book that tells young children the history of Thanksgiving in kid friendly language.
• Balloons over Broadway – the charming story of the puppeteer behind the giant balloons we see floating during the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade.
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – the classic story of Charlie making a Thanksgiving feast for his friends! Can he pull it off?
• Little Critter: Just a Special Thanksgiving – celebrate Thanksgiving with Little Critter and his family in Critterville.

---

These cute turkey crafts were lots of fun to make with the kids in our family. Even the older kids had a great time writing down what they were grateful for this Thanksgiving.

It’s the perfect activity for teaching younger children about the true meaning of Thanksgiving. Plus, it’s a really simple craft that’s lots of fun to make which makes it a great choice for preschool and primary school teachers.

Plan to use our thanksgiving thankful turkey printable to make your own turkey craft? We’d love to see the finished product. Snap a photo and reach out to us on our Facebook page to let us see your little turkey! We may even share it with our readers!

Got a question for us? Drop us a comment down below using a valid email address. We always do our very best to get back to you as soon as possible.

🦃 Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃

**This post may contain affiliate links. Please note that This Tiny Blue House is an Amazon associate. This means that we are a member of Amazon Services LLC associates program. And, as a member of the Amazon affiliate advertising program we may make a small commission at no additional cost to you for qualifying purchases make through an affiliate link. Please read our disclosure policy found at the top of the page for more information.