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Hand Print Turkey


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These hand print turkeys are a great craft to make with your children. Made with tracings of your kids' hands and feet, they can be a keepsake to hold on to. Completed handprint turkey with wobble.

 

Approximate Time: 30 minutes

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Supplies:

  • construction paper (tan, orange, yellow, red)
  • scissors
  • glue stick
  • google eyes
  • pencil

Instructions:

  1. Trace around both of your child's feet on tan construction paper.
  2. Tracing of feet on tan construction paper.
     

  3. Trace around your child's hand on the yellow, red, and orange construction paper. You need 2 in each color.
  4. Hand prints on assorted paper.
     

  5. Cut out all of your tracings.
  6. Cutouts of hands and feet.
     

  7. Overlap your feet tracings at the heel and glue together to create the turkey's body. If you don't erase your pencil lines, ensure that they are on the back of both tracings.
  8. Two foot prints glued together to form body.
     

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  9. Turn the "body" over so that your pencils lines are up. Begin arranging your hand tracings along the edge of his body to form his tail. Again, make sure the pencil lines are facing you so that they don't show on the front.
  10. Adding handprints for tail.
     

  11. Glue the feathers in place on the back of the body. Then turn him over.
  12. Front view of turkey with completed tail.
     

  13. On a scrap of orange paper, draw two simple feet. You can draw one on a folded piece of paper to ensure that the feet look the same once they are cut out.
  14. Cut out the feet and glue them to the bottom of his body.
  15. Turkey feet drawn on paper.
     
    Turkey with feet attached.
     

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  16. On a scrap of yellow paper, draw a triangle for his beak. Cut out.
  17. On a scrap of red paper, draw a thin, long oval, for his wobble.
  18. Glue the wobble to his beak.
  19. Glue two google eyes onto your turkey.

You are done. Enjoy!

By lalala... from Port Orchard, WA

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November 17, 20110 found this helpful

Very cute idea, especially if personalized! Thanks for sharing.

 
November 18, 20110 found this helpful

I did this turkey with my grandson yesterday and he had so much fun! He especially loved tracing his feet & hands! Thanks for the idea!

 

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