Time To Create A Paper Plate Turkey!

A fun and engaging craft to hone your little one’s motor skills and creativity!

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Age Range – 3 – 4 years

Primary Skills – Fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination

Materials:

• Paper plate/chart paper
• Plain paper/newspaper
• Cardboard (optional)
• Ribbons/coloured paper/magazine pages
• Paints
• Containers and paintbrush
• Scissors
• Glue
• Pencil and ruler
• Stapler/tape (optional)

Instructions:

• Let’s begin by drawing and cutting out all the elements needed to make the turkey craft.
  • Take a paper plate or draw and cut a plate-sized circle out of chart paper for the body.
  • For the head, let your child trace a bowl-sized circle on cardboard (cereal, tea, or delivery box), or chart paper, and you can cut it out.
  • To make the eyes, help your child draw the figure ‘8’ (make it nice and fat!), and you can carefully cut out its outline from plain paper or newspaper.
  • For the nose, draw and cut out a triangle from plain paper or newspaper.
  • To make the tongue, help your child draw a long and narrow ‘U’ shape on plain paper or newspaper, join the open ends with a line, and carefully cut it out.
  • For the legs, draw on cardboard or chart paper (same as used for the head) two rectangles that connect to narrow W-shaped feet and cut them out carefully.
  • Lastly, to make the ‘feathers’, if you do not have ribbons to spare, cut out about 18 – 20 long, narrow strips from coloured paper, newspaper, or magazine pages (see image for reference). Make sure to use the bright, colourful magazine pages for these strips!
• Once all the elements are ready, it’s time to get painting! Set out different paints in separate containers for your child, and let him have a go at them!
  • Paint the body in light brown.
  • If chart paper has been used for the head and legs, paint them dark brown.
  • Make the nose orange.
  • Make the tongue pink.
  • Draw two dots in the ‘8’ shape of the eyes (refer to image).
  • If strips of the newspaper have been used for the feathers, help your child colour them in bright colours!
• Let all the paintings dry thoroughly.
• Now, let’s get pasting!
  • Let’s start with the feathers. Help your child fold over each paper strip, and either glue or staple the ends together.
  • Next, paste the head in the middle centre of the body.
  • On the head, paste the nose, tongue, and eyes as shown.
  • Then, paste the two legs at the bottom.
  • Lastly, glue or staple the feathers all around the sides of the body! (See image for reference.)

The cute little turkey is ready to display! Wasn’t that so much fun?