Turkey Feather Stamp Painting for Thanksgiving
Turkey Feather Stamp Painting is a great Thanksgiving craft you can make with kids. It is fun to see the turkey come to life.
And the stamping feathers is an easy way to paint for kids. And will have fun with it.
You can do this with kids in preschool, prek, and kindergarten. Kids will love stamping the feathers on the paper.
The Turkey Feather Stamp Painting is a great addition to the Turkey Crafts and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.
What is Cookie Cutter Painting?
Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.
Turkey Feather Stamp Painting With Cookie Cutters
This is a fun turkey painting using cookie cutters for making the feathers of the turkey. A simple turkey craft that works for kids in preschool (ages 3 to 4), prek (ages 4 to 5), and kindergarten (ages 5 to 6).
Turkey Book to Read With the Turkey Feather Stamp Painting Craft
A great Book to read with this Turkey craft is There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey! It is a fun read and kids will love the sequencing in the story.
What we used to make the Turkey Feather Stamp Painting
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- Turkey Feather cookie cutters
- washable paints
- watercolor paper
- brown circle construction paper – made tracing circle cookie cutters
- orange and white construction paper
- 5/8 inch circle shape
- black markers
- glue or glue stick
Things You Could Prepare Ahead of Time
There are some of the things you could prepare ahead of time for younger kids. But know that older kids could do these steps.
Make the Brown Circles for the Turkey Body
We used a circle cookie cutter and trace the circle and then cut out the brown circles. If you are doing this ahead of time you can cut several circles at the same time.
If kids are doing this let them hold the cookie cutter and trace the circle and then cut the circle out out.
Cut out the Orange Beaks
You fold orange construction paper and then cut triangles out of the folded paper. You can have older kids do this step.
Punch Out the Circles
Then you are going to punch out small 5/8 circles for the turkey’s eyes. This step is easy for kids to do but if time is a limit of you don’t have any punches you can do in advance.
Draw Part of a Circle on the Watercolor Paper
You can draw a small circle on the watercolor paper. This is to help kids see where the weathers should be stamped around. It is a guide and you can skip this step if you want. But it does help.
You can have older kids trace the circle on their paper. Just have them put part of the 1/4 circle off the paper.
How We Made The Turkey Feather Stamp Painting
You can see the steps below that we used to make the Turkey Feather Stamp painting.
Step 1: Paint On Paper Plate Or Tray
You are going to put paint in the shape of the feather on a paper plate. Then you can let kids use the cookie cutter to spread the paint around to cover the edges of the feather cookie cutter.
Step 2: Stamping The Cookie Cutter On The Paper
You are going to put the cookie cutter on the paper. You can start with any color kids want. You can see how you can see the shape of the feather on the paper.
And yes you might have a few cookie cutter stamps off the paper. You can use a paper under if you are worried about the paint on the table.
Step 3: Keep Stamping Turkey Feather On The Paper
You are then going to keep stamping feathers on the paper. It is simple and easy to do. You can start with one color and then use other colors.
Step 4: Make Rows of Feathers
You are going to make rows of feathers. You can see how the feathers overlap each other. It is a simple and fun painting idea for the feathers.
It makes the feathers look like they are spread out.
If your feathers don’t all like right or in a semi circle that is okay! Lets kids be creative while they are doing this.
Step 5: Glue on the Brown Circle
You are going to glue the brown circle at the bottom of the paper in the center of the feathers. You don’t need a lot of glue because the paint will help the circle stay in place.
We used liquid glue but you could also use a glue stick.
Step 6: Make the Eyes and Glue on the Brown Circle
You are going to take the white circles and draw eyes. Then you glue the eyes on the brown circle on the paper.
Step 7: Glue on the Beak for the Turkey
The final step is to blue the orane beak on the turkey. And then you are all done with the craft.
Your turkey is now done!
Final Look At Our Turkey Feather Stamp Painting
More Turkey Crafts & Printables for Kids
The No-Prep Turkey Week Packs are great for working on disguising a turkey and turkey themed activities for prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.
The Washi Tape Turkey is tons of fun to make and looks really neat when it is done. It is also great for fine motor and kids don’t even know it.
Turkey Color Pack is a great color pack that has matching puzzles, word puzzles, color word worksheets, an easy reader book, color clip cards, turkey color feather matching, and more!
I Am Not A Turkey Easy Reader Book is a great easy reader book about what the turkey is hiding as! The last page lets kids disguise the turkey. This is a favorite on the site!
Turkey, Corn, and Pie Dot the Number & Count the Dots works on numbers 0 to 20 with a color and black & white option with dot markers.
Turkey Watercolor Painting is a simple turkey painting with cookie cutters that kids can do and have fun painting lots of turkeys.
Turkey Fine Motor Mats has 5 different mats with turkey themes with turkey tracing mat, turkey template, turkey dot marker and turkey q-tip mat. Easy fine motor activities for Thanksgiving.
Turkey Activity Pack has Prewriting, Shapes, ABCs, & Numbers all with a turkey theme. It has easy reader books, no-prep printables, tracing strips, and clip cards that all work together.
Check out all the fun Thanksgiving Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
