Turkey Feathers Watercolor For Kids
Turkey crafts are great for Thanksgiving. This fun turkey feather watercolor painting is a simple painting craft using a turkey feather.
Kids will have a blast painting different colors of feathers. And you will have a fun turkey that is different for each kid that makes them.
A great Thanksgiving craft for kids in prek, preschool, and kindergarten.
The Turkey Feathers Watercolor is an excellent 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 Feathers Watercolor
Turkey Feather painting is painting inside Turkey Feather cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids.
You can make this turkey feather painting with 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 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 Painting
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- watercolors
- watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
- Turkey Feather cookie cutters
- large paint brush
- 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.
You could also skip the eyes and use wiggle eyes for crafts.
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 Painting
You can see the steps below that we used to make the Turkey Feather watercolor painting.
Step 1: Place the Turkey Feather Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper
You are going to place the turkey feather on the watercolor paper. You will have the feather point toward the circle at the bottom of the page. And if kids don’t do that. It is okay.
Step 2: Hold the Turkey Feather Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside
You hold the cookie cutter in place and then paint inside the cookie cutter. You can hold on the side or the top of the cookie cutter.
Have kids do what is easier for them to do. I know we switch up how we hold the cookie cutters based on the shape of the cookie cutter.
Step 3: Look the the Turkey Feather on the Paper
You can lift up the cookie cutter and see the feather that you painted. You can see the shape of the feather on the paper.
Step 4: Keep Painting Turkey Feather
You are going to keep painting Turkey feathers. This is loads of fun for kids to do. You can just do one row or do two rows of feathers. Let kids decide how much or how little they will do.
You can see how you can overlap the feathers and make different rows of feathers.
Step 5: Glue on the Brown Circle for the Head
You are going to blue on the head of the Turkey at the bottom of the paper. You can see we used the circle we draw to help find the place to put the head.
Step 6: Glue on the Eyes of the Turkey
You will draw the black circles on the white paper to make the eyes. Then you will glue the eyes on the brown cricle.
Step 7: Glue on the Beak of the Turkey
The final step we do is glue the bead on the head of the turkey. This is fun to see how kids od the beak and every one will glue it on differently. And that is okay.
Final look at our Turkey Feather Painting
More Turkey Activities for Kids
Turkey Watercolor Painting is a simple turkey painting with cookie cutters that kids can do and have fun painting lots of turkeys.
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 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.
Torn Paper Turkey Craft is a fun torn paper craft you can make for Thanksgiving. It has a fun look with scrapbook paper for the feathers.
Hands-on Math With Turkey Ten Frame Cards are fun ten frame cards for 1 to 10 with cards filled in to match to match number and cards blank with numbers.
Check out all the fun Thanksgiving Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
