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Turkey Pencils

By Melanie W in Activities for Kids

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With Thanksgiving nearing, it’s a great time of year to focus on our many blessings.  These Turkey Pencils are a fun Thanksgiving craft to do with your kids plus a fun way to open up conversation about thankfulness. 

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for! this idea now...

How to Make Turkey Pencils

Materials Needed:

  • Pencils
  • Pom pom in assorted colors
  • Googly eyes
  • Felt
  • Hot glue gun
  • Scissors
  • Red ribbon, optional

Before starting, heat your hot glue gun. I feel like there should be an age rating on hot glue guns like there are on video games. Since I’m crafting with 7 and 9 year olds, my hot glue gun is rated PG. They’re pretty great crafters, and I know that with supervision I can trust them to use it safely.  But it’s up to you if you want to holster the glue gun when your young crafters are around.

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

To begin, you’ll need to create the body for your turkey. Using pom pom in assorted colors is a quick and easy way to make your turkey.  However, you can opt to use a pom pom maker to add another DIY element to your lil’ gobbler.

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

Cut out a diamond-shape out of orange felt to serve as the turkey’s beak. You’ll fold it in half & glue the bottom half onto the pom pom.  Having the top half of the beak free will allow for lots of gobbling.  I chose to put a small dab of glue on the inside of my beak to keep the triangle shape.

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

Attach 2 googly eyes to your turkey using your hot glue gun. 

After making mine, my daughter pointed out that the eyes were stickers and all I had to do was peel off the backing.  Adding to my thankful list “Children who are smarter than their mother.”

Now for the feathers! I wanted my turkey pencil to have multiple colors for its feathers, so I used a variety of felt. I cut 5 feather shaped pieces.  Don’t be scared of cutting your own. They’re basically ovals with a point. 

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

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To attach the feathers, I first glued them to each other using my hot glue gun. I glued them at the bottom so feathers can rustle in the wind.

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

I had better luck sandwiching the pencil in between the pom pom turkey body and the feathers. It does eliminate use of the pencil’s eraser, but when you’re writing what you’re thankful for there are no mistakes.

We added a bow with red ribbon, but that’s totally optional. You could also add a wattle (you know, the red thingy under a turkey’s beak) with a bit of red felt to your turkey pencils. 

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

My girls and I had a great time crafting these Turkey Pencils for Thanksgiving. I want them to know that it’s more than just a day to eat pumpkin pie, and incorporate thankfulness throughout their days. These Turkey Pencils are a great craft for writing out all your many blessings and having some fun together.

If you love “thankful” activities with your kids, check out our Thankful Turkey Box too.

Turkey Pencils Craft for Kids - Kids will love crafting their own turkey pencils for Thanksgiving with this easy craft and when they’re finished, everyone can write what they are thankful for!

 

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    Filed Under: Activities for Kids, Arts and Crafts, Fall, Seasonal, Thanksgiving Tagged With: Thanksgiving, turkey recipesPublished on November 8, 2016

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