Thanksgiving Craft: Paper Plate Turkeys Using Tissue Paper

With a few supplies you can create Paper Plate Turkeys to get into the Thanksgiving spirit this year.  This is a super duper easy craft to do.  My girls and I had so much fun making our turkeys together.  I will save these and pull them out in future years.

Materials Required to Make Paper Plate Turkeys

• Tissue Paper – I found crafting tissue paper at JoAnns for $3.99.  Using a 50% coupon dropped the price to $2.00.  (Find current printable Craft Store Coupons here)
• Construction Paper
• Googley Eyes (optional, but very cute!)
• Paper Plates (cut in half)
• Scissors
• Glue or a glue paste mixture (see the Glitter Pumpkin tutorial for more on the Modge Podge like mixture that I make for craft projects)

Thanksgiving Craft – How to Make Paper Plate Turkeys

• Cut the paper plate (or you can use a bowl) in half.  It doesn’t have to be perfect.
• Cut the tissue paper into small squares or rectangles.  You really don’t need a lot.
• Glue the tissue paper to the plate using the glue from the bottle or a paintbrush and the watered down glue mixture.
• Cut a circle out of brown paper.  This will be the head.
• Cut a triangle for a beak out of orange paper.  Cut out some legs too!
• Cut a waddle/gobble (what IS that thing called?) out of red.
• Glue it all together!

Thanksgiving Reading Materials

This was a very easy craft for my daughters (elementary school) to complete. If you are looking for Thanksgiving crafts check out this Thanksgiving Craft | Make a Stuff the Turkey Game and these Pine Cone Turkeys

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