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Thanksgiving is a great time to show thanks! And this simple thankful turkey clothespin craft will get your kids in the holiday spirit.
My daughters and I have done many activities to display our gratitude over the years.
Gratitude trees, thankful wreaths, and thankful chains have adorned our house in the past.
This year we decided to create something new. We made thankful clothespin turkey crafts!
Supplies Needed for Thankful Turkey Craft
Here are the supplies we used for each of our Thanksgiving turkey clothespin crafts.
- paint (various fall colors)
- paintbrushes
- toilet paper tube
- 6 wooden clothespins
- 2 googly eyes
- permanent marker
- paper plates (optional)
- glue (optional)
- table cover (suggested)
Directions for Making Clothespin Turkey Craft
I began by gathering the supplies for our thankful turkeys and covering our craft area table.
My daughters chose the red, orange, yellow, and blue paints.
So, I poured a little of each onto the paper plate.
Next, my daughters painted the wooden clothespins with one color each.
They decided to paint only one side on most of them, but you could paint both sides if desired.
After they painted the thankful clothespins, they set them on a paper plate to dry.
We learned it is best to keep the paint away from the inside of the tip that sticks together on the clothespin.
Otherwise, that part REALLY sticks together when the paint dries.
While we were waiting for the clothespins to dry, we added googly eyes to the toilet paper tubes to make the turkey part of the craft.
My daughters put a spare clothespin on the top of the tube as a reference point for the eyes.
One daughter chose to paint the googly eyes on (with red paint).
My other daughter glued the googly eyes on.
Both paint and glue dripped quite a bit.
My daughter commented that the thankful turkey crafts were crying because their cousins were being eaten for Thanksgiving.
You could always glue the eyes on with hot glue and then it wouldn’t drip.
Or buy self adhesive googly eyes and make it super easy!
They also painted beaks on to the toilet paper tubes.
One used yellow.
The other used blue, and she painted “wings” on the sides.
Next, we left the thankful turkey crafts to dry on the paper plate with the painted clothespins.
When the clothespins were dry, I wrote what my daughters said they were thankful for on each of them.
Finally, my daughters placed their turkey’s feathers (the thankful clothespins) on to their turkey crafts (the toilet paper tubes).
What are you thankful for this year?
Whether Thanksgiving falls in October or November where you are, join us in celebrating by sharing some gratitude in the comments below!
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