Shapes Turkey Craft - 
Shapes, Scissor Skills, Colors, and Counting Practice

This craft can be used to teach a variety of skills. You don't have to use all the thoughts for lessons... just choose the ones you're working on with your child. I have included a small version of the template as well as a large version that used multiple template pages.
 

Materials:

• scissors,
• glue,
• printer,
• paper

Thoughts for Lessons:

SCISSOR SKILLS:

• This craft has lots of circles and ovals to cut out -- good scissor practice!
• You can precut the template into separate pieces (roughly) to make it a bit easier for beginning crafters to cut out the shapes.

SHAPES:

• Separate the circles, ovals and triangles.

COLORS:

• Verbally instruct the children on how to assemble the shapes using the colors of the shapes. (ie: Take the orange triangle and glue it on the brown circle.).

SIZES:

• Show the children two circles and ask -- is this one bigger, smaller or the same size as that one.

COUNTING:

• Count the circles, ovals and triangles.

Assembly Directions:

• Glue the small circle as a head on top of the larger body circle.

• Glue the circle eyes and red oval to the head.

• Glue the triangle beak slightly overlapping the oval.

• Glue the medium sized oval wings onto the sides of the body.

• Glue the triangle feet onto the bottom of the body.

• Glue the large colorful oval feathers onto the back of the body.