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DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Turkey Fan Toilet Paper Roll Craft
This is a cute three dimensional turkey craft suitable for
a Thanksgiving theme, farm theme, birds theme, animals theme or letter T theme.
This particular project uses a fan as the tail... that
makes it a bit more complicated than my typical Toilet
Paper Roll Crafts but it looks really cute!
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Materials:
- Fan:
- white paper
- brown, red and orange paint, markers or crayons
- stapler or glue
- Body:
- toilet paper roll,
- something to colour with,
- scissors,
- glue, and
- a printer,
- paper
Instructions - Fan:
- Lay your white paper in front of you so the longest edge faces you
- Divide your paper into three sections
- Color or paint the top section orange, the middle section red and
the bottom section brown
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- Again, with the long edge facing you, fan fold the paper:
- fold about 3/4 inches up (older children can fold a tighter
fan... as small as 1/4 inch)
- flip your paper over
- fold the same distance up
- flip your paper over
- fold the paper
- flip the paper
- fold, flip, fold, flip... until you've folded all the paper
- Note: Fan folding is one of the most challenging
"crafting" skills you'll bump into when working with young
children (I still supervise my 8 year old when she starts a fan
fold). The most common error is that they'll forget to flip
the paper over between folds.
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- Crease the paper in the center to make a nice big fan
- Staple the paper in the center so your fan doesn't flop open
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Instructions - Body:
- Print out the template of choice.
- Colour (where appropriate) and cut out the
template pieces.
- Glue the large rectangular piece on first to
cover the tube.
- Trim the tube to be the same height as the rectangle (I've made the turkey
short so you can see the fan)
- Glue on the head, feet, wings and wobbler
- Use tape and a bit of glue to attach the fan to the back of the turkey
(this step will likely require adult assistance)
Templates:
- Close the template window after printing to return to this screen.
- Set page margins to zero if you have trouble fitting the template on one
page (FILE, PAGE SETUP or FILE, PRINTER SETUP in most browsers).
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