DLTK's Crafts for Kids
Turkey Wreath

This is a fun turkey wreath to do by yourself or with a group.

If you are doing it with a group, each person can write something they are thankful for on one of the strips of construction paper before making it into a loop.

Materials:

• Ring of cardboard (empty cereal boxes work wonderfully)
• construction paper (red, orange and yellow)
• scissors,
• glue

Instructions:

• Trace a small plate and a large plate onto a piece of old cardboard.
• Empty cereal boxes or frozen dinner boxes work well
• It doesn't matter if you go over the folds of the cardboard

• Cut a small strip of cardboard and glue it onto the back of the ring over any folds in the cardboard.
• This will reinforce the ring.
• Cut strips of construction paper (about 1 1/2 inches by 4 inches)
• Glue the strips into rolls (like making a paper chain)

• Glue the rolls of construction paper onto the wreath.  We made a red, orange and yellow pattern, but you can do it however you wish.

• Trace a child's footprint onto a piece of white paper.
• Color this brown (it will be the turkey's head)
• Cut out a teardrop shape and color orange (it will be the turkey's beak)
• Cut out two ovals and put eyeballs in them
• Cut out a wobbler from red paper

• Fold a piece of orange construction paper in half and cut out a foot shape (this will make two identical feet.
• OR:  Use the template pieces below for the face and feet.
• Glue the feet to the back of the wreath.
• Glue the footprint body to the front of the wreath
• Glue the face to the body and hang up your wreath.