Pumpkin turkey Thanksgiving fine motor craft

If you’ve got extra pumpkins sitting around after Halloween, I’ve got the perfect Thanksgiving craft for you!

These pumpkin turkeys are adorable and they really give kids’ fine motor skills a workout.

Won’t these turkeys look adorable on your Thanksgiving table this year?

Note: For more Thanksgiving activities your kids will love, see my Thanksgiving Activities for Kids page.

Start by making the face of your turkey. My kids cut out a figure that looked like a small circle on top of a large circle.

They then added googly eyes, a small nose, and a waddle (the flap of red skin under the turkey’s chin).

To make the main body of the pumpkin turkey, you’ll need a pumpkin and some feathers.

I drew a line on the back of the pumpkin to give my kids a sense for where they should insert the feathers.

We found that it worked best to poke a hole in the pumpkin flesh using a toothpick first, and then insert the feather into the hole.

The kids inserted enough feathers to really make a grand turkey.

And here was their completed pumpkin turkey!

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