Easy Tissue Paper Turkey Craft

I love easy and inexpensive activities, which is why I love this Tissue Paper Turkey Craft.

A fun activity for children and simple to put together, this tissue paper turkey is bound to get creative artistic juices flowing with a bit of learning thrown into the mix. Thanksgiving is the perfect time to present this Tissue Paper Turkey Craft to kids and is wonderful to do together as a group.

Tissue Paper Turkey Craft

Turkey Craft Materials

• Turkey outline
• Tape
• Clear self-adhesive contact paper
• Tissue Paper
• Construction paper
• Scissors
• Variously shaped Paper hole punches

How to Make the Turkey Craft

• Print out your turkey outline
• Cut it out
• Tape contact paper onto a window
• Place your turkey into the contact paper
• Use the paper hole punch to make festive shapes from the construction paper
• Invite the kids to tear and cut the various colors of tissue paper
• Discuss the colors created by the overlapping tissue paper
• When satisfied with your turkey, pull it off the window
• Flip it over so the body of the turkey shows clearly
• Cut loosely around the turkey
• Mount the turkey on construction paper and cover with cleat tape
• Display

Tissue Paper Turkey Learning

• fine motor skill work with cutting, punching, and tearing
• science of light
• color exploration
• sensory (stickiness of paper, the sound of tearing, the sight of light through paper)

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Marnie