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Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

A turkey craft made from cardboard for Thanksgiving.

Materials Needed

One of the things I love most about this craft is that we already had everything we needed on hand! The supplies are simple:

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

If you are doing this craft with a classroom full of students you may consider cutting out all the pieces beforehand so that the children just have to assemble the turkey with glue. However, if you are just doing this with a few kids it is wonderful fine motor practice for them to trace and cut all the pieces themselves.

Making a Cardboard Thankful Turkey Craft

The first and most important step is to download the free turkey template below. We printed it out on white cardstock so that it would be sturdy.

We cut each piece of the template out and set them aside.

I traced the body of the turkey onto cardboard and cut it out.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

Using a bunch of fall-colored cardstock I traced the feathers onto the different colors.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

We cut out the feathers and glued eight of them onto the back of each turkey body.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

We traced the wattle, beak, and two feet onto colored cardstock and cut them each out.

Carefully, we glued the beak and wattle to the turkey’s face along with two googly eyes. Finally, we glued the two feet to the bottom of the back of the turkey so they looked like they were peeking out from underneath the fat turkey breast. The turkey was so cute!

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

I helped the younger kids write the names of people, objects, and ideas that they are thankful for on the turkey’s feathers. The older kids wrote their own words.

Thanksgiving is the perfect time of year to teach children the virtue of gratitude. This adorable cardboard thankful turkey craft is simple enough for preschool and kindergarten students to complete with a bit of help or for older children to do on their own.

The kids were thrilled to take their cardboard thankful turkey craft home to show their family and friends. Not only is it a cute Thanksgiving craft, but it also provides such a lovely way for the children to discuss the good things in their lives with others.

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Download your free Cardboard Thankful Turkey Craft template below!

Click the picture below to download.

I hope that you and your students enjoy this precious thankful turkey craft!

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120 Comments

  4. Joy

    Hi
    I have requested this several times and it’s not going to my email for the template for the turkey I want to do this with my Sunday school class. Can you please check and see how we can get this template. Thank you for all your help and it’s such a cute craft.

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  6. Laurie

    Hi I signed up for your emails an I am trying to download the turkey template but I never received an email from you or instructions on downloading. I tried all the troubleshooting tips. Thank you. I tried emailling but my email would not regonize yours as a valid email address.

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  21. Radel

    It seems that the link to this craft is broken seeing as how there are many of us on here trying unsuccessfully to get the link to this cute turkey. As everyone else has asked, “Can you please send me the turkey craft?” Thanks!

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  31. Nikki Geremia

    Hi! I have requested the turkey craft several times as I want to print them for a kindergarten class craft but i haven’t received it. Can you send it please? I would really appreciate it.
    Thank you so much! All of your crafts are adorable!
    Nikki G

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  40. Raul Marte

    Greetings!
    This is a lovely craft to make for this thanksgiving. I have tried several times to obtain the template to no luck. Please help me. I would love to receive the template in order to be able to make this craft with my kids.

    Thank you.

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  41. Tracy Weis

    Hi! I’ve tried the download on multiple occasions, but have never received the email (and multiple people have noted such on Pinterest as well). Is it possible for you to manually send it to me? Thank you!

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  50. Hannah Weise

    Hi! I have signed up twice to have the template sent over to me, but I have never received it. I also just checked my spam folder and it is not there either. I would love to use this template for a class party I am hosting…

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    • Jennifer Hamilton

      Hi Megan, did you click on the download button? Once you click on that and put your email address the download will be sent to your email. Be sure to check your spam and others folders in case the email is send to one of those folders. Hope you enjoy this activity.

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