Kids Craft - Hand and Foot Print Turkey

Here's another 1 from my childhood. This adorable Meleagris gallopavo utilizes your children's manus and ft prints. It can be used as a ornament and then saved from twelvemonth to twelvemonth as a keepsake. Best of all, no two will be exactly alike, so each of your children can do their ain alone Thanksgiving Day turkey.

- First, take a sheet of brownish building paper and follow your child's feet. You can make this with, or with out shoes, but you will have got a more than rounded Meleagris gallopavo if you go forth the place on.
- Cut out the feet. Glue the heals, one on top of the other, allowing the toes to be spreading apart slightly. This volition give your Meleagris gallopavo a fuller body.
- Trace your child's hands. Cut out respective in a assortment of autumn colors.
- Glue the custody to the dorsum of the feet, these volition go your turkey's tail.
- Now cut out and gum a beak, wattle, eyes, and feet onto your turkey.

Additional options:

- When tracing and cutting, usage the contrary side, the 1 you have got not written on, as the presence of your turkey.
- The eyes can be drawn, made with building paper, or wiggly eyes can be used for fun.
- If your Meleagris gallopavo is level (no wiggley eyes), you can gum the full thing to an 11 x 17 sheet of paper and laminate it to do a topographic point mat. Or you can just laminate the Meleagris gallopavo to salvage from twelvemonth to year.

Enjoy this craft, and have got a Happy Thanksgiving