Thanksgiving Paper Bag Puppet Handprint Turkey Craft for Kids of All Ages

Thanksgiving is coming! If you need a fun, quick, and easy activity to keep the kiddos busy for a little while on Thanksgiving Day, this might be an option for you! Or, maybe your kids have the whole week off like mine does and you really need something to do with them. In any case, it’s really cute and very easy, so little hands can participate too. 

 Materials: 
Paper Lunch Bags
Construction Paper
Google Eyes (or just use paper or craft foam)
Writing utensil
Scissors
Glue
Brown Marker

Trace hands on colored paper. You can do each piece/color of paper separately, or clip them all together like I did and cut 7 hands out at once! 

Cut out all the hands.

Color the bag with the brown marker! Whee! (or skip if the lunch bag is already brown)

Cut out a beak and wattle out of scraps of the appropriately colored paper. 

Turn the bag over to the back and add glue down the sides of the bag. Be generous.

Put the handprints on the glue. 

Turn the bag over again to the "front" (careful if you have lots of glue on the other side) and glue your google eyes, beak, and wattle to the front. You want the beak and wattle to be on the top part of the “crease” so that you can make a puppet out of it. Don’t glue the beak and/or wattle to the bottom part otherwise you will have glued the turkey’s mouth shut and your poor turkey won't be able to say anything!

Now, you can stick your hand in and use your new turkey puppet! 

What does your turkey say?