Fine Motor Turkey Craft
These cute turkeys are a great fall preschool craft and perfect for strengthening fine motor skills!
After you make your turkey craft, you can keep the pieces in a Montessori Bin or a Busy Bag! They're wonderfuly re-usable...perfect for a fun, simple activity or for keeping your little one busy when you need an extra two minutes!
For your own fine motor turkey craft, you will need these
Simple Supplies:
* foam craft sticks
(A big thank you to Craft Project Ideas for providing our foam craft sticks!)
* craft foam for beak and waddle
* clothespins
* plastic plates
* wiggly eyes
* paint and paintbrushes
* glue
Easy How-to:
1- Cut the beaks and waddles (the red dangly thing on turkeys) for your turkeys out of orange and red craft foam.
2- Paint your plates! I love to let kiddos choose what color their turkeys are. Many will go with a traditional brown, but many will want some more color, and that is totally fine! When crafting with young children, I always limit the number of color choices. Today, they could choose from brown, blue, yellow, or black.
Most of my kids painted with their brushes, but we always have a few who use their fingers!
3- Use the wet paint like glue to place the eyes, beak, and waddle. Or wait until it dries and use real glue.
4- While the paint dries, glue the colorful foam craft sticks to clothespins.
5- And now build your turkeys using those growing fine motor skills! When you're done, pull the turkeys apart and save the pieces for a Montessori bin or a Busy Bag!
Just look how hard those little fingers are working!
And here are some of our proud turkeys!
Gobble, gobble, gobble!!
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For your own fine motor turkey craft, you will need these
Simple Supplies:
* foam craft sticks
(A big thank you to Craft Project Ideas for providing our foam craft sticks!)
* craft foam for beak and waddle
* clothespins
* plastic plates
* wiggly eyes
* paint and paintbrushes
* glue
Easy How-to:
1- Cut the beaks and waddles (the red dangly thing on turkeys) for your turkeys out of orange and red craft foam.
2- Paint your plates! I love to let kiddos choose what color their turkeys are. Many will go with a traditional brown, but many will want some more color, and that is totally fine! When crafting with young children, I always limit the number of color choices. Today, they could choose from brown, blue, yellow, or black.
Most of my kids painted with their brushes, but we always have a few who use their fingers!
3- Use the wet paint like glue to place the eyes, beak, and waddle. Or wait until it dries and use real glue.
4- While the paint dries, glue the colorful foam craft sticks to clothespins.
5- And now build your turkeys using those growing fine motor skills! When you're done, pull the turkeys apart and save the pieces for a Montessori bin or a Busy Bag!
Just look how hard those little fingers are working!
And here are some of our proud turkeys!
(This may be an alien turkey.)
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