Fall Activities for Children
Paper Plate Turkey
Supplies you will need:
⦁Paper Plate
⦁Craft Knife ( for adult use ONLY)
⦁Acrylic Paint ( Various colors including Brown and Yellow)
⦁Paint Brush
⦁Red foam sheet or cardstock paper
⦁White cardstock paper
⦁2-inch circle punch
⦁2 large googly eyes
Directions
⦁Start by using a craft knife to cut a triangle in the center of the paper plate for a beak. (Note: if you don’t have a craft knife or don’t want to do this part, you can always just cut a beak out of yellow paper and glue it on in Step 3.)
⦁Paint the beak yellow, the face brown, and use the variety of colors to paint feathers around the plate. Let the paint completely dry.
⦁When the paint is completely dry, punch 2 white circles out with your 2 inch circle punch, or cut two round circles. Glue them onto your plate. Glue your large googly eyes onto the white circles. Next cut a snood out of your red foam sheet or cardstock paper and glue it onto your turkey.
Hand and Foot Print Turkey Craft
Supplies you will need:
⦁Paint ( Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Yellow, Brown)
⦁Construction paper (white preferably)
⦁Googly Eyes
Directions
⦁Paint the child’s hands with blue, red, orange, green and yellow. Place the handprints onto the white construction paper, and let it dry once the handprints are dry, cut them out.
⦁Paint the child’s foot with brown. Place the footprint onto the white construction paper, and let it dry. Once the foot print is dry, cut the footprint out.
⦁Glue all the pieces together, glue the hands in the back of the footprint.
⦁Add the googly eyes, beak, and snood the footprint to make the turkey.
HAPPY FALL!!!