How to Catch a Turkey Storybook Toddler Art Activity

This storybook toddler turkey art activity is a great way to incorporate a fun book with art, work on fine motor skills, and learn about colors.

It’s Turkey time and that means we are getting stuffed with turkey crafts and activities at our house! This toddler turkey art activity is a great way to incorporate a fun seasonal book with art.

With my older girls at school during the day, I’ve been trying to focus on a lot of activities for Thea (2yrs) during the day. She loves to tinker with everything, but she has a bit of an aversion to different textures.

We’ve been getting our hands dirty and feeling gooey things (like spinach!) to help expose her to more sensory stimulation activities.

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How to Catch a Turkey

We paired our turkey art activity with How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace and Andy Elkerton.

How to Catch a Turkey is the seventh book in the “How to Catch” series that includes other books such as How to Catch an Elf, How to Catch the Tooth Fairy, How to Catch a Monster, and more!

Thanksgiving time is here again, but there’s a turkey on the run! Can you catch this tricky bird before the school play has begun?
How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace & Andy Elkerton

How to Catch a Turkey Toddler Art Activity

During the month of November, we will be working on a ton of toddler and preschool turkey crafts that are designed to develop fine motor skills, support color recognition, and are easy to setup and clean up. This toddler turkey art activity absolutely fits the bill!

Toddler Turkey Process Art Supplies

2 Pipe Cleaners
Tempera paint
Paper plate
Construction paper (We used 12-inch by 18-inch paper because it gave us more room for turkey walking!)

How to Create Toddler Turkey Art

Put the two ends of a pipe cleaner together and measure about an inch from the tips. Twist both pipe cleaners together at this point.

This will create a small hoop to hold while walking your turkey feet. Cut another pipe cleaner and twist this piece between the two toes to give it three toes total.

Toddlers walk turkey feet pretty roughly, so make sure it is twisted a bunch. We didn’t twist one of ours well enough and had a missing toe issue for a bit! Oops!

Add a small amount of tempera paint onto a paper plate. This will be your palette.

You can add multiple colors depending on your child. We stuck with one color because we are working on the color orange.

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Dip your “turkey feet” into the paint and walk them across the construction paper.

In the spirit of How to Catch a Turkey, we also ran our feet across the page! We made up a silly song about walking like a turkey and sang it as we made our art.

Looking for more books about Thanksgiving? Check these out!

Five Silly Turkeys by Salina Yoon
Llama Llama Gives Thanks by Anna Dewdney
God Gave Us Thankful Hearts by Lisa Town Bergren

PIN THIS TODDLER THANKSGIVING ACTIVITY FOR LATER!

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