This cute twist on the handprint turkey uses handprints from not just your child, but you too! Mom, Dad and the little one are in this cute paper project. I made this several years ago and thought it was high time I shared it here.
Family Handprint Turkey
Author: Amanda Formaro
Supplies
- construction paper in red, yellow, orange and brown
- 2 medium googly eyes
- white craft or school glue
Directions
- Have mom (and dad) place their hand on a piece of red construction paper. Trace around their hand and cut out.
- Note: If doing this as a class project, send home a note to parents to trace their hand on white paper and send back to school with their child. When the papers are returned, lay a piece of red construction paper under the white paper and use a pen or pencil to trace the hand, the indents from the pen will show where to cut on the red paper. Alternatively, you can send home a sheet of red construction paper with each child.
- Trace the hands of each child in the family onto different colors of construction paper. Cut out.
- Starting with the largest hands, layer smallest on top of largest, glue together.
- Cut out a plump circle for the body and an oval for the head from brown construction paper. Glue on top of the smallest hand.
- Cut out a small red heart for the gobbler and orange triangle for the beak, glue in place. Glue on wiggle eyes.
- Print out the phrases below using Notepad, Word, Wordpad or similar word processing program, changing the name of the children and year if needed:
- To Mommy & Daddy with Love
- from TJ & Dominic on Thanksgiving 2011
- We will never be this size again
- keep this picture to remember when
- Cut out poems, glue first one to the top of the green construction paper and the second one to the bottom, or just use the bottom poem if you like.
Amanda Formaro
Amanda Formaro is the crafty, entrepreneurial mother of four children. She loves to bake, cook, make kid's crafts and create decorative items for her home. She is a crafting expert and guru in the kitchen and has appeared online and in print publications many times over the years. She is also the editor for the Home & Garden channel at Craft Gossip and owner of FunFamilyCrafts.com.
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I think my son is finally old enough to like doing some crafts, this would be fun to do with him this year. Thanks Amanda.
I really want to do this this year before my son’s hands are bigger than mine!
I. love. this. I’ve seen lots of handprint turkeys and other variations over the years, but never this one…what a great keepsake! We just have one child, so we could do his hand plus ours…pinning this! Would you share it here?
http://oneartmama.blogspot.com/2011/11/our-home-for-holidays-party.html
awww I love this!! so sweet!