I love holiday crafts, especially when I don’t have to buy anything new for them. I have plenty of wine corks and pipe cleaners, so a wine cork turkey came to mind as an easy thanksgiving craft. My kids enjoyed making them, too. I helped put their pipe cleaners in but they did the rest and loved the result. 🙂
How to Make a Wine Cork Turkey as an Easy Thanksgiving Craft
Required Material:
- One wine cork
- Red, yellow, brown, and orange pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes
- Orange and red paper (you can use scraps)
- Glue
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How to Make It:
- 1: Twist the pipe cleaners around your pinky finger, a pencil, or another thin object. Then slide the pipe cleaners off without straightening them, making sure to keep the curls.
- 2: Stick the pointy metal edges of the pipe cleaners into the cork, leaving space for all four colors to go around. The pipe cleaners mimic feathers, so make sure they go around the back.
- 3: Glue on the googly eyes. If you don’t have googly eyes, you can make eyes out of paper and glues those on instead.
- 4: Cut a beak from orange paper and a gobbler from red paper. I ran out of red paper so I just found some red in a magazine and cut that into a gobbler.
- 5: Glue on the beak and gobbler, and you have your turkey. 🙂
Other Easy Fall Crafts
If you love making fall crafts or doing sensory activities, check out these posts:
- Fall Crafts for Kids – Handprint Leaves
- 4 Simple Fall Handprint Crafts for Kids
- Foil Printed Fall Art For Kids
- Easy Fall Sensory Bin With Dyed Rice
Recap: Easy Thanksgiving Craft – Wine Cork Turkey with Pipe Cleaners
Now that you have your easy Thanksgiving craft planned, don’t forget about Thanksgiving dinner! Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays, and I’m excited about all parts of it.
What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving? Leave a comment and let us know. 🙂
