It is pretty hard not to notice that this week is Thanksgiving. Therefore, it seemed obvious that a Turkey Toilet Roll Holder Craft would be a good idea. Now we don’t do Thanks Giving in the UK but we do traditionally eat Turkeys on Christmas day too I thought it would be fitting to make a turkey with the children.
I do not know who first had this idea but I have seen it all over the internet and have some pinned on my Christmas Pinterest board. Crafts that involves holding memories of my children being small are really precious as they grow so quickly. In this case the size of their hands. This is a really sweet thing to do with them because if you put them away and make new ones the following year they can track how much they have grown!
How to Make the Turkey Toilet Roll Holder Craft
The Turkey toilet roll holder craft is as simple as it looks. This makes it ideal for young children but also fun for older ones. First simply get them to take an empty toilet roll holder and paint in brown. Next draw around their hands whilst the paint is drying. Then we cut the hand out on top of lots of layers of brown paper resulting in lots of brown hand shapes.
Once we had the brown hands we placed them on top of one another like a fan and then secured them together. This was then the tail and attached to the back of the painted toilet roll holder. We used some big googly eyes and some more of the brown paper for a beak. Finally we used some red tissue paper for its head hair and then another bit for the turkey’s wattle.
Other Toilet Roll Holder Crafts
This kind of craft was inspired by RedTedArt where you can find lots more Toilet Roll Holder Crafts
awwwww thank you so much for the mention 🙂
i have not done a bear hunt yet but we do have the book and maybe next year we will read it agian and re-enact it with some cuddly bears
the turkey hands craft is really good – it will be wonderful to look back on and remember that once those ha ds were that small
xxx
The turkey hands are a really good idea and nice little keepsake too. We don’t have the bear hunt book but it does sound really good with a nice little message in it.
Yay !! More toilet roll holder crafts – if only I could interest my boisterous toddler in making things instead of chucking them around I’d love to do this with him. It looks very cute.
Love Bear Hunt – and Michael Rosen once commented on a post a wrote about him – he’s ever so friendly you know :o)
Awww we love that book! So sweet. Love the rhythm to it all. And your turkey is just adorable.
Bear hunt is one of our favourite books, we love it!
Your turkey is fab too – perfect for thanksgiving.
I love the bear hunt, is a favourite of all my three.
Jane
Ah Ozzys favourite book – he can read me the whole thing! Loving that turkey *gobble gobble*
such a great book! I have a odd relationship with turkeys, my family ancestors are the ones that brought them to the UK originally…but I’m a vegetarian haha! x
He he what a cool Turkey, we met one at the farm on my daughter’s school trip, I bet mine would enjoy this!
“We’re going on a bear hunt” is one of our favourites!!
Also, loving the turkey 🙂 xx
Love the bear hunt, a favourite when mine were young, thank you for the lovely mention, I’m so touched that the book reminds you of Country Kids and I do agree no one tells the Gruffalo better than Mummy Mishaps!