Turkey Puppet

This little kids’ craft project is fairly simple. The “ol’ paper bag puppet” is all this really is. But it was still fun to make and my son had fun doing it… so isn’t that the point?!

How to make it: The obvious is the paper bag. I happen to have smaller sized craft bags and basket coffee filters leftover from other projects. If you used lunch-sized bags, you could use a paper plate for the main tail feathers.

I had my son color one coffee filter all brown with marker, then another with any colors he wanted. I used the brown one flat and cut the colored one in quarters (pie shaped). I cut a scrap of construction paper for a backing so the glue wouldn’t bleed through, and put it behind the filters. My son glued the heck out of the middle and stuck his colored filter quarters on the brown flat filter. Then I took apart an orange fabric flower and cut it into quarters and had him glue sections on as additional feathers.

There was so much glue in the middle of the “feathers” at this point, that the bag was just able to stick on. I cut out a beak and waddle and had him glue them on along with googly eyes. I bent pipe cleaners for feet and legs and adhered them and put a weight on it all until it was dry. That was it! My son decided to draw more feathers on the front of the turkey, and drew on his eyes before glueing the googly ones on. Obviously anything works… it’s a kids’ project! Enjoy and Happy Thanksgiving!