Paper is the cheapest craft supply a classroom owns, and a turkey is the most forgiving shape to make from it: a fan becomes a tail, a folded strip becomes a rosette, a cut square becomes a pinwheel. This pack puts thirteen different paper turkey designs in one free PDF — chains, fans, a pinwheel, a windmill, a spinner, a rosette, an accordion fold and a paper doll chain — so a teacher can hand out a different one every day of Thanksgiving week without hunting for a new template each time. Every page is a black-and-white cut-out template: print it, colour it, cut along the dashed lines, fold and glue. No special supplies beyond paper, scissors and glue.
What’s Included
In this collection, we publish 13 turkey paper crafts and images.
How to print and make your turkey paper crafts
- Download the free PDF (A4 or US Letter — both files contain the same 13 pages).
- Print at 100% scale, black-and-white, on plain paper, construction paper or light card. Card is better for the pinwheel, windmill and spinner, which need to hold their shape.
- Colour the pieces in with crayons, markers or paint.
- Cut along the dashed lines, fold on the dotted lines, and glue where the glue icons show.
- Fold the fan pages (tk-25, tk-79) back and forth on the fold lines; fold the paper doll chain (tk-141) before cutting so the four turkeys stay linked; push a split pin through the centre dot of the pinwheel (tk-110), spinner (tk-183) and windmill (tk-193) so they spin.
Ages and difficulty
Ages 3–8 (preschoolers to early elementary). Paper chains, fans and the paper doll chain suit ages 3–5; the rosette, accordion fold and pinwheel suit ages 5–8. Difficulty: Easy to Medium. Chains, fans and the doll chain are Easy. Origami (tk-14), the pinwheel (tk-110), the windmill (tk-193) and the accordion fold (tk-157) are Medium — folding and gluing need an adult’s help for under-6s. The designs work on plain paper or construction paper, and on light card for the pieces that need to hold their shape. For a sturdier display, glue the finished turkey onto a paper plate.
More turkey printables
- Turkey Crafts for Kids — the parent hub with more turkey templates.
- Turkey Handprint Craft — 9 free handprint turkey printables for kids.
- Turkey Games for Kids — 7 free printable turkey games for kids.
- Pilgrim Crafts for Kids
- Handprint Thankful Tree Craft
- Turkey Pumpkin Craft
