A pinecone turkey is not a paper craft, and this pack does not pretend it is. The pinecone itself comes from outside — a walk, a garden, a craft box — and what this free PDF gives you is everything else: feather, face, wing and foot templates to colour, cut out and glue onto a real pinecone, plus pattern pages for the twigs, pine needles, corn husks, wheat and sunflowers that turn one pinecone into a whole Thanksgiving table. Ten pages, one download, and the only thing you still need to find is the pinecone.
You will need a real pinecone for the pinecone designs (tk-45, tk-198), plus paint and glue. The PDF gives you the paper parts — the pinecone comes from outside.
What’s Included
In this collection, we publish 10 turkey pinecone crafts and images.
How to print and make your turkey pinecone craft
- Download the free PDF (A4 or US Letter — both files contain the same 10 pages).
- Print at 100% scale, black-and-white, on plain paper or light card. Card is better for the feather and face pieces, which are glued onto a curved pinecone.
- Colour the pieces in with crayons, markers or paint.
- Cut along the dashed lines.
- Gather the natural materials: a real pinecone for tk-45 and tk-198; real twigs for tk-154; real pine needles for tk-155. Paint the pinecone brown first if you like, and let it dry.
- Glue the paper parts onto the pinecone with craft glue (an adult should do hot glue). For tk-154, glue the twigs into the fan shape on the guide; for tk-155, glue pine needles into the fan segments. The corn-husk, wheat, sunflower and cornucopia pages are paper-only centrepieces and need no pinecone.
Ages and difficulty
These turkey pinecone craft templates suit ages 3–10, and the difficulty is Easy. The paper work is cut-and-glue; the craft skill is in handling the real pinecone, twigs and needles, which needs an adult’s help (hot glue, sharp twig ends). The toddler and preschooler designs (tk-45, tk-198 — glue pre-cut parts onto a pinecone) suit ages 3–5 with an adult doing the cutting, while the twig, pine-needle, corn-husk and wheat designs suit ages 5–10.
