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Paper Bag Turkey
Thanksgiving Crafts for Kids
This cute paper bag turkey craft that is made out of a
paper lunch bag. It
is an easy craft for
kids, including preschool children who will enjoy painting the stripes
on the
turkey. All that is
needed is two brown
paper lunch bags. This
turkey craft will
make a cute Thanksgiving day centerpiece, or it can be used as goodie
bag. The body of
the turkey can be filled with
candy or small toys to keep the young ones amused at the Thanksgiving
day
table.
Things Needed:
- Two lunch size paper bags
- Scissors
- Stapler
- Tape
- Tissue paper or crumpled newspaper
- Black marker or crayon
- Paints and paintbrush
- Begin
the paper bag turkey by folding the bottom part of the bag up. Then, turn the bag over.
 
- Next,
begin to make accordion folds (about ¾ of an inch wide or
so) up the rest of the bag, as shown.
You can trim off any excess at the top
with scissors.
 
- Unfold
the bag, and make a vertical cut with the scissors from the top of the
bag, in the center, down about 3 inches.
- Paint
each stripe of the accordion folds a different autumn color (such as
red, orange, yellow, brown, green).
Make sure the paint the back of the bag
too. Allow this to
dry.
 
- Stuff
the bottom of the bag with a bit of tissue paper or crumpled newspaper. Or, fill it with small
toys or goodies. Staple
the bottom of the bag with two staples on each side.
- Bring
the top edges of the bag together upon themselves, and tape this
together.
 
- Shape
the turkey tail as shown. Taping
the top edges together forms a triangle shape.
Bring this out pointing forward, and then
make the folds as appropriate to fan out the tail.
- The
next step is to draw a turkey head on another paper lunch bag, and cut
out the shape. By
cutting through the entire lunch bag you will have two identical shapes.
- Glue
the two sides of the head together, but first sandwich in a little
gizzard (either cut from red paper or colored from the lunch bag paper). Also allow two tabs to
hang free near the base of the neck, for gluing on to the body. Allow
to dry.
 
- Glue
on the head to the body by attaching the two tabs to the base of the
lunch bag turkey body.
 
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