Who doesn’t love playing with puppets? Puppet crafts are so much fun for children to make and to play with! I love when we are able to make a scene on a paper plate for stick puppet to explore. Make this cute turkey stick puppet craft with your little one and enjoy watching your puppet explore the straw and fall leaves in this scene. This interactive craft is tons of fun and lends itself well to imaginative play.
Supplies Needed:
- paper plate
- jumbo craft sticks (We used the 6″x3/4″ craft sticks)
- turkey craft template
- crayons/markers
- scissors
- glue stick
- box cutter
How To:
Print off the turkey scene stick puppet craft template (free PDF download). Color the turkey, rolled up straw bales, haystack, and fall leaves. After coloring, cut out your pictures. I try to keep things simple by cutting a border around the pictures rather than exactly along the lines. Once you glue them onto a white paper plate, you really can’t see the white borders around the pictures anyway.
Have an adult use a box cutter to cut a slit along the smooth center of the plate. The slit in the example is a little less than halfway up the plate. Before slicing, make sure that the craft stick will be able to stick up through the proposed slit and move around. The slit should go all the way along the smooth part of the plate, stopping before both ridged outer edges.
Now that you have colored all of your pictures, glue them onto your plate. Check to make sure that all of the pictures are glued down tight so that your turkey stick puppet doesn’t get stuck under any edges that may be sticking up.
Glue your turkey to end of a craft stick and let’s play! Slip your puppet through the slit and move your puppet around so that your turkey can play in the straw.
More Turkey Fun!
-Check out my lists of Turkey Stories and Thanksgiving Books to read with your preschooler!
–Turkey Paper Bag Puppet: turn a paper lunch bag into a puppet!
–Toilet Paper Roll Turkey: make a cute turkey out of a toilet paper roll, paper plate, and feathers.
TURKEY SCENE STICK PUPPET CRAFT TEMPLATE:
