Wood Slice Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is such a cozy time of year, and what better way to spruce up your home decor than with a Wood Slice Turkey Craft? This delightful craft is the perfect way to add a touch of whimsy to your Thanksgiving table or mantle. Gather some wood slices, paint in rich autumn colors, and glue together to create a charming turkey. Add googly eyes and a bright red wattle to bring your turkey to life! Get the whole family involved in this fun and festive project, and watch as your home transforms into a warm and welcoming space for the holiday season. Cheers to crafting and creating special memories together this Thanksgiving!
Here’s what you need to make one:
- Wood Slices – We used wood slice ornaments from Hobby Lobby (wood craft aisle, not the holiday aisle).
- Feathers – you can find a bag at the craft store
- Googly eyes
- Red and orange felt
- Brown pipe cleaners
- Hot glue gun, or use wood glue
- 0.75 inch or 1 inch wood cubes – one for each turkey
These are the wood slices we used. They are ornaments, but we cut off the strings for this project.
Cut out a beak and a wattle out of felt. Grab some googly eyes and a wooden cube (or something similar) to help the turkey stand up.
Glue on the beak, wattle, and googly eyes. Glue the wood cube on the back of the wood slice.
Then bend some brown pipe cleaners to make feet. Each foot requires about 1/2 of a pipe cleaner.
Use hot glue to attach feathers to the back of the wood slice. Glue them on one at a time, and it really doesn’t take much glue! Then glue on the feet.
Turn your turkey into a place card holder or photo holder!
If you want to, you can make these wood slice turkeys into place card holders or photo holders. Twist some floral wire into a couple of overlapping circles, as shown. Then you can slide an index card or a photo in between the circles.
Glue the wire to the back of the wood slice turkey.
These wood slice turkeys make ADORABLE place card holders for Thanksgiving! Make one for each member of the family. They really don’t take long to make!
Or just use them to display an encouraging reminder of the Thanksgiving season.
If you don’t have feathers, another way to make these fun turkeys is to use colored craft sticks. So cute!