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Home » crafts for kids » fall crafts for kids » Painted Rock Turkeys for Kids to Make for Thanksgiving

Painted Rock Turkeys for Kids to Make for Thanksgiving

Last updated on January 11, 2017

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Ok!  One more quick and easy little turkey craft for you today.  Make one of these painted rock turkeys to serve as a paperweight, or make a whole bunch, and use them as place settings at your Thanksgiving dinner table!

Thanksgiving is coming up this weekend here in Canada so the hooligans and I have been busy making lots of different turkey crafts over the past couple of weeks.

This one was totally unplanned, and the idea came to me the other day when two of the older girls were painting some rocks in the backyard.

You may already know how much we love crafting and playing with stones.  We always have a stash of these round, smooth rocks on hand here because we can use the in so many ways. Remember the gorgeous stone paperweights we made last year?  The girls were making more of those on this particular day.

Painted Turkey Rocks for Thanksgiving - Happy Hooligans

I, on the other hand, had Thanksgiving on the brain, and so I decided to turn my stone into what else…  a turkey.

To make your painted rock turkeys, you’ll need:

  • smooth, clean rocks
  • paintbrush
  • brown paint
  • glue
  • googly eyes
  • yellow beak (craft foam or card stock)
  • red tissue paper

While the girls were painting their rocks in vibrant colours, I painted mine a reddish brown.

Here’s a little peek at what the girls were painting:

painting rocks

My painted rock dried quickly in the sun, and then I added some googly eyes and a beak that I’d cut out of a small piece of craft foam.

Some crumpled red tissue paper made a great wattle and comb.

And I finished by gluing a few craft feathers to the back of the stone.

Painted rock turkey decoration

Gobble, gobble!

Isn’t he cute?

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

Looking for more Thanksgiving crafts that you can do along-side the kids, mom?  Check out these Thanksgiving colouring pages for grownups!

More thanksgiving crafts for kids:

Toilet Roll Turkeys

Footprint Turkeys (bubble painting process)

Paper Plate Turkeys

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Jackie Currie

Jackie is a mom, wife, home daycare provider, and the creative spirit behind Happy Hooligans. She specializes in kids’ crafts and activities, easy recipes, and parenting. She began blogging in 2011, and today, Happy Hooligans inspires more than 2 million parents, caregivers and Early Years Professionals all over the globe.

 

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  1. Gina (aka East Coast Mommy)

    October 7, 2015 at 6:22 am

    Seriously cute!

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