Your children will have fun designing a turkey disguise for the turkey on the template in this printable set. I chose to make my turkey a unicorn. Your children will have fun using a STEAM planning document and our list of ideas to come up with their own turkey disguises. It totally doesn’t have to be a unicorn.
Building Background
Below you will find fun turkey-themed books. It would be fun to read one of them to your children before starting this activity.
How to Catch a Turkey shares the story of a turkey that get loose during the Thanksgiving play.
Once a turkey finds that he is for dinner, he comes up with various disguises to hide himself in the story Turkey Trouble.
Turkey Disguise Project
Getting Ready
Downloading the Project Pages
You will need to download a copy of the STEAM Turkey Disguise Project. It includes the disguise planning document, the turkey template, and a disguise idea chart. All of the pages in the set were designed to be printed on a black-and-white printer.
Gathering Decorating Supplies
Here are some supplies you will want to put out for your disguise designers:
- Crayons
- Markers
- Scissors
- Fabric Scraps
- Construction Paper or Colored Cardstock
- Buttons
- Glue
- Ribbon
- Bits of Nature Gathered from Outdoors (Twigs or Leaves)
Planning The Disguise
Before your children create their disguise, they will need to plan it. I worked on the unicorn design several times before picking up a pair of scissors. The planning document in the set has ample space to draw a costume or disguise.
Creating the Disguise
Your children may create a costume that covers some or all of the turkey. It is up to you or them to decide how much of the turkey they want to cover. You can also decide just what supplies you want them to use.
If your children decide not to cover all of their turkeys, they will need to color the parts of the turkey that will be shown.
When they are ready, they can start constructing the turkey’s disguise.
How I Made the Unicorn
The unicorn I created was made of three pieces of white cardstock. It has a head, horn, and body section. Once they were cut out, each piece was outlined with a gold or silver marker.
The head was made big so it would cover the turkey’s head and some of its feathers. The nostrils of the unicorn are the eyeholes for the turkey. I wanted his eyes to show through from the back.
The mane and the tail were created using a variety of curled ribbons. The ribbon was glued to the back of the unicorn.
After coloring the turkey, I dressed him in his disguise. Your children don’t have to color the turkey if they don’t want to.
Here are some more turkey disguise ideas:
Astronaut in Outer Space
If you like these turkey crafts here are some more you will like.
Here is another STEM/STEAM activity to explore:
Thanksgiving STEM Activity- Create a Turkey Hideway
It was fun coming across your post tonight. I’m an elementary teacher and I had made disguising a turkey as a home project this week. The kiddos had two home days to make the disguise and then return it to school to continue using it on a writing project. The kiddos came back with some amazing disguises and they had a blast. I read the book Turkey Trouble to them as a springboard for the project. It didn’t even dawn on me that it would be a STEAM project. I can’t wait for the finished product. They’ll be our hall decorations for our upcoming conferences.
I would love to see how they turn out! Please stop by my Facebook page and share pictures of them with me.