This Easy Thanksgiving craft is perfect for kids of all ages. Coffee filters and clothespins will easily transform into the cutest Thanksgiving Turkeys ever! Grab your children or host a play date this month to get to crafting for these easy and fun Thanksgiving craft! Best of all, this coffee filter Thanksgiving craft is super cheap to gather and perfect for saving for future year’s decor! This little turkey also doubles as an adorable Thanksgiving place cards for Thanksgiving dinner. It is such a great way for young kids to be included in prepping for Thanksgiving Day and feel included, and to add a cute Turkey craft as Thanksgiving decorations for your table.

Thanksgiving Turkey Coffee Filter Craft

How Long Does It Take to Make a Coffee Filter Turkey?

Create these Tie Dye Turkeys in about 30 minutes with coloring and cutting help from the kiddos! Depending on the ages of your children, you could cut the time down to create the coffee filter turkeys by prepping a lot of the steps before hand. Your children will love this coffee filter turkey craft for Thanksgiving and great practice for fine motor skills. It is one of the most perfect Thanksgiving crafts for kids of all ages and everyone, even adults, will love making these cute turkeys.

Coffee Filter Thanksgiving Turkey Craft Supplies:

Coffee Filters
Washable Markers
Wooden Clothespins
Craft Foam, Red and Yellow
Googly Eyes
Craft Paint - Brown - use craft paint not washable paint for better outcome / look.
Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Scissors
Paintbrush
Spray Mister filled with water
Large Plastic Ziplock Bag
Cardboard Scrap

For younger kids having all of the art project supplies laid out in a craft tray will save time on the day of the craft. A washable work surface is always a good idea or lay out a table cloth or newspaper. This is an affordable coffee filter crafts idea and you can get most / all of these supplies at the dollar store to save money!

How Do You Dye Coffee Filters to Look Like a Turkey?

The short answer is markers and a spray mister with water. With any kind of coffee filter craft, you want to use colors that are similar so that they blend well. For coffee filter Thanksgiving turkey craft, you will want to use yellow, orange, brown and red. Spraying water on these colors on top of the white coffee filters makes awesome look when the dry turkey feathers are complete.

Turkey Coffee Filter Craft Instructions:

1. Flatten round white coffee filters and apply several colors of washable markers in a variety of patterns. Remember to use colors that are next to each other on the color wheel, such as red, orange and yellow, so that the colors blend harmoniously on the turkey's body.

2. Place colored coffee filter on craft mat or zipper bag and spray lightly with water to watch the magic! Set aside to dry.

3. Clip the clothespins on a scrap of cardboard and paint all sides with brown craft paint and paintbrush. Set aside to dry.

4. Attach wiggle eyes using a glue gun with fine tip applicator.

5. Cut a triangle beak from yellow craft foam and a squiggly waddle from red craft foam with scissors. Attach under wiggle eyes using a glue gun with fine tip applicator.

6. Fold dry coffee filters in half and crinkle slightly to fluff. Insert coffee filter into top clip of clothespin.

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Thanksgiving is such a fun holiday and time of year to gather with family and friends and enjoy time with loved ones. I hope this holiday season is full of love and laughter. Enjoy your Thanksgiving traditions!