Thanksgiving Crafts: Another Paper Bag Turkey

If you’ve been following along at home, you know I’ve already posted about how to make a paper bag turkey. BUT! This is another way to make a paper bag turkey! You never can have too many you know. You could even start a collection of paper bag turkeys. Okay, maybe not. But this paper bag turkey was too cute not to share.

What You Need to Make THIS Paper Bag Turkey:

• Small paper bag
• Newspaper
• Scissors
• Stapler
• White paper plate (the cheap kind work best)
• Red and orange construction paper
• Googly eyes (optional)
• Markers
• Chenille stem (a.k.a. pipe cleaner)

How to Make THIS Paper Bag Turkey:

1. Crumple up a piece of newspaper and put it in the bottom of the small paper bag.

2. Twist the paper bag around the newspaper and secure it with the chenille stem to create the turkey’s neck.

3. Crumple up another piece of newspaper and put it in the remaining half of the paper bag.

4. Staple the paper bag shut so the newspaper doesn’t fall out.

5. Glue on the googly eyes or use markers to draw eyes on the head of the turkey. This is the end of the bag not stapled.

6. Cut a beak and two legs from red and/or orange construction paper and glue them to the paper bag turkey.

7. Cut the paper plate in half and discard one half.

8. Cut scalloped edges around the remaining piece of the paper plate to look like turkey feathers.

9. Use markers to color the paper plate to look like turkey feathers.

10. Staple the paper plate to the back of the paper bag so the colored feathers can be seen when looking at the front of the paper bag turkey.

For more turkey crafts, check out this turkey hat, handprint turkey, and how to make turkey plates.

For more Thanksgiving ideas, check out these Thanksgiving crafts and Thanksgiving recipes!