Turkey Watercolor Painting for Thanksgiving
Turkeys are such a fun Thanksgiving theme. We love having different and new ideas to do with them. The Turkey watercolor painting is done with cookie cutters to have a fun collage of painted turkeys for Thanksgiving.
You have watch kids have a fun time painting turkeys are the mix of different skills to hold the cookie cutter and use a paint brush to inside the cookie cutter.
Kids can be creative with their colors and where they paint their turkeys.
The Turkey Watercolor Painting is a great addition to the Thanksgiving crafts and the cookie cutter crafts on the site.
What is Cookie Cutter Painting?
Painting with a cookie cutter is an easy craft for kids to do. This gives a template, and the results are loads of fun.
Turkey Watercolor Painting with Cookie Cutters
Turkey painting is painting inside turkey cookie cutters with watercolor paints. A fun painting and fine motor activity for kids. And this is great for Thanksgiving.
Turkey Book to Read with this Turkey Painting
The Turkey Watercolor Painting goes great with the book There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey!. You can read the book and make a turkey! You can have fun and see what else the old lady swallows.
What we used to make the Turkey Watercolor Painting
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- watercolors
- watercolor paper – this is great for painting projects
- large paint brush
- turkey cookie cutters
How we made the Turkey Painting
You can see the steps below that we used to make the turkey painting. Before starting you might want to check how flat your turkey cookie cutters lay. It helps with the painting.
Step 1: Place the Turkey Cookie Cutter on the Watercolor Paper
You are going to place the turkey cookie cutter on the watercolor paper. It won’t matter where you place the cookie cutter. It just needs to be on the paper.
Step 2: Hold the Turkey Cookie Cutter and Paint Inside
You are going to hold the cookie cutter on the outside or the top. It depends on the skill level to which they will do. Then you pick a color and use a large paint brush tp paint inside the cookie cutter.
You are going to want to try and get all the little corners of the cookie cutter. And this can be a challenge.
Step 3: Look the the Turkey on the Paper
Next you are going to lift off the cookie cutter and look at see it on the paper. You can see it is the shape of the cookie cutter. And it is not perfect that is okay. That makes it different. You can have older kids touch up the painting.
Step 4: Keep Painting Turkeys
Finally keep painting turkeys. We uses two cookie cutters for this painting. And you can be as creative as you want with them. And the cookie cutters can overlap a little bit.
You can see that you can add more colors as you do. There are lots of different brown colors but if kids paint other colors that is okay. We recently saw a wild turkey that had some white color on it. It was fun for kids to see.
Let kids be creative with this turkey. If the turkey is upside down that is okay. They are having fun painting and that is what matters.
Final look at our Turkey Painting
More Turkey Activities for Kids
The Washi Tape Turkey is tons of fun to make and looks really neat when it is done. It is also great for fine motor and kids don’t even know it.
The No-Prep Turkey Week Packs are great for working on disguising a turkey and turkey themed activities for prek, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, third grade, and fourth grade.
Turkey Feather Shape Tracing has 5 fun shapes for kids to trace and color for the turkey’s feathers.
Turkey Color Pack is a great color pack that has matching puzzles, word puzzles, color word worksheets, an easy reader book, color clip cards, turkey color feather matching, and more!
Turkey Counting Mats has numbers 1 to 20 with 4 different types of mats to use with kids. You have turkey feathers to count.
Check out all the fun Thanks Activities & Printables on 3 Dinosaurs.
Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com