Our room mom for our Thanksgiving Day celebration came up with this great craft to make turkeys! Our mom purchased styro-foam balls (cut into halves). In small groups a few days before our party, we had each student paint theirs brown because it would need several coats of acrylic paint. We let them dry over night and made sure most of the area was covered with brown.
The day of the party, each child was given different colored golf tees to hammer into their styro-foam “bodies.” We used plastic mallets and hammers from our pretend dramatic play center.
The kids really had a blast hammering these into their turkeys and it worked our fine motor skills and visual perception. Some of the students wanted to add faces with paper and squiggly eyes. I just love how the different colored tees made the turkey look like he had really “colorful” feathers.
Want to make your own Tee Turkey?
Supplies: Styro-foam balls (halved), brown acrylic paint, paintbrushes, golf tees of different colors, hammer or mallet, and squiggly eyes ,brown construction paper, and tacky glue are optional.
Directions: Apply at least two coats of brown acrylic to each halved styro-foam ball with the paintbrush. Let dry over night. Hammer in golf tees around brown base. Add a face with the squiggly eyes and brown construction paper.
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