Thankful Bucket Turkey Craft for Thanksgiving
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To get everyone talking about what they are grateful for this Thanksgiving, why not make this Thankful Bucket Turkey Craft with the kiddos? Just a few simple craft supplies and a spare hour is all it takes!
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Thankful Bucket Turkey Craft
The full list of materials, tools, and instructions is found in the printable tutorial card at the end of this post. I highly recommend reading the blog post all the way through before starting this project to ensure that you have everything required and understand the steps and timings involved.
This Thanksgiving, give your kids a craft to help them think about all the things we are thankful for.
This thankful bucket turkey craft is simple enough for little ones to do with their parents or for older kids by themselves.
Plus they’ll be so proud of what they’ve created and will want to share the thankful bucket with everyone at the dinner table.
Materials & Tools Used in This Craft
The complete list of supplies, which may include basic crafting items that you already have can be found in the tutorial card at the end of this post. For your convenience, I’ve linked any notable materials and tools needed for this project to Amazon below.
- Jumbo Colored Craft Sticks
- Small Metal Bucket
- Googly Eyes
- Crinkled Paper Shred
- Natural Jute Twine
- Craft Felt – Yellow, Red, Orange
- Small Shipping Tag
- Brown Acrylic Craft Paint
- Permanent Black Marker
- Low Temp Glue Gun and Glue Sticks
Cheap Craft Supplies
If you’re in the USA, check out your local Dollar Store or Dollar Tree; and if you’re in the UK, the Poundshop, The Range, Wilko, and Baker Ross are great places to shop for cheap and inexpensive craft supplies. The rest of the world reading this – I don’t know every cheap store – sorry! But hunt the ones out in your location for crafting bargains!
More Thanksgiving Crafts
Looking for more crafts for Thanksgiving Here are some more for you to check out! Just right-click and open in a new tab to read next!
- Thanksgiving Native American Boy Craftivity & Creative Writing Project
- Do You Want To Build A Snowman? Thanksgiving Olaf Pilgrim Edition
- Free Printable Turkey Paper Craft
I’ve shared lots of great craft ideas on The Purple Pumpkin Blog over the years, in fact, there are 100+ crafts to make and do at home that you can try!
Craft Tips
- This craft can be made with a glass jar instead of bucket if you prefer.
- If you don’t have craft felt, you can use paper or craft foam to create the features for the turkey.
Things To Be Thankful For
Here are the prompts we used on the thankful sticks that go into the turkey bucket, but you can add your own if you like.
- Someone I love
- My favorite thing to do
- Thing that makes me happy
- Something outside
- Someone who is kind
- My best friend
- My favorite animal
- Something fun
- Something I am good at
- A thing I use everyday
- My favorite food
- My favorite place
- Something beautiful
- Something inside
- Greatest gift received
How Do I Make Thankful Bucket Turkey?
Just check out the how-to card below with full materials, tools, and instructions. Any demonstration photos do not print out to save your ink.
Thankful Bucket Turkey Craft
Materials
- Brown Acrylic Craft Paint
- Small Metal Bucket
- Craft Felt – Yellow Red, Orange
- Googly Eyes
- Small Luggage Tag
- Natural Jute Twine
- Brown Shredded Crinkled Paper
- Jumbo Colored Craft Sticks
Instructions
- Paint the outside of the metal bucket with brown acrylic craft paint. Set aside to dry and apply a second coat, if necessary.
- Cut out a triangle beak shape from yellow craft felt, a wiggly waddle shape from red craft felt, and two turkey feet shapes from orange craft felt. Attach two googly eyes and felt features to the turkey bucket with a glue gun. If you don’t have craft felt, use colored paper or sheets of craft foam.
- Write “I am THANKFUL for…” on a small shipping tag with a black marker. Tie tag onto the handle of the turkey bucket with a 10” length of natural jute twine and finish with a bow. Fill the bucket with shredded crinkled paper.
- Write thankful questions onto 15 colored jumbo craft sticks. Write with a pencil first before going over with a permanent black marker. Use the thankful prompts listed in the photo or make up your own based upon what is important to your family.
- Place all 15 colored jumbo craft sticks in the thankful turkey bucket using the crinkled paper shred to hold them in place. They become the turkey feathers!