![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 1 drawing hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/1-hand-turkey.jpg)
Trace around your child's hand. (Bonus: If you save one from each year, you'll get to see how your kids grow!) The fingers are the fancy tail feathers, and the thumb is the head. I like to state the obvious.
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 2 color in hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/2-color-turkey.jpg)
Let your child loose coloring it in. Don't worry if it turns out like this — I've got alternate plans up my sleeve.
I'm purposely not searching around on Pinterest or other blogs for perfect looking Thanksgiving crafts, because this is supposed to be a holiday of gratitude for what you've got, not shame for what you don't. So make this craft as (un)complicated as you want it to be — decorate with stickers, markers, paints, crayons, glitter, string, whatever you or your kidlet want. Theoretically, they could color each finger/feather a different color, but as you can see, not all four-year-olds are into realism or following directions or, in fact, even waiting for directions before forging ahead, heaven love 'em.
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 3 cap marker hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/3-cap-marker.jpg)
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 4 cut out hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/4-cut-out.jpg)
Plan B commences! Cut out the hand turkey and glue it to a contrastingly colorful sheet of paper. For hand-eye practice, your kid can do the cutting. Tip: Kids love gluing. A glue stick makes it less obnoxious for you.
Redraw the eye, beak, giblet (approximate that sucker), side wing, and turkey feet.
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 5 write happy hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/5-happy.jpg)
I offered to write "Happy Thanksgiving" on our new sign, but Mikko wanted to do it himself. Here is "Happy."
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 6 copy words hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/6-copy.jpg)
(Yes, we changed into jammies halfway through.)
"Thanksgiving" had to go on another sheet. Man, that word is long! He started out writing it himself with me dictating the letters, but then I got the brainstorm to write it out so he could copy it. He liked that even better!
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 7 writing thanksgiving hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/7-thanksgiving.jpg)
Yup, that says "Thanksgiving." Don't even doubt it.
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 8 tape hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/8-tape.jpg)
Of course we (he) had to tape our beautiful new Turkey Day signs to the door so everyone could enjoy the spirit of the holiday.
![Photo Credit: Hobo Mama 9 sign hanging on door hand turkey — thanksgiving holidays](http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/ee159/lintpicker/9-sign.jpg)
I'd say that's suitably festive!
Have you do any turkey crafts this year? What are your Thanksgiving plans? Am I invited?
1 Assuming you're in the U.S., celebrate Thanksgiving, have a suitably aged kid, and/or want to. Hey, it's easy!↩
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