Painted Pine Cone Turkey Craft for Kids

November 17, 2025
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You will love making an adorable pinecone turkey craft to decorate your home in the fall. This pinecone turkey craft for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. This pine cone turkey crafts only uses a few simple materials you probably already have on hand to make your November crafts for kids!

You will love making an adorable pinecone turkey craft to decorate your home in the fall. This pinecone turkey craft for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. This pine cone turkey crafts only uses a few simple materials you probably already have on hand to make your November crafts for kids! 

pinecone turkey craft

We love using pine cones for our winter and Christmas crafts, but my daughter was begging to make Thanksgiving craft ideas this week. I wasn’t sure what to do that we hadn’t already done, but then I saw my pile of pine cones in the closet waiting for me to use. Hey, that looks like a turkey body! So off to crafting a pine cone turkey we went. This super cute and EASY pine cone turkey is the perfect  November craft ideas for kids.

We have lots more thanksgiving activities to choose from including solo cup turkey craft, free turkey dot marker printable, free thanksgiving worksheets, free Thanksgiving story for kids printable, and thanksgiving math activities for preschoolers.

November Crafts for Kids

pinecone turkey craft for kids

We used some easy craft supplies that you may have in your house already.

  • Pine Cone
  • Paint (Yellow, Red & Orange)
  • Q-Tip
  • Felt (Tan, Orange & Red)
  • Hot Glue
  • Googly Eyes
Thanksgiving pine cone crafts

pine cone turkey crafts

The pine cone makes a perfect body shape of a turkey, but we needed the feathers to be colored. We chose paint. We put the paint on a paper plate and used q-tips to fill in the pine cone ‘leaves’ with color. You could use a paint brush too, but the q-tip was perfect for getting into the little crevices of the pine cone.

Turkey Crafts for Kids

how to make pine cone turkeys

While the paint is drying, you can cut the felt for this pine cone turkey crafts for preschoolers. We used this for the face, beak and the wattle (the dangly red thing).

We glued them on with hot glue. White glue might work, but I could see the felt sliding off the pine cone before the glue dried.

You will love making an adorable Pine Cone Turkey to decorate your home in the fall. This Thanksgiving craft for kids is perfect for toddler, preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, and first grade students. This pinecone turkey craft only uses a few simple materials you probably already have on hand to make your November crafts for kids! You will probably want to make a whole flock of turkey crafts.

pine cone turkey

We glued on the googly eyes next. How cute, right? And so easy.

These would be super cute as name cards next to each place setting on Thanksgiving! Or to set in between the serving trays of food. Did anyone else just get really hungry??

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Beth Gorden is the creative multi-tasking creator of 123 Homeschool 4 Me. As a busy homeschooling mother of six, she strives to create hands-on learning activities and worksheets that kids will love to make learning FUN! With over 20 years educating children, she has created over 1 million pages of printables to help teach kids alphabet, math, science, English grammar, history, and so much more! Beth is also the creator of 2 additional sites with even more educational activities and FREE printables - www.kindergartenworksheetsandgames.com and www.preschoolplayandlearn.com. Beth studied at the University of Northwestern where she got a double major to make her effective at teaching children while making education FUN!

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