Paper Plate Turkey Hats Craft

We made these fun paper plate turkey hats craft to celebrate Thanksgiving! As the holiday draws near, we love a cute Thanksgiving craft for kids.

Thanksgiving crafts for kids - make these DIY Thanksgiving paper plate hats craft

A paper plate turkey craft

We sure are. Soon it will be time to prep our Thanksgiving dinner menu and spend our time with loved ones! We love crafting, especially during the holidays, so we looked around in our craft bin and came up with these fun Thanksgiving paper plate turkey hats.

Thanksgiving fun with family

Spending time together is so important, crafting is one of the ways we converse, learn, create, and have fun as a family. We always have craft materials on hand, such as construction paper, paint, glue, ribbon, and much more, and we often put those materials to work.

Get your kids into the Thanksgiving spirit with these adorable paper plate turkey hats! Making these turkey hats for kids was a lot of fun for us to create together, and even more fun for them to wear!

Try making these Thanksgiving paper plate turkey hats with your kids! If you’ve got paint, scissors, glue, and paper plates, you can make these right away.

This art project can be fun for preschoolers, in an early elementary school-aged classroom, and at home as well. Here’s how to make this easy and fun Thanksgiving craft idea.

Materials needed to make two turkey hats:

1 white paper plate
brown paint – I mixed green and red
colored construction paper or cardstock
4 googly eyes
scissors
craft or school glue
ribbon
hole punch (optional)

How to make turkey hats

To get started on this DIY turkey hat craft, cut your paper plates in half, right down the middle. Paint the raised side/underside of the plate completely brown. This will be the base of the hat. Allow the paint about 30 minutes to dry.

Cut feathers out of construction paper

While your turkey hat is drying, cut out your turkey’s feathers. To make sure they all come out the same size, first cut a feather from one of the pieces of construction paper, sitting landscape. That will be your template; trace this one to make the rest and cut each one out. You’ll need 10 feathers total, 5 for each hat. Make sure you save the paper scraps!

Glue on the paper turkey feathers

Next, flip over your brown paper plate and glue on your feathers, curved side up (the inside/white side of the hat). Spread glue on about half of each feather and press onto the back of the plate, so that the other half of the feather is sticking up and can be seen on the other side.

Allow the glue on the feathers a few minutes to dry and set.

Flip the hat over and glue on the googly eyes. With the paper scraps you saved, cut out a triangle shape for the beak and a weird squiggly shape for the waddle. Glue them below the eyes in the desired locations.

Your Thanksgiving craft hat is almost finished!

Allow your hat to dry, then punch or cut holes in each side and tie two pieces of ribbon on each. Make sure each side is long enough to go around the back of the head and tie a bow with.

When it’s ready, tie it onto the back of your child’s head, kind of like a headband, and wear it proudly!

Wear that paper plate turkey hat!

My kids had fun making their Thanksgiving hats, now they’re all set for turkey day! I hope y’all enjoy making these DIY turkey hats, this is one of my favorite Thanksgiving turkey crafts for kids!

Also, if you love fun Thanksgiving crafts, don’t miss out on this free printable Thanksgiving banner. It is a super cute homemade decoration for your house.