Thankful Turkey Hats
Celebrate Thanksgiving with this cute, free thankful turkey hat! This hat is great for preschoolers and kindergarteners! Kids will have fun with making this easy Thanksgiving craft and it’s a fun way to display all that they are thankful for!
Thankful Turkey Hats
Making Thanksgiving hats is a creative and festive activity for kids, and a great way to discuss what we are all thankful for during the holiday season. On the thankful turkey hat, students will write what they are thankful for on the turkey feathers. This activity is great for celebrating Thanksgiving in November.
Materials Needed
You only need a few household materials for this activity.
- turkey hat printable (the download is at the bottom of this post)
- card stock paper
- crayons, colored pencils, or markers
- tape or glue
- stapler (optional)
- scissors
Activity Prep
Before doing the activity with students, you will need to do a few things to prep.
- Begin by printing the turkey hats onto card stock paper (you can use regular paper, but card stock holds up better).
- Then cut out the turkey and head band strips. You’ll see two turkeys on the printable. This is to make it easier if you’re making multiple hats.
- There are 3 strips for the headband part. You can use however many you need to wrap it around your child’s head. We only used 2 strips for my 5 year-old.
- Glue or tape the turkey in between two strips of the headband.
Thankful Activity
Ask the child what they are thankful for and write their responses onto the feathers of the turkey. If they need ideas, you can ask some of these questions to help jump-start their ideas!
- What is your favorite thing to eat?
- Who do you live with?
- What activities do you like to do?
- What is something you can’t live without?
Then have the child color the turkey and pictures on the headband.
Lastly wrap the headband around the child’s head and tape or staple it so it fits them.
It looks adorable!
Then they can wear their hats around for everyone to see what they are thankful for! They could even wear it on Thanksgiving day!
Free Printable
I hope you’ll make some thankful turkey hats this month! You can download this free printable by filling out the form below!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for these awesome ideas and teaching tools. I am teaching at an international Christian school in Musanze, Rwanda. We do not always have supplies available and have to be very creative. What you share is very helpful. Blessings, Sue
Awesome
Such a great activity to do with my little ones, thanks for sharing
I think this is a great headband!
I used this for my Preschool class! soo adorable! THANK YOU!
Such a nice activity to celebrate Thanksgiving in the classroom, Thank you for sharing!
Hi, I am trying to print this to use as a classroom project, but every time I try to print it, it is telling me this document is password protected. I’m not sure if this has only happened to me but I was wondering if you knew why that’s happening. Thank you
I’m very sorry about this. There is not a password for printing. Sometimes this happens when you need to updated Adobe Reader. You can also try uninstalling Adobe Reader and then reinstalling it. Let me know if that doesn’t resolve this!
A great way of the kids learning about Thanks giving x