Cut 2 strips of paper 2-1/2 inches wide and about 12 inches long, from a piece of heavy brown cardstock.
Add hot glue to one of the short ends of the cardstock.
Align and attach the other cardstock strip, holding it for a couple of minutes until the glue dries.
Measure around your head and then compare that measurement with how big the headband needs to be.
Add 1 inch to your head measurement (this allows room for some of the feathers inside).Then glue together the other sides of the cardstock, giving the hat its headband base.
Step 3: Make the turkey's feathers
Place a piece of yellow construction paper with the long edge in front of you. Fold up about 1/4 inch of the paper, all the way across.Flip the paper over and fold up another 1/4 inch. Repeat until the whole paper is folded accordion style, and then fold the paper in half.
Cut one end of the folded paper on an angle. Cut about 1/2 inch down on one side, angled up to the other corner.
Make an equal cut on the other side, making sure to cut in the same direction.This creates the pointed feather look on the fanned paper.
Add glue tape to the inside of the fan.
Push the center parts together, attaching the two sides.
Accordion fold an orange piece of construction paper. Cut the ends about an inch shorter than the yellow paper.Repeat with a red piece of paper, cutting the ends an inch shorter than the orange paper.Just like before, connect these fans in the center with glue tape.
Step 4: Make the turkey parts
Print out our free turkey hat template (find the link above!) and cut out the pieces of the body, beak, and wattle.
Trace the turkey body on the textured scrapbook paper.
Cut out the turkey's body.Trace the beak onto orange paper, the wattle onto red, and cut these out as well.
Use brown pipe cleaners to make the turkey's legs.To start, bend a pipe cleaner down about 1 inch and then back up on itself. Repeat 3 more times.Arrange the folds into 3 separate toe sections, and then bend the rest of the pipe cleaner into wavy curves.Repeat for the second pipe cleaner.
Step 5: Put the turkey hat together
Add a generous amount of hot glue to the bottom center of the orange paper fan.
Place the orange feathers inside the headband, along one of the connecting seams.Hold the paper until it stays in place by itself.
Attach the yellow feathers behind the orange, aligning the bottoms so that the yellow sticks out 1 inch above the orange.
Add glue to the back of the red feathers and attach these on the outside of the headband, so that the top of the feathers are about 1 inch below the orange.
Add hot glue to the bottom front of the red feathers and attach the turkey body onto the glue. Place the body so that it sticks out 1 inch below the headband.
Add hot glue behind the turkey body on one side. Place one of the pipe cleaner legs into the glue, holding it in place. Add more glue on top of the leg, if needed.Repeat with the second leg on the other side.
Add glue tape to the back of the wattle.
Attach it to the turkey's head, and then glue the beak so it's slightly overlapping.
Use glue tape to attach the googly eyes above the beak.