How to Make a Chalk Art Turkey
Make your own chalk art turkey with colourful pastels and our free printable template! This fall craft is bright, bold, and a perfect Thanksgiving activity for kids of all ages.
Yield: 1 turkey chalk art
Cost: $1
Equipment
Materials
- Free Printable Turkey Chalk Art Template
- Cardstock (brown, orange, red)
- Black paper (or cardstock)
- Soft pastels
- Glue tape
- Large googly eyes (20mm)
Instructions
Step 1: Find what you need
- Gather your supplies and materials.
Step 2: Cut out the turkey pieces
- Print our free turkey template! Find the link in the material's list above.
- Cut out the turkey body and trace it onto brown cardstock. Keep the printed template handy, though -- you'll need it!
- Then cut out the rest of the template pieces. You'll need 2 feet and a beak from orange cardstock, and a wattle from red cardstock.
Step 3: Colour the turkey feathers
- Add loops of painter's tape around the outside of the printed turkey template.
- Press the turkey template down onto the black paper, centering it nicely.
- To add the colourful turkey feathers, use soft pastel to colour from the edge of the template onto the black paper, pressing firmly and extending the colour out about 1 inch.We find it helpful to start at the bottom edge of where you want the feathers to be (about even with the bottom of the wattle).
- Repeat, adding the same colour randomly around the turkey, leaving space in-between.
- Add a second colour to the turkey. How many colours you want to use will determine how wide the bands of colour are and how close you place them.
- Repeat, adding more colours or different shades of the same colour until the top 2/3 of the turkey are surrounded by colour. Then blow off the excess chalk dust.
- Use your finger to smudge the chalk outwards, away from the template. Start by brushing lightly and then repeat if you'd like the chalk spread out farther.
- Carefully remove the template from the paper.
Step 4: Attach the turkey details
- Add glue tape to the back of the brown cardstock turkey body.
- Then attach the feet to the bottom of the body, adding glue tape to the backs of them as well.
- Carefully set the turkey into place, filling the silhouette left by the template.
- Add glue tape to the back of 2 googly eyes and set them in place.
- Then add glue tape to the pointed tip of the wattle, connecting it to the side of the beak.
- Add glue tape to the back of the beak and wattle, and set them in place below the eyes.
- Your turkey chalk art is complete!
Notes
Looking for more chalk art ideas? Here's a few of our favourites:
Halloween Chalk Art
Fall Leaf Chalk Art
Northern Lights Chalk Art