I’m so excited to share this fun Paper Feathered Turkey with you today! A few weeks ago I was in charge of a couple of crafts at Super Saturday, and I had some 1″ x 12″ scraps of this fun fall paper left over. I can’t just throw perfectly good paper away, so I put it in my stash of scraps. I’d been thinking about making a Turkey, and had a couple of ideas, then I remembered these strips of paper! They were perfect.
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Supplies needed for this project:
- Fall Colored Double Sided Cardstock
- Turkey Body (I cut my own using MDF and my Jig Saw)
- Brown Paint
- Jewel for the Eyes
- Yellow Paper Scraps
- Red Paper Scrap
- Sandpaper
- Burlap Ribbon
- Hot Glue Gun
- Paper Trimmer
If you don’t already have strips of 1″ x 12″ paper, then use your paper trimmer to cut some. I love this paper trimmer because it is precise and the lines are straight because of the rotary cutter on it.
I started by using my jigsaw to cut the pear shape for the Turkey body. I had drawn the shape on a paper then traced it onto my wood and cut it out. Then I cut a piece of cardstock that was just smaller than the larger part of the Turkey’s body. This is what I glued the paper feathers to.
I used my hot glue gun to glue the paper strips and layered them a little as well.
I love that the paper is double sided so it’s not boring on the inside of the feathers either!
I painted the Turkey body brown and using the sandpaper did just a slight distressing on it. I added some jewels for the eyes then free hand cut out the beak and red hangy thing using scraps of yellow and red cardstock. (I have no idea what it’s called. Edit: I’ve since learned that it’s called a waddle.) 🙂
I also free hand cut out the feet from yellow cardstock.
Once I had the face and feet on the Turkey, I thought it needed a little something more, so I added some burlap ribbon, and the give thanks ribbon on top of it.
I seriously am loving how it turned out! It’s currently adorning my front door!
What do you have on your front door for Thanksgiving?
If you enjoyed this post, you might also like these other Thanksgiving projects.
Thanksgiving Turkey Name Card Tutorial
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Oh my goodness. He is so cute! I love the papers you chose. What a great Thanksgiving decoration! I just have a fall wreath on my front door. 🙂
That is adorable! I have a turkey door hanger from The Wood Connection, but I kinda wish I had done this instead. 🙂
That is adorable! I have a turkey door hanger from The Wood Connection, but I kinda wish I had done this instead. 🙂
I am SO doing this next year! Thanks for sharing – and your pics are awesome too! 🙂
Sarah @
http://www.blissfulbucketlist.com
Oh this is adorable!!! I am going to pin this – how cute!
How cute is that?? Love all of the different paper patterns. Pinned!
I love this! It’s different and CA~UTE! We are SO making one for our front door!
That is one cute turkey!! Way to go using the jigsaw, that thing scares me!
Love all the colors and that the paper is double sided. Turned out so cute!
Melissa
http://www.lovebugliving.com
Oh. My. Gosh. Adorable!
I have a weekend party I’d love for you to share this on:
http://westernwarmth.blogspot.com
Thanks!
Bobi
Love this..adorable! We would love for you to share this on our Kitchen Fun and Crafty link party! http://kitchenfunwithmy3sons.blogspot.com/2012/11/kitchen-fun-and-crafty-friday-link_15.html
That is such a cute idea. I really love the colors of it all. Megan
Hey from tessacotton! Love your creation, and the adorable rustic look. I would be so thrilled if you would link up to my new, thanksgiving themed linky party!
http://tessacotton.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-link-party.html
This is so adorable. 🙂
cute!! I would be honored if you shared this at my Ginger Jamboree Link Party!
This is adorable! I love the paper that you used!
This is SO cute!! I have a ton of a paper scraps I could use for this project (I can never bring myself to throw them away!). Saw you featured over at SNAP! 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving!
I love it! What a great project! I’m definitely pinning this for next year!!
this is so cute ! and seems relatively easy 🙂 thanks for sharing !
Super Cute!!! I love this craft, easy and LOVE the results!
I think it’s called the waddle??? I could totally be wrong though!
How adorable! BTW: that thing hanging down is called a ‘wattle’. Chickens have them too, with a ‘comb’ ( mostly roosters) on their heads.
Hi 🙂
I love your turkey! I’m going to make a few of them today. Do you know approximately how tall and how wide the turkey body is?
Thank you very much!
Stephanie
Hi Stephanie, The turkey body is about 6″ wide by 7″ tall. 🙂
I absolutely love this bird:) I’m going to let my Sunday school kids make them as well as my grandchildren! What width of plywood did you use? Thanks so much!
Hi Kimberly, I’m so glad you like it, it’s one of my favorite projects. I used 1/4″ MDF to cut the turkey body from.