Learning your name takes lots of repetition. This Thanksgiving craft activity provides an opportunity to practice spelling your child’s name and has a fun seasonal twist. We are making Feather Letter Turkeys.
Thanksgiving Name Activities: Turkey Feathers
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Why We Chose This Activity
My youngest has been doing lots of playful learning activities to practice spelling his name. There is no other word more important to a preschooler than their very own name!
We have also been busy preparing Thanksgiving decorations for our house. So, we came up with this fun activity that will help make our house more festive and work on an important literacy skill.
Preparing Letter Feather Turkey
Materials needed: small paper plate, brown crayon, construction paper (red, orange and brown), 2 googly eyes, scissors, marker and glue
1. Have your child color the paper plate brown.
2. Cut and attach the feet, bill and caruncle. Also, attach the eyes.
3. Cut and label a feather from construction paper for each letter in your child’s name.
Note: Your child may be able to do step 2 and 3 on their own.
4. Hide the letter feathers in a designated space.
Playing Letter Feather Turkey
First, your child will go on a feather hunt and collect all the feather letters.
Have your child arrange the feather letters in the correct order to spell their name. You may want to have the name written down to use as a reference. Glue each feather in order on the turkey.
Not only do you have a fun name activity, but you have a special decoration keepsake!
Check out these name activities too: Name Parking Garage and Leaf Name Game from The Pleasantest Thing.
More Turkey and Feather Learning Activities from the Playful Preschool Team
Turkey Learning Games by The Educators’ Spin On It
Textured Turkey Feathers Pre-Writing Activity for #PlayfulPreschool by The Preschool Toolbox
Turkey Geoboard by Still Playing School
Counting Feathers Sticky Wall by Mom Inspired Life
Fine Motor Turkey Math by Fun-A-Day!
Quick & Easy Color Feather Sort by Powerful Mothering
Make Pretty Feather Window Clings-a tutorial by Capri +3
Toilet Roll Turkey by Tiny Tots Adventures
Writing with Feathers by Rainy Day Mum
*This post first appeared on November 12, 2014.
Sara @HappyBrownHouse says
Great idea! Thanks for linking up with Good Tips Tuesday! Featuring you this week
Gude @HodgePodgeCraft says
This is a great idea – my 4 year old loves to write his name too – I am sure he would love to see it as a turkey tail! 😉
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Ashlee says
Stopping by from the Good Tips Tuesday Linky! This is adorable! Pinning!
The Preschool Toolbox says
Jodie – I love this name turkey. Such a great way to encourage name recognition with the seasonal theme!
Susen @ Dabbling Momma says
this is a cute craft and one that my 4 y/o will love!!
Amber {Laptime Songs} says
Our 3 year old loves his name, too! Everybody knows him by his full name. If anyone ever says just Scott, he stops them and has them repeat his full name. He’s gonna love this activity! We have some fun turkey poems that would be fun to recite while we play with his turkey.
Jodie Rodriguez says
That is great Amber!
Theresa (Capri + 3) says
I love this activity. We will try this with our kids this week. They know how to spell their names aloud, but are still working on arranging the letters correctly on paper. Thank you!
Danielle says
This is perfect! My son is also working on learning to spell his name. Great idea!
Devany says
Now that’s adorable AND educational! I love it! Pinning!
Jodie Rodriguez says
Thank you so much Devany. We had a lot of fun with it.
Natasha says
Great activity that I’m going to try today to help my four year old with her name.
Jodie Rodriguez says
Enjoy Natasha! I hope it helps.