Paper Turkey

Purpose

This activity promotes visual motor skills by working on grasp, cutting, and fine motor control.

Materials

Beans, Construction Paper, Crayons, Feather, Glue, Markers, Paper Plate, Pen, Scissors, Tissue Paper

Skills

Cutting, Eye-Hand Coordination, Fine Motor Control, Pincer Grasp, Visual Motor

Description

On a brown construction paper, trace the child's hand or have the child trace his own hand using the pen/markers/crayons.

Make sure the thumb is extended and the fingers are spread apart while tracing the hand.

Let the child cut the traced hand. This will be the turkey's body.

Glue the traced hand in the middle of the paper plate.

Use one bean as the turkey's eye and glue it on the traced thumb. On the rest of the fingers, let the child glue feathers.

Take a piece of orange or red tissue paper and let the child crumble it. Glue the crumbled piece as the turkey's wattle.

Using the markers or the crayon, let the child draw the turkey's legs.