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DIY Turkey From A Plastic Bucket

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Learning Fun With Turkey: Turkey Learning Activities

Tons of learning activities revolving around a turkey. Great ideas to incorporate around Thanksgiving. DIY turkey container (he really eats!), rhyming activities, letter identification, initial and ending sound fun, and more!

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You can see the directions to make a turkey out of a Cascade container here.
Get the directions to make the Print & Cut turkey here.

Ways to Use Your Turkey

 Pass out cards to help kids practice basic skills: letter identification, beginning & ending sounds, rhymes, numeral identification, counting, addition, subtraction, or any skill you choose. We used cards from my Turkey Time: Literacy Pack. You can pass out cards to the whole group, or use the turkey in a center. Kids will feed the turkey!

thanksgiving initial sounds initial sounds ending sounds alphabet

Use the “Turkey Time” rhyme to spark excitement with the kids. Change the key words in the rhyme to help students’ focus on the specific skills.

Get your free copy of the turkey rhyme here.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bzdf4OqBvDfcbWFOTFhkWFRXZFE/view?usp=sharing

Materials Needed for Bucket Turkey

  • Plastic bucket (I got mine from the Dollar Store)
  • Foam or card stock
  • Felt to cover the turkey’s body
  •  Hot glue
  • Magnet
  • Tape

 DIY Bucket Turkey

Step 1: Cut out the shapes for the turkey. Use foam or card stock for the turkey shapes. I use foam for a more durable turkey.
Step 2:  Fold the beak in half.

Step 3: Tape the feathers together and glue the black pupils into the middle of the eyes.

Step 4: Tape a magnet or rock to the tip of the beak. This is just to give the beak some weight. It will help keep the turkey’s mouth closed.

Step 5: Tape the beak to the back of the bucket.
Step 6: Tape or glue the eyes to the top of the beak.
Step 7: Tape the feathers to the back of the bucket.
Step 8: Hot glue felt around the base of the bucket.

 Step 9: Your turkey is ready for learning fun!

Thanks for stopping by! Don’t forget to head over to The Primary Pack to see more ideas on how to use the turkey!
Head over to my TPT store to get my “Turkey Time” pack. It will be 50% off for the rest of this week for Kelly and Kim’s Markdown Monday. Check out their blog for this week’s deals!
http://kellyandkimskindergarten.blogspot.com/2015/11/markdown-monday-linky-party-november_8.html
Laura from Differentiation Station Creations

Comments

  1. I was really confused when I read the DIY turkey from a bucket because I wasn't focusing on it and thought you meant an actually turkey for a second but i love what you made its a great idea 🙂

  2. One Professor once said: "emotional working memory training improves the ability to suppress disturbing emotional responses and does so presumably because the executive control network is more activated, the same as you mentioned in your article". The same words are coming to my mind when I think of training brains using different games, developed specially for these purposes. Once I was writing a creative brief on this topic. I still remember that long and neverending discussions with my professor when I told him that such games are essential for every kid who growing up.

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