Thanksgiving Craft - a Clay Turkey

At her Montessori school, Julia made a turkey from oven-baked clay. It took children few weeks to complete the project: they each had to mold, bake, and then paint over with lacquer their own turkey - just in time for Thanksgiving 🦃.

Julia used scotch tape to adhere fresh autumn leaves to turkey's tale to give it a fuller effect.

The original.

Turkeys' back.

Children made this lovely nature display to decorate our learning space. They also used this clay turkey in a Thanksgiving-Inspired Forest Animals Sensory Bin.

Read more about our Fall-Inspired Activities here.