Free Turkey Handprint Poem Printables

Handprint Turkey Craft with Free Printable Poems

This is a super cute activity from Little Giraffes that has been popular for years.

Paint child’s palm and thumb brown and each finger a different color. When dry, paint the tip of the index finger red and put on thumbprint for the turkey’s waddle. Use orange marker to make beak and feet and black marker for eyes. Add this poem beneath the turkey handprint:

This isn’t just a turkey,
As anyone can see.
I made it with my little hand
Which is a part of me.
It comes with lots of love
Especially to say:
I hope you have a very
Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Each printable is a full page with this poem in a decorative frame near the bottom, leaving the top of the page open for your child’s painted handprint turkey. Choose from 3 styles: two black-and-white frames and one orange frame.

Ways to use it

Print on cardstock so the paint doesn’t soak through or wrinkle the page.
Use the orange version if you have a color printer, or a black-and-white version to save ink. Children can color the frame themselves.
Read the poem together a few times before painting so children can “read” it to their families.
Add the child’s name and the year to make it a keepsake, and send it home as a Thanksgiving gift.
Hang the finished handprint turkeys together for a Thanksgiving display before they go home.