Fall is a great time to sit around your table with the younger ones and make a few cute kids’ crafts. These little pine cone cuties are a traditional favorite! Today we are sharing a fun printable pattern with our own twist. You can find this pattern and the photo tutorial for these felt and pine cone turkeys at the end of this post. If you want some other fun Thanksgiving craft ideas you can make with kids, take a look at our turkey finger puppet and turkey crayon cup.
Gobble Up
All you need for these felt and pine cone turkeys is a stack of felt, scissors, googly eyes, and some glue. Though I use hot glue for almost everything I make, a white craft glue would work well too—especially for little ones.
Felt is so fun to craft with and once you have the pieces trimmed, you can make these pine cone turkeys come to life with their own personalities. See my step-by-step tutorial of how I made these little turkeys below and you can download and print the pattern at the end of the post. We would love to see the results of your kids’ crafts so make sure and share photos on Instagram with the hashtag #MadeWithLia.
Tools & Materials
- Craft Scissors
- Low-Temp Hot Glue Gun
- Pine Cones
- Googly Eyes
- Lia Griffith’s Wool Blend Felt – Mango, Cranberry, Pumpkin, Bark Brown, Doe Brown, Dove
How to Make a Felt and Pine Cone Turkey
- Gather your craft materials. Then download our turkey pattern at the end of this post.
- Use the pattern to trim your felt pieces. There’s also a pre-colored version if your kids want to make this turkey out of paper instead.
- Use glue to put the face pieces together and then the tail feathers (follow the template notes).
- Glue the tail feathers onto the back of your pine cone.
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39 Comments
Hi Lia.
Is there an SVG file for this? It’s so cute!
There is now!
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Hi! That is working great now! Yeah!! Thank you and again love your site and ideas!!
Hello Lia, I printed off the felt turkey pine cones the a few days ago, then I went back in to print some more and it wont let me open it! I can open all my other downloads except for that one. please help!! ps big fan:) love your ideas!!
We were previously experiencing some technical difficulties as we were switching hosting sites, but we just got the word that everything should be running smoothly again! Please let me know if you have trouble with anything else 🙂 Happy crafting!
Hi there, the link isn’t working again – any chance you can have a peek at the link? Thanks so much!
Hi Sara, sorry for the trouble. I am not sure why you are having problems, it works on our end. Can you try using another internet browser.
I cannot get the download to work either. Do you have to pay for this download?
This download is available only for members of our site 🙂
Hi, these are absolutely adorable and I would love to make them, but it seems that the link isn’t working 🙁
Hmm.. it works for me. Can you try using a different internet browser.
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Such a cute project. I’m going to do one with my Dad who is in a retirement community and one with my niece. Oh, and one for me, of course.
How lovely! Hope you all have fun!
Thank you so much. I have printed out four copies for my daughter, for my grandkids’ school teachers and for my neighbor who is so crafty to do for her grandkids. I know they will love it.
You are so sweet for sharing with friends and family. Hope they will enjoy making them!
Oh, these are so adorable….my grandkids will love making them….you are so kind to share your wonderful talent with us….hugs.
Awe, thank you!! Hugs;-)
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Lia, son divins, que divertits!!! Gràcies maca, a tu no se’t acaben mai les idees,
Una abraçada.
Thank you:)
It appeared that the “Download” button doesn’t work and it just popped up to a jpeg file… 🙂
Sorry about that. It is fixed now. 😉
Hi sweetie, these wee gobblers are sooo cute, my youngest will love making these 🙂 Although i’ve tried to download the files a couple of times and all it it giving me is the jpeg image of the grey download border thingymebob rather than the file, hopefully you will be able to fix it easily cos i’m as eager to play with these as my son will be when he see’e them. Thank you so much for your generosity in sharing all of your awesome projects and files, they are so very much appreciated. Hugs xnx
Thanks for the heads up! Sometime wordpress can be a little turkey too. It is fixed now. 😉
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Love this! So adorable… But the link isn’t working… Do I need to download something?
Oh dear. Sometimes this happens and we have to just fix the link on our end. Fixed now. 😉