How To Draw A Turkey Animal

Need a quick and easy 40-minute art lesson for your Kinders or beginning grade course? For the last day of my Autumn rotation, Kinders each creates an ambrosial thanksgiving turkey. I hadn't done a guided cartoon lesson with this group still, simply since they have all settled downward and have become quite adept listeners, I figured a directed line drawing lesson was due.

Y'all'll need a 12″ 10 18″ piece of sulphite paper, blackness oil pastels, colored oil pastels, liquid watercolor pigment, craft feathers, white glue and a small plastic container lid.

Watch this short how-to video:

How to draw a turkey…

I must acknowledge that my ain version of a Thanksgiving turkey looks more like a peacock than a turkey, but at the fourth dimension, information technology was the best I could do. I experimented with a few body shapes before deciding that tracing a container top was the best way to begin this lesson with my Kinders. I was not alone with this assessment. A grouping of students who similar to assistance me prep in the morning all agreed that tracing a circle was non just far cuter than my previous sample, and they liked the simpler lesson for their footling buddies.

Who's to debate with sixth course girls?

Another KEY component in helping this projection along was to fold the paper in half to create a crease line. Y'all might retrieve this is light-headed but for my group of Kinders, many take low spatial sensation and although nosotros've been working hard on this, many drawings tend to start way at the lesser of the paper. Have yous experienced this? Idea so.

Then, to describe a Thanksgiving turkey….

Fold paper in half to achieve a pucker line and place container template on peak of the crease line. This helps not merely center the turkey but sets the phase for the turkey's size.
Trace container top with a black oil pastel.
Draw two dots for eyes and an upside down triangle for a neb.
Place oil pastel on crease line correct side by side to the head and draw a Large, Fat abdomen. Go all the style around to the other side of the head. Well-nigh kids (75%) got this so it really helps to use both the container summit and the crease line.
Draw a GOBBLE GOBBLE WIGGLY neck under the head.
Add ii legs by drawing ii directly lines connected by claws. Repeat for 2d leg…or 3rd as some Kinders did.
Now describe the tail feathers. Like I said before, I must have been thinking peacocks because nosotros made some very long tail feathers. Offset by cartoon a direct line above the caput and go all the mode to the tiptop of the paper.
Draw a big curved line effectually the line. Repeat around the sides of the body until you lot have as many tail feathers as you want.
With colored oil pastels, add lines, dots and patterns to the tail feathers and fifty-fifty to the body.
Painting the turkey is easy-peasy with liquid watercolor paints. I place mine in infant food jars and give each kid a brush. Not certain what it was with this group of Kinders but male child-o-boy, did they continue the pigment clean. That's normally the problem with little ones and liquid watercolors but this group actually got into cleaning their brushes. I must have inadvertently threatened them somehow….
Paint each area or shape with a color of pigment. No one listened to this. Some children used ane color for the entire turkey and others painted rainbows. I love them all.
When the children finished painting, add some white glue to the elevation of the head and allow each child to place a arts and crafts feather on the head. This is merely for fun just a very good motivator to finish painting.

Things don't always work out the way you hope. Many Kinders have a very hard time with shapes and lines. It's not only hard to control their little fingers only near often they don't connect the shapes with an object similar a turkey. I become a few strange looking creatures in each course and this is about ever from a younger Kinder. But, how precious does each students Thanksgiving turkey wait?