Santa Turkey Disguise

Do you have a turkey that needs a disguise this Thanksgiving? Learn how to make thise Santa turkey disguise. Choose between two options and grab our free printable templates on the post!

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The templates include a few options, so you can choose to cover the tail feathers with a big sack of gifts, or with one giant present!

You can also follow a similar design and paint or color on top of the feathers instead.

We love how the cotton ball looks as the beard and trim, but if you don’t have them at home, you can use paper cut-outs instead.

Supplies Needed

• Printable Santa turkey templates – get them at the bottom of the post
• Colored paper – red, black, white, green, pink, and brown (for the sack if you want to make it brown)
• Glue stick – for gluing down paper pieces
• Tacky glue – to attach cotton balls, buttons, string, etc
• Cotton balls – for Santa’s beard and coat trim (optional)
• Mini white buttons – 3 for his jacket (optional) or use a hole punch and make 3 paper circles
• Markers – (or crayons, colored pencils, or paint) to color in the turkey head
• Scissors
• String (optional – for the Santa sack version)

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How to Make a Santa Claus Turkey Disguise

1. Color the turkey head.

Print off the free disguise a turkey templates.

Use markers, paint, colored pencils, or crayons to color in the turkey’s head.

2. Make the template to cover the tail feathers.

Print out the templates (found at the bottom of the post) and choose if you would like to cover the tail feathers with a present sack or a large present.

Find a lid or small circle that is about the size of your turkey’s face – we used a bottle lid.

Line the template up on your turkey so that the bag covers the tail feathers completely. Place the lid over the turkey’s face and trace it.

Use scissors to cut out the circle on the template.

Trace the template onto a piece of brown paper for the Santa bag (or any color you’d like) and cut it out. If you are using the present box you can follow the same steps.

3. Cut out the rest of the paper shapes.

Print and cut out the rest of the templates included in the printable found at the bottom of the post. Kids can also color the templates and glue them on.

4. Glue on the present or present sack.

Use a glue stick to glue the present sack over the turkey.

If doing the present box version, first glue the present box onto the turkey. Then, cut out the ribbon details in contrasting paper. Glue the ribbon pieces on top, trimming them so that the turkey’s face is still visible.

5. Add Santa’s suit.

Glue the Santa body over the turkey’s body.

Add the two arms along with the mittens directly below them.

Next, glue on Santa’s boots to cover the turkey’s feet.

6. Add Santa’s face details.

Glue on Santa’s beard and red hat.

7. Add cotton balls.

Gently unravel a cotton ball to glue on. Add some glue to the beard, hat brim and mitten ends.

This step is optional – if you don’t have cotton balls on hand, just use the templates for the hat and arm trim. Cut them out from white paper and glue them in place instead.

Glue the cotton ball to the beard, hat brim and mitten ends.

8. Add the final details.

Glue 3 small buttons to Santa’s suit. If you don’t have buttons, use a hole punch to make 3 small circles from white paper.

Attach a small white pom pom (or roll up a small piece of cotton ball) for the end of Santa’s hat. If you don’t have those in your stash, use the hat pom pom template included in the printable.

Cut a piece of string and tie it into a small bow, and glue it to the opening of the bag.

Your Santa turkey in disguise is now complete!

See more fun turkey in disguise activities:

• Turkey in Disguise Template
• Printable Turkey in Disguise
• Ballerina Turkey Disguise
• Unicorn Turkey Disguise

Get the Templates Here