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Thanksgiving Gift: Turkey Cookies

October 13, 2013 by Sarah 7 Comments

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Recently, I have been talking with my wee ones about being Thankful and what that word really means.  I decided it would be nice to make little gifts with the kids to give to some of the many people we are thankful for this Thanksgiving.

I looked on Pinterest (I have so much fun on Pinterest – you are most welcome to ‘Follow’ and share in our fun!) for a Turkey craft, found this one on Teacher Bits and Bobs – and thought – I could do that in Cookie Form.  So we did!  These simple Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies  turned out so cute!

To make these Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies we used:

  • 1 Package Refrigerated Cookie Dough
  • 1 container icing
  • food colouring
  • little decorations for eyes and beaks – we used cut up gummy worms which worked awesome!

First of all, we rolled the cookie dough and placed it on the cookie sheet as though we were making normal cookies.  But before baking them, we put little cuts with a knife around the edge of the cookie – so it looked like a flower.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Next, we made the same number of tiny cookies (for the heads) on a separate cookie sheet

Then we baked them at 350 degrees for 5 minutes (little cookies) and 10 minutes (big cookies)

Once they were cooled, we assembled our Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies.

They are oh so simple to make – perfect for making with kids!  We first of all added food colouring to icing in Ziploc Baggies.  We used red, orange, green, and brown. We just squished around the icing and food colouring until it was mixed (super for clean up!)

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Next, we cut a tiny corner out of each Baggie, and piped around the big cookie to emphasis the slits we cut (feathers).

THanksgiving Turkey Cookies

Then we added a dot of icing and stuck a small cookie on as the Turkey’s head.  We covered this little cookie with brown icing.

Finally, we stuck our candy eyes and beak on to the face.

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

We decided we would deliver these cookies to some friends and neighbours this weekend.  Madeline wrote a cute little card to give with each cookie.

This was a fun baking activity to help my little ones understand appreciating others and be Thankful for all of the wonderful people in their lives.  As we were baking, we kept talking about who we should give each one to – – – by the sounds of that conversation we should have made many more dozens of cookies!

Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies

We made these Thanksgiving Turkey Cookies as gifts, but they would also be cute little cookies for a class, or to bring to Thanksgiving dinner for the kids.

What do you love most about Thanksgiving?  For me, it’s the Pumpkin Pie — um, I mean — spending time with my family 😉

Filed Under: Create, Easy Crafts, Farm Life, Kindergarten, Learn, Letters and Numbers, Letters and Reading, Mama Creates Too, Preschooler, Thanksgiving

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Comments

  1. Mildred Noftle says

    October 13, 2013 at 12:43 pm

    Wow… what nice Turkey Cookies… very interesting. Looks like a fun project…
    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      October 13, 2013 at 6:50 pm

      Happy Thanksgiving!

      Reply
  2. Lynne Burgess says

    October 13, 2013 at 3:46 pm

    Great idea !

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      October 13, 2013 at 6:49 pm

      Thank you Lynne! Are you celebrating Thanksgiving this weekend?

      Reply
  3. Chelsey says

    November 13, 2013 at 4:21 pm

    These are so cute and would make perfect classroom treats! Thank you so much for linking up to Discover & Explore!

    Reply
    • Sarah says

      November 17, 2013 at 7:11 pm

      Thanks Chelsey! Your post on 5 fun ways for cooking with kids was wonderful!

      Reply

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