Hang this easy DIY Tulle Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath from your door to ensure you don’t miss Thanksgiving! Your guests will love it!
It’s possible to find Halloween décor as early as the end of July, and creating our Witch Hat Headband is a simple project that you can do almost year-round. However, in September, stores begin to stock only Christmas décor, with not a single item for Thanksgiving!
We are firm believers in not skipping Thanksgiving. I try my best to decorate our house for Thanksgiving, even though it can be challenging to find festive décor. Like this simple Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath craft!.
We do a lot of last-minute crafts in our home. Especially when I spend months looking for new Thanksgiving decorations only to come up disappointed.
All it means is that I’ll have to make them myself, which will give you the opportunity to enjoy these impromptu Thanksgiving crafts!
The idea and desire to make our Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath came to me immediately after I made our first Christmas Tulle Wreath, and I have been wanting to make it for years!
But since it was December, I figured I was way out of season. And then I revisited the idea when I made our very popular Halloween Tulle Wreath.
Oh my goodness, I was beginning to think that I would never finish my Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath project!
Since it occurred the day before Thanksgiving, there wasn’t much time left for anyone else to make one in time for the holiday. And hey, that may be cutting it pretty close! .
Our little Turkey only spent a few short days on our front door that first year. But he kept nicely in storage. And now he will be hitting my front door again come November 1st!.
Hello, fellow fans of Thanksgiving! Do you want to decorate your house for the holiday in a fun and festive way? Then this amazing turkey wreath is perfect for you! It’s a striking addition to your décor and surprisingly simple to make. So, grab your crafting supplies and let’s get started!.
Gather Your Supplies:
Before you dive into crafting make sure you have all the necessary materials on hand. Here’s a list of everything you’ll need:
- Base: A foam wreath form (size of your choice)
- Fabric: Brown felt, orange felt, red felt, yellow felt, black felt, white felt (scraps are fine)
- Embellishments: Googly eyes, buttons, yarn, ribbon, feathers (optional)
- Tools: Scissors, hot glue gun, glue sticks, pencil, ruler
Let’s Get Crafty!:
Now that everything you need is prepared, it’s time to get creative and begin making your magnificent turkey wreath!
Step 1: Create the Turkey Body:
- Cut out a large oval shape from the brown felt for the turkey’s body.
- Cut out a smaller oval shape from the orange felt for the turkey’s head.
- Glue the head onto the top of the body, slightly overlapping.
- Cut out two smaller ovals from the red felt for the turkey’s wattle (the fleshy bit under the beak).
- Glue the wattles under the beak, one on each side.
Step 2: Craft the Feathery Fan:
- Cut out several long, thin strips of brown felt for the turkey’s tail feathers.
- Glue the strips of felt around the back of the turkey’s body, overlapping them slightly to create a fan-like effect.
- If desired, add additional layers of feathers for a fuller look.
Step 3: Give Your Turkey Some Personality:
- Cut out two small circles from the black felt for the eyes.
- Glue the googly eyes onto the head, or use buttons or fabric paint to create your own eyes.
- Cut out a small triangle from the yellow felt for the beak.
- Glue the beak under the eyes.
- Cut out a small red triangle for the turkey’s snood (the fleshy bit above the beak).
- Glue the snood above the beak.
Step 4: Decorate Your Wreath:
- Attach the finished turkey to the foam wreath form using hot glue.
- Use the remaining felt scraps to create additional embellishments for your wreath. You can add leaves, berries, pumpkins, or anything else that fits your Thanksgiving theme.
- Get creative! Use yarn, ribbon, or feathers to add texture and interest to your wreath.
Step 5: Hang It Up and Admire Your Work!
Once you’re satisfied with the design, hang your festive turkey wreath in a visible location in your house. It will undoubtedly infuse your décor with a little joy and Thanksgiving spirit.
Tips and Tricks:
- Don’t be afraid to get creative and personalize your turkey wreath. Use different colors and patterns of felt, or add other embellishments that reflect your style.
- If you don’t have felt on hand, you can use other materials like fabric scraps, construction paper, or even leaves.
- This is a great project to do with kids! They’ll love helping to create the turkey and decorate the wreath.
- If you’re feeling ambitious, you can even make a whole flock of turkeys to create a Thanksgiving-themed garland.
That’s it! You now know how to create a Thanksgiving turkey wreath that will wow your guests and bring some holiday spirit into your house. So, grab your supplies, get crafting, and have fun!.
Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath craft
Hang this easy DIY Tulle Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath from your door to ensure you don’t miss Thanksgiving! Your guests will love it!
- Foam wreath. You can pick any size you want. I went small.
- FolkArt outdoor acrylic paint in maple syrup, yellow lemon custard, and black liquorice
- Styrofoam ball medium for the turkey head
- Styrofoam cone small for the turkey beak
- Two Small styrofoam balls for the eyes
- 1 red craft foam sheet
- 1 skeen Brown Yarn
- 25 yards Red Tulle
- 25 yards Orange Tulle
- 25 yards Brown Tulle
- 25 yards Yellow Tulle
- Glue gun
- Fabric Scissors
- Hot Glue
- Cardboard
- Foam Paint Brushes
- Toothpicks
- Paint Styrofoam pieces.
- Paint circle brown for the head
- Paint the Cone yellow for the beak
- Add black circles to the small round balls for eyes
- Measure out and cut Tulle to length. Watch the video to see how to accomplish this easily and quickly. Thirty-five red tulle strips and thirty orange, brown, and yellow tulle strips are needed.
- Determine and mark one-third of the wreath for the “chest.”
- Place the yard in place using hot glue, starting from the measured portion.
- After the brown yarn has completely covered the “chest,” keep wrapping tightly. Trim and secure end with hot glue.
- Arrange the tulle strips according to your preferred color scheme.
- Tie on five strips of Red. Then tie on 5 strips of the next color. And keep doing this until you run out of tulle or get to the yarn’s other end.
- Insert a toothpick or two into the base of the circular ball that you painted brown. Apply a tiny bit of hot glue to the foam ball’s base in the vicinity of the toothpicks. Insert the toothpicks into the center wreath of the yarn section. Press until the toothpicks are fully buried in the wreath and the turkey head is securely embedded in the yarn.
- Cut a Snood shape out of the red foam sheet. I free-handed the cutting.
- Put hot glue on the back of the Snood’s tip and attach it to the center of the turkey head.
- Insert a toothpick into the center of the back of the turkey’s beak. Add Hot Glue to the base around the toothpick. Insert the toothpick through the top of the turkey’s snood and its head. Apply pressure until the beak of the turkey is securely attached to the head.
- Attach the eyes to the toothpicks with hot glue and set them in place.
- Create a “hanger” from more tulle
- Hang your Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath on your door and enjoy!
The active time may vary based on your level of expertise and how quickly you can tie or wrap the yarn.
I like to start with the painting so that when I wrap the tulle and yard around the wreath, everything will be dry.
Hang your Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath on your door and enjoy!
I’ve been asked many times how I hang my wreaths on my door.
I’ve tried those crazy “over the door Hooks”. Yes, they work. But they don’t always get the wreath to hand where I want it to hang. Furthermore, even with a “over the door” hanger, a door jam that is too tight may keep your door from closing properly.
What I have been using recently has been working brilliantly! I purchase a few 3M Outdoor Command Hooks. You definitely want the OUTDOOR version because they last much longer to the outdoor elements than the regular command hooks.
I stick one on my front door and hang my wreaths. That’s it!
To change the way my wreath hangs, all I have to do is remove the hook without damaging my door. I love them!.
But no matter how you hang your Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath, one thing will definitely be the same!
You will for certain get a lot of comments on your new awesome Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath!
It’s a great conversation starter and will make your home quite festive for the Thanksgiving season!
So don’t skip decorating for Thanksgiving anymore!
And be sure to tag me on Instagram or Facebook so I can see how it turned out!
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For more enjoyable activities to keep the kids occupied while they wait for the turkey to be ready to eat, check out our selection of quick Last-Minute Thanksgiving crafts! You can also try our snack-friendly Clay Pot Turkey Craft or the engaging Apple Turkey Craft!
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Tulle Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath Craft
I call it a 2-day craft, simply because you have to allow some paint to dry. And I can only snag a few hours away from Miss Rose at a time while she naps.
But the acrylic paint only takes about an hour to dry. So really, if you don’t have a baby underfoot, you can get it all done in one day.
Watch our Video Tutorial here!!! You can also catch it on Youtube.
Supplies:
I regularly purchase my craft supplies from Walmart, Michaels, and Amazon.
Step 1: Paint
The first thing to do is to get the styrofoam pieces painted. The larger round ball, cone, and small round balls.
Use the maple syrup acrylic paint to paint the large round ball. This will be the Turkey’s head.
Since it is styrofoam you can’t really brush like a normal painting. Its texture is too rough. Simply dab it around and work to make the painting even.
Because it’s spherical, you can use toothpicks to create a stand so the ball can dry off without resting on anything.
Paint the Cone with the Lemon Custard acrylic paint. Again create a base with toothpicks so it can stand and dry.
Lastly, paint a tiny section in front of each of the smaller circles with the black acrylic paint. These will be the pupils of the eyeballs.
I used an extra cone I happened to have and inserted a toothpick into the back of each eye to provide a space for the eyes to dry.
Allow a minimum of 1 hour to dry. Check to ensure each item is completely dry and not tacky to the touch before moving on.
Step 2: Cutting the Tulle
This can be a very tedious process. But there is a trick to cutting up the tulle. Decide how fluffy you want your “feathers” to be. Tulle needs to be just long enough to completely encircle the wreath, but not so long that it takes up too much space after being tied.
You can usually do well with tulle between 16-20″ in length. Try different pieces and decide which length you like best once it is tied on.
When you know the length of the tulle you want, cut out a strip of cardboard with a box cutter from a spare shipping box.
Wrap the tulle around the length of the cardboard, over and over again. You will count until you have about 30 strips (not complete circles) wound around the cardboard.
Use the scissors and trim off the spool. Then cut at the opposite ends of the cardboard. You just cut 30 strips of tulle in less than 5 minutes!.
I used 30 strips of yellow, orange and brown tulle. But because I wanted to start and end with Red, I used 35 strips of red tulle.
HUGE time saver! If you need help, watch our video tutorial above to see how it is done.
Step 3: Wrap The Yarn
I used to say tying all the tulle in place took the longest when doing a tulle wreath. I retract my statement, though, as it takes a lot longer to wrap yarn around a wreath. Please settle in for the following step.
Lay the wreath flat. Determine how much of the DIY Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath you want to display underneath the turkey or as its “chest.” Mark it with a pen.
I aimed for slightly less than 1/3 of the circle.
Then secure the end of the yard on one end with hot glue.
Wrap the yarn around the wreath. Keep the yarn taut as you go to ensure a smooth wrapping.
When you reach your 2nd mark, trim the yard and secure the end with more hot glue.
Step 4: Tie the Tulle
Decide which pattern of colors you want your tulle to have on your Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath. I decided to go in a Red, Yellow, Orange, Brown pattern.
Layout the tulle strips in the color pattern of your choice.
Begin tying the tulle onto the wreath. Beginning at one end of the yarn, work your way around the wreath, covering the areas where the styrofoam is still visible.
Tie on five strips of each color. Then tie on 5 strips of the next color. And keep doing this until you run out of tulle or get to the yarn’s other end.
Once you have all the tulle strips attached, adjust the “tightness” of the colors around the wreath. If the batch of red appears a little squashed, adjust the surrounding tulle to give it a little more space.
Then fluff all the tulle ends to give the look of fluffy feathers.
Step 5: Attach the Head
Insert 1-2 toothpicks into the base of the round ball you painted brown.
Add a little hot glue on the base of the styrofoam ball near the toothpicks.
Insert the toothpicks into the wreath in the center of the yarn section.
Press until the toothpicks are fully submerged in the wreath and the turkey head is securely embedded in the yarn. The glue should help secure the head to the wreath.
Using the turkey beak cone as a guide, cut a red foam strip the same width as the cone, but double its length. This will be the Snood of the Thanksgiving Turkey Wreath.
Cut a Snood shape out of the red foam sheet. I free-handed the cutting.
Apply hot glue to the back of the Snood’s tip, then affix it to the turkey head’s center. You can place it at an angle if you so desire.
Insert a toothpick into the center of the back of the Turkey Beak. Add Hot Glue to the base around the toothpick.
Insert the toothpick through the top of the snood and into the turkey head.
Push until the turkey beak is securely attached to the head. It will overlap the snood.
Now add 2 toothpicks to the head where you want the eyes placed.
Attach the eyes to the toothpicks to ensure they look right. If not adjust the toothpicks or the eyes on the toothpicks.
After the eyes are correct, attach them back to the toothpicks by applying hot glue to their undersides.
Step 6: Hang
Create a “hanger” from more tulle. Decide which patch of tulle is directly center above the turkey head and cut a length of tulle.
Work attaching the tulle in the middle of the patch of tulle that matches the color.
Create a hook with the tulle. Secure both ends and work it to the back of the tulle.
Now you have a hook that isn’t obviously visible.
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FAQ
How do you make a turkey wreath?
How to make a wreath for Thanksgiving?
How do you make a Turkey wreath from Deco exchange?
Turkey from Deco Exchange Turkey Kit SOLD OUT (but you can use a plush from another store) With the wire wreath holding 18 ties in total, use three curls per twist tie. Cut twelve 10” strips of the Poly Burlap Mesh, Orange Mesh and Yellow Mesh. Next, cut three more curls of Yellow Mesh.
How do you wrap a Turkey wreath?
Burlap makes an easy and appealing wrap. If you cover the entirety of the wreath with mesh and tulle, then this design also does double duty. To replace the turkey with another character or just to remove it for the remainder of the fall, simply unwind its pipe cleaner attachments.
Can you make a Turkey wreath with felt?
Felt and yarn combine to make this sweet and cuddly DIY door hanger. As you can see, any color combination of felt feathers will work. The turkey itself is made from an old t-shirt. The wreath form is wrapped in cream yarn, but feel free to choose any color that works best with the rest of your display. 12. Crochet Turkey Wreath with Legs
How do you make a wire wreath?
The wire wreath frame holds 18 zip ties in total. We’re going to add three curls to each twist tie. Cut twelve 10” strips of each color of mesh (Poly Burlap Mesh, Orange Mesh, and Yellow Mesh). Next, cut an extra three curls of Yellow Mesh. Cut fifteen 10” strips of the 21” Poly Deco Mesh. Take a strip of 21” Poly Deco Mesh and fold it in half.