DIY Turkey Ring for Kids

My daughter has been fascinated with rings lately so after seeing the spider ring in one of the stores I made one for her and she loved it! In fact, she loved it so much that I decided to make a Turkey version of the ring.

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Supplies needed:

4 pipe cleaners
1 large brown pom
2 googly eyes
orange and red foam sheet
glue gun

Tutorial:

1. Fold fuzzy sticks around fingers and make a loop

I found it easiest to start making this ring right on my child’s finger. Fold the four fuzzy sticks in half and over your child’s finger. Hold them firmly in place with one hand. With your other hand, make a loop with the front fuzzy stick leaving enough slag at the bottom to wrap it around all the fuzzy sticks to secure the ring shape in place.

2. Make loops with all fuzzy sticks

Make a loop with the second fuzzy stick (same color) and wrap the slag around the ring again. Continue doing this with all the fuzzy sticks until they are all in a loop shape and the slag is wrapped around the fuzzy sticks making a ring.

3. Shape your sticks as wanted

Now you can bend and shape the fuzzy sticks exactly how you want. I made mine a little pointy on the end and spread the loops out to look like full feathers.

4. Glue brown bom onto ring

Use your hot glue gun (requires adult supervision) to glue a large brown pom onto the front of the ring in front of the feathers.

5. Add eyes, beak and snood

Also glue on your two googly eyes, a triangle shaped beak made out of an orange foam sheet and a red snood made out of a red foam sheet. Tacky glue may work for this also if you don’t want to use a hot glue gun. It will require drying time though.

When you are finished you are left with an adorable turkey ring. As you can see in the picture below it is large for my 4 year old, but she just loves it! She wore it the entire day today.

Here is one I made below for my 7 year old. I stuck with more fall colors for the feathers but you could let children choose whichever colors they want.

These turkey rings work perfectly as finger puppets too. You can use them to reenact some of your favorite turkey books. One of our favorites is: