Foam Dice Turkey (Dollar Store DIY)

This cute foam dice turkey is the perfect Thanksgiving craft for kids and adults! This easy DIY project uses Dollar Tree supplies to make a fun turkey that is perfect on your Thanksgiving table, used as a place card or as a decoration at home.

Foam Dice Turkey with yellow pumpkin on wood background

We love using Dollar Tree foam dice for crafts! Check out these fun ideas, too:

Foam Dice Pumpkins
Foam Dice Scarecrow

Helpful Tips

Instead of felt, you could use craft foam instead.
We highly suggest using hot glue rather than craft glue for this project since the turkey body can get a bit heavy with all of the materials.
You don’t have to use the same paint colors we did. If you want bright red and orange and yellow, go for it!
Want to make this a place card? Write each person’s name on a turkey on the top, flat side using a permanent black marker.

Foam Dice Turkey with a pumpkin and red fall leaves.

DIY Foam Dice Turkey

The supplies below are for one turkey. Most items were purchased at the Dollar Tree.

Materials

Free Foam Dice Turkey Pattern
1 Foam Dice
7 Jumbo Craft Sticks
2 Wiggle Eyes
1 Wooden Dowel, 6”
2 Wooden Stars
Craft Felt or Craft Foam (Brown, Burgundy, and Gold)
Acrylic Craft Paint (Medium Brown, Dark Brown, Burgundy, Yellow, Gold, Bright Orange, Dark Orange)
Hot Glue Gun
E6000 (or another strong adhesive other than hot glue)
Paintbrush
Ruler
Pencil with a sharpened point
Black Permanent Marker

Instructions

Step 1

Remove the foam dice from the packaging.

Paint the dice with medium brown acrylic craft paint. Let paint dry and apply a second coat, if needed.

Step 2

Paint the front, back and sides of 7 jumbo craft sticks with acrylic craft paint. Most of the sticks will be different colors. Follow this guide for painting:

Burgundy (2)
Yellow (1)
Gold (1)
Bright orange (1)
Dark orange (1)
Dark brown (1)

Allow to dry. Add a second coat, if needed.

Step 3

Measure each craft stick and place a mark at the halfway point. Cut each stick in half with scissors. A craft knife would also work to cut the craft sticks in half.

Step 4

Add lines to make each stick look like a feather. Using a black permanent marker, draw a line down the center of each craft stick. Then draw diagonal lines from the center line to the edge, drawing upward.

These lines don’t all have to match and they don’t have to be perfect!

Step 5

Now it’s time to glue on the turkey feathers. Place one of the 4 burgundy halves in the center of the dice towards the top and glue.

Next, use two more burgundy halves and glue to either side of the dice on the ends, close to the base.

Then decide how you will add the rest of the “feathers” by placing them and arranging them in the best way without gluing yet.

Once you have the placement, glue the half sticks to the back of the dice, overlapping the craft sticks. You will want to make a half circle shape with all of the sticks, so try to keep the ends even.

We did not use the fourth burgundy craft stick half, but if you want to add it, that’s great!

Step 6

Print out our free turkey pattern. Cut out the template pieces and trace them on felt.

We used gold felt for the turkey beak, and burgundy felt for the turkey waddle.

Glue the turkey nose in the middle of the foam dice on the front. Then glue the waddle over the nose, with the waddle hanging to the side of the beak.

Next, glue two wiggle eyes above the waddle.