How to Make a Fun, Cheap and Easy Turkey Bread Basket for Thanksgiving Day

If you're having a Thanksgiving Day dinner at your house or you're in charge of bringing the bread to someone's Thanksgiving Day feast, consider making a turkey bread basket as a holiday craft project. Homemade Thanksgiving Day turkey bread baskets are fun and easy to make and inexpensive too.

Here is how to make a fun and cheap turkey bread basket to hold sliced bread or dinner rolls this Thanksgiving Day.

The first thing you'll want to do when getting ready for this holiday craft project is gather your materials for your turkey bread basket.

What you'll need to make a turkey bread basket is a large wooden spoon, a red marker, a pencil and a pair of scissors, glue, a variety of construction paper and a pair of craft googly eyes. You'll also need a cloth dinner napkin for the turkey bread basket, as well as a Styrofoam block to place in the basket.

Other materials for the turkey bread basket include wooden skewers and of course a basket to hold the bread. Make sure you get a bread basket that's large enough to suite your needs.

After you've gathered the materials for the turkey bread basket, you'll want to create the turkey's head with the large wooden spoon. The back of the spoon will be the turkey's face. Glue the googly eyes onto the spoon and create a beak for the turkey using yellow construction paper. Next, you'll need the red marker to draw the turkey's wattle on the large wooden spoon.

Create the turkey feathers with the construction paper. Create enough feathers to fill one end of the bread basket, which would depend on the size of the bread basket. Attach the wooden skewers to the construction paper feathers. Let the skewers extend by at least two inches because you'll stick them into the Styrofoam block inside the bread basket. Glue another construction paper feather to the back of the other to cover the backside of the skewer.

Put the foam block into the turkey bread basket. Insert the spoon with the turkey face at one end of the basket. Put the feathers in at the back end of the basket. Hide the Styrofoam clock with the cloth napkin.

Place the loaf of bread or dinner rolls into your new turkey bread basket and it's ready to be placed on the Thanksgiving Day dinner table.