Stuff The Turkey Thanksgiving Game For Kids (2024)

Stuff The Turkey Game is an easy-to-make game that is a Thanksgiving Game for Kids. It’s a fun fall game and is the perfect game for your Thanksgiving parties. It’s so, so super simple to make, and a lot of fun for everyone.

Stuff the Turkey Game – A Thanksgiving Game for Kids

Boy oh boy, my kids have plum worn out this turkey bag. They have thrown stuffing (paper balls) into it for three days now. They just don’t get tired of it.

If you are looking for a turkey game for your Thanksgiving holiday, then you have found the right place.

If you still need some great Thanksgiving Game ideas for your holiday fun then you might enjoy my posts on how to set up a Haystack Bowling Game – A fun outdoor game for fall and Thanksgiving, this fun Turkey Leg Ring Toss Game – uses a glow-in-the-dark necklace to ring the turkey leg, or a 10 Minute to Win It Thanksgiving Games -which is a Rip-roaring hilarious games to play with the whole family

What I love about this Turkey Toss game…

• it is easy to set up
• this game provides endless hours of fun for the kids
• it’s a great idea for Thanksgiving which is a hard holiday to find easy games for
• a great Thanksgiving party game to play

Are you ready to play this fun fall game? Let’s make sure you have everything you’ll need…

Supplies You’ll Need:

• 1 large paper bag
• 2 small brown paper bags
• scrap pieces of paper or newspaper
• 2 pieces of white tissue paper
• Stapler
• Warm glue gun and glue sticks or Tacky Glue (affiliate link)
• White paper for onions
• Brown paper for bread
• Green paper for celery

Instructions:

VIDEO

Step One

• If your bag has a lot of advertisem*nts on it then you can slowly, and carefully turn it inside out

Step Two

• Once you have your bag all set and ready to become a turkey, fold the top down toward the inside of the bag. Make the fold about 4 inches long
• Take the two front edges of the bag, and fold them in like you’re wrapping a present
• Staple those two folds down

Step Three

• Take your scrap pieces of paper and wad them up
• Stuff the bottom of the 2 small brown bags with the wadded-up paper
• Place the ends of the white tissue paper down into the bags with only the end peaking out about 1-2 in.
• Twist the top of the bags around and glue or staple them to secure

• Glue the turkey legs onto the big turkey bag

• Wad the pieces of paper up (the brown, white, and green) and glue them into balls, and other colors you have chosen to resemble what you put into your turkey stuffing – These will be what you throw into the turkey
• Now…set the turkey up on a table, and let players take turns to Stuff that Turkey

Scoring in the Game

(Check out the game variation below)

Each player gets a turn at trying to get all of the stuffing balls into the turkey. The one that gets the most into the turkey wins

Expert Tips

• make this game easier or more challenging by placing the bag, close, far away, high, or low to the ground
• stuffing has a lot of different ingredients that you can find paper to represent – white for onion, brown for bread, green for celery, red for cranberries, etc…
• You’ll want to make it hard on the big kids by setting the turkey far enough away
• You can set the turkey game up high, low, far away, or even blindfold the kids

Turkey Game Variations

Stuff the Turkey Toss Game

Make 3 Paper Bag Turkeys and divide players into 2 teams. Place all 3 turkey bags in a vertical line and assign the closest one worth one point, the middle one worth 2 points and the furthest away worth 3 points. Play the game similar to bean bag toss. Give each team 3 wadded pieces of paper of a certain color. For example, Team One would have white paper and Team Two would have brown. They should take turns trying to stuff the turkeys. The first team to get to 21 points wins the game

Here are my Top Amazon Picks for this Turkey Game

(affiliate links)

Here’s the tacky glue I mentioned in the video – Beacon 3 in 1

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Watch My VIDEO on How to Make a Stuff the Turkey Game

Here’s the Printable Instructions

~Melissa – KidFriendlyThingsToDo.com