How to Make Oreo Turkey Cookies
Are you looking for fun Thanksgiving activities for kids? These Oreo turkey cookies are so cute!
They are perfect for a class or homeschool party.
Perfect activity for the kids to do on Thanksgiving after they eat turkey and dressing.
Are you ready to see how easy these are to make? Everyone will love them!
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Supplies (for 1 cookie):
- 1 Oreo cookie (or the like)
- 5 candy corns
- 1 stick pretzel
- 1 Whopper
- 1 Starburst candy
- 2 candy eyes
- 1 T of store bought white icing in a ziplock bag
Gather up your supplies.
Just put the store-bought icing in a ziplock bag. Use scissors to snip one corner of the bag so you can use it to pipe icing on the cookie. Set it aside for the moment. We will use it soon.
Take the candy corns and poke them into the filling of the cookie like the image below.
Fan them out to look like feathers.
Then, break the pretzel stick in half.
Pole them into the bottom part of the cookie to serve as turkey legs.
Then, pipe some icing onto the Whopper candy.
Place it in the middle of the cookie as the nose.
Break a small piece of the Starburst candy off and form it into a triangle.
Use the icing to secure it to the Whopper. This will serve as the turkey’s beak.
Finally, use the icing to secure the two candy eyes above the Whopper.
Your turkey Oreo turkey will look like this when you’re done.
Super fun and super easy.
The kids can do it themselves, or you can help.
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- Turkey Cookie in a Pudding Cup
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- Thanksgiving Do a Dot Printable
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- Turkey Smores
- P is for Pilgrim Do a Dot Printable
Thanksgiving Books for Kids:
- T is for Turkey
- If You Sailed on The Mayflower in 1620
- The Perfect Thanksgiving
- What is Thanksgiving
- 10 Fat Turkeys
- Thanks for Thanksgiving
- If You Were at the First Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving is for Giving
- The Pilgrims’ First Thanksgiving
- The Very First Americans
- The Night Before Thanksgiving
How to Make Oreo Turkey Cookies
These turkey Oreos are so cute and a great treat for Thanksgiving!
Materials
- 1 Oreo cookie (or the like)
- 5 candy corns
- 1 stick pretzel
- 1 Whopper
- 1 Starburst candy
- 2 candy eyes
- 1 T of store bought white icing
Tools
- scissors
- ziploc bag
Instructions
- Put some of the white icing into the ziploc bag. Snip a small corner of the ziploc bag to pipe the icing.
- Push the candy corns gently into the cookie frosting, careful not to break the cookie apart.
- Snap the pretzel stick in half and stick through the bottom of the cookie sandwich for the legs.
- Using the icing, squeeze some on the Whopper candy and stick in the center of cookie. This will be part of the nose.
- Pinch a small piece of the Starburst candy and dab some icing on to make the turkey beak. Stick to the Whopper candy.
- Using a small amount of icing secure the eyes to the cookie above the nose you just created.
I made some oreo turkey cookies similar to these and found that I should have used the double stuffed ones, the candy corn would have gone into them a lot better then the regular oreo’s.
Excellent point. That is what I used was the double stuffed.