How To Draw A Turkey Step By Step For Kids

Drawing a turkey sounds simple, but some steps help you draw a turkey in some simple steps. In this tutorial, we are learning how to draw a turkey for kids. 

In this tutorial, we will show you step by step drawing of a turkey for kids. Especially this tutorial is for kids and beginners.

Art Materials & Equipment

• Pencil
• Paper
• Marker
• Pencil Color
• Eraser (Erase If Made Mistake)
• Sharpener (To Sharp Pencil)
• Compass (Alternative)

Steps To Draw A Turkey

This article is about all species of turkey. For its meat, see Turkey as food. For other uses, see Turkey as Birds.

The turkey is a large bird in North America. There are two extant turkey species: the wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) of eastern and central North America and the ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) of the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.

Males of both turkey species have a distinctive fleshy wattle, called a snood, that hangs from the top of the beak. They are among the largest birds in their ranges. As with many large ground-feeding birds (order Galliformes), the male is bigger and much more colourful than the female.

A male ocellated turkey (Meleagris ocellata) with a blue head
The earliest turkeys evolved in North America over 20 million years ago and they share a recent common ancestor with grouse, pheasants, and other fowl. The wild turkey species is the ancestor of the domestic turkey, which was domesticated approximately 2,000 years ago.

Follow the steps below to easily draw a turkey step by step.

Step 1

We are starting by drawing an oval (Egg) like-shape in the middle and after that, at the right side of the oval (Egg) draw two straight lines and at the top of the straight line draw a small circle as shown in the drawing. ( Roughly )

Step 2

Now, draw the head part, first of all, draw (^)like shape for the eyebrows, vertical (M)like shape on the left side of the head and draw beak of the turkey and at the side of that joint lines with curved lines as shown in the drawing below. ( Roughly )

Step 3

Then, draw Wattle of the turkey below the beak and draw a long thin neck as shown in the drawing below. ( Fairly )

Step 4

Similarly, now draw Caruncles on the sides of the neck of the turkey as shown in the image below. ( Fairly )

Step 5

Then, now for the turkey body part, draw a curve line at the top of the back of the body, similarly in the below of the body also, and draw the left wings as shown in the drawing below. ( Fairly )

Step 6

Again, now draw right wings with three wings coverts as shown in the drawing below. ( Fairly )

Step 7

Similarly, draw two legs, starting with drawing a hock and after that draw shank after that end it by drawing three claws in both the legs as drawn below. ( Fairly )

Step 8

Now, for the tail part, draw four tail-coverts on the right side as in the image.

Step 9

Similarly, now again draw turkey tail covers at the left side till the end, you can also add according to your choice and draw according to it.

Step 10

Similarly, now erase the rough lines which we have drawn in the earlier step (Step 1).

Step 11

Lastly, draw the cute eyes of the turkey as in the drawing and in the mouth draw the small line for the tongue of the turkey, and draw according to it.

Colouring a Turkey

After the drawing of the cute turkey is completed we move forward with colouring the turkey. For colouring, we had chosen some basic colours. You can fill colour according to our wish too.

Colour Details:

1. Black
2. White
3. Yellow
4. Skin

Final Image of Turkey

After colouring, we get a cute turkey. You can use a pencil colour(We made it digital).

Great Job 

Finally, we draw a cute turkey and colour it beautifully. I hope you find our tutorial easy.

This is how you can draw a turkey for beginners easily with a stepwise tutorial for kids. Comment below if you find our tutorial helpful and suggest “NAME” if you have any requests or you have any problems while drawing it.