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How to Draw a Turkey Hiding
Draw a turkey hiding in 12 easy steps, about 9 minutes. Free, with a printable worksheet.
Each picture adds one red line. Draw that line, then scroll to the next picture. Rub out any dashed helper lines at the end. First up: the head.
Step 1: The head
Near the top left of your paper, draw a big round head, a little wider than tall.
Tip Leave room on the right and underneath for the body and bush.
Step 2: Beak, wattle and snood
From the head, draw a fat beak back to it. Hang a droopy snood over it, a long wattle under.
Step 3: One big eye
Behind the beak, a finger back, draw a big round eye with a big black dot and a white shine.
Tip Leave a strip of cheek between the beak and the eye.
Step 4: Plump body
Start low on the back of the head. Draw a plump egg body hanging down, and stop at the wattle.
Tip The body is narrower than the head, so the head stays big.
Step 5: Big fan tail
Behind the head and back, draw 5 fat rounded feathers fanning out like an open hand.
Step 6: Folded wing
Start under the middle of the head. Draw a wing curve down and round, stopping on the back.
Step 7: Bush and ground
In front, draw a bush of 7 bumps, low left to low right. Add a ground line edge to edge.
Tip Only the head and tail fan peek out over the bush.
Step 8: Berries
Dot 7 little round berries all over the bush, away from its edge.
Step 9: Yellow beak and fan
Colour the beak yellow, and the second and fourth tail feathers yellow too.
Step 10: Ginger fan, wood wing
Colour the other 3 tail feathers ginger, and the wing light wood brown.
Step 11: Red wattle and berries
Colour the wattle, the snood and the berries red.
Step 12: Brown turkey, green bush
Colour the turkey brown around the wing and wattle, leaving the eye white. Colour the bush green around the berries.
Your finished drawing
Follow the steps above and this is where you end up: a turkey hiding, drawn by you.
Every step in one picture
