Turkey Coloring Pages

Choose a turkey coloring page and start with the best part, the tail. We have round cartoon turkeys with fanned feathers, realistic wild turkeys strutting through the woods, fluffy baby turkeys and turkeys in scarves. On the blank-feather pages, each tail feather is an empty space waiting for a pattern, a color or a word. They're a Thanksgiving classroom favorite, and they also fit a bird or farm unit any time of year.

Turkey coloring page styles

  • Cartoon turkeys: round bodies, big eyes and five or six wide tail feathers that are easy to fill
  • Realistic wild turkeys: a male in full strut with layered feathers, a beard and a bare head
  • Blank-feather turkeys: empty tail feathers for patterns, color words, math facts or things you're thankful for
  • Baby turkeys: fluffy poults following a hen across the farmyard
  • Funny turkeys: turkeys in sweaters, reading books or holding a sign that says eat pizza
  • Turkey heads: a close-up of the beak, the snood and the wattle drawn large
  • Farm scenes: turkeys by a barn, on a fence and pecking through a field

Turkey facts and the colors to use

Wild turkeys are native to North America. A male is called a tom or gobbler, a female is a hen and a chick is a poult. Only the males gobble and fan their tails. The red flap that hangs over the beak is the snood, and the skin under the chin is the wattle. Wild turkeys can fly short distances and roost in trees at night, while heavy farm turkeys stay on the ground.

For a realistic bird, color the body dark brown with bronze and black bands across the tail and a lighter tip on each feather. The head is bare and bluish, and the wattle is red. Most farm turkeys are white. For a cartoon turkey, anything goes. Red, orange, yellow and brown is the classic set, and rainbow tails are popular too.

Turkey activities

  • Disguise a turkey: a well-known classroom project. Kids draw a costume over a plain turkey so it can hide before Thanksgiving, then write about the disguise.
  • Thankful feathers: write one thing you're grateful for on each blank feather.
  • Handprint tail: trace a hand behind a turkey body cut from the page and color each finger as a feather.
  • Skip counting: number the feathers by twos, fives or tens before coloring.

Frequently asked questions

Are these turkey coloring pages free?

Yes. Every turkey coloring page here is free to print and download for personal and classroom use.

What color is a turkey?

Wild turkeys are dark brown with a bronze and green shine, banded tail feathers, a bluish bare head and a red wattle. Farm turkeys are usually white. Cartoon turkeys can be any colors you like.

Do you have a colored turkey example to copy?

The pages are line art only, so the choices are yours. A simple plan is brown for the body, then red, orange and yellow repeating across the tail feathers, with a red wattle and a yellow beak.

Do you have cute or baby turkey coloring pages?

Yes. Pages marked Easy have chubby cartoon turkeys and fluffy baby turkeys with thick outlines and large spaces.