
Celebrate the season with our Turkey Needle Felting Kit! This fun and festive kit includes everything you need—alpaca fiber, high-quality wool roving, and detailed step-by-step instructions—to create an adorable felted turkey. Perfect for beginners and experienced crafters, this project is a great way to explore the art of needle felting while crafting a unique decoration for Thanksgiving or fall décor. Whether you’re looking for a creative activity or a handmade gift idea, this kit is sure to inspire and delight. Create a turkey, enjoy the relaxing process of needle felting, and add a touch of handmade charm to your home!
By poking repeatedly with a barbed felting needle you will learn how to create a core shape in the form of a turkey body using an alpaca stuffed nylon knee high, build and attach a neck and head, apply outer colors, create and attach feathers, wings, eyes, a beak, and a wattle.
Needle felting is a simple and fun craft, no knitting, crocheting, or following a pattern required.
Advanced beginner
Scissors
A pencil or felting stick
• Stuffing – clean alpaca fiber (color and type may vary)
• Nylon stocking – to stuff and create core shape
• Yarn - tying off head to create neck
• Corriedale wool roving – primary sculpting fiber
• Dark rrey roving - for covering the Turkey body
• Light grey roving - for covering neck
• Rust roving - for head and feather
• Roving in Variety of Colors - for feathers
• Gold roving – for beak and wings
• Red roving - for wattle
• Black roving - for eyes
• Wool felt - for tail feather backing
• Pattern - for cutting out tail feather backing
• Dense felting foam – approximately 6" × 6"
• Felting needles – 2
• Instructions – detailed, easy to follow, with photos
Made at Alpaca Meadows in Mansfield, Ohio, using natural fibers from our farm and trusted mills.
Felting needles are extremely sharp. Adult supervision is recommended for children under 10.
Prefer to learn with hands-on instruction? For those near Mansfield, Ohio, this project is also offered as a Turkey Needle Felting Class.