Make a Turkey Vegetable Tray for Thanksgiving! These turkey veggie trays are a fun ideas for a Thanksgiving table or healthy fall party food.
This delicious turkey shaped vegetable snack board is perfect for anyone looking to add a little variety and cuteness to their fall party food spread. And best of all, it’s easy to make!
Turkey Vegetable Tray for Thanksgiving
It’s never too early to start planning your Thanksgiving dinner! I came up with this Turkey Vegetable Tray fun food idea years ago at Thanksgiving after being inspired by some amazing creative veggie trays I found online.
We had Thanksgiving dinner at my aunt’s house, the one who makes the best homemade pickles, and I was in charge of appetizers.
Each year, my family serves sliced vegetables, pickles and olives. Instead of using the usual glass bowls, I grabbed a plate and started creating a turkey out of the vegetables. I think he turned out pretty cute!
I hope this Turkey veggie tray inspires you to do something creative with your family meal this Thanksgiving.
Easy Thanksgiving Appetizer Snack Board
Appetizers and vegetables can be exciting if you just add a dash of creativity!
We love making this cute Turkey Vegetable Tray for Thanksgiving! It’s a great way to get both kids and adults to eat their veggies.
I had fun recreating it over the years. Here’s my most recent photo of this cute turkey!
Turkey Vegetable Snack Board
Viral Turkey Veggie Tray Idea
My turkey veggie tray was around well before the charcuterie board became popular. The best part, is that this fun turkey appetizer has turned into a Thanksgiving family tradition for so many other people now!
I love seeing your photos of my fun food recipes! Long time reader, Megan, wrote me such a nice note.
“Your beautiful turkey has become a Baum family tradition! Long time reader of your blog. I get so many wonderful ideas and inspiration from you. Keep crafting and making things cute and festive!” ~ Megan
I’m so happy Megan shared her veggie tray photos from some past Thanksgivings! How cute are her turkey tray photos below…
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Thanks so much for making my year with your turkey vegetable tray photos Megan! I’m so happy to know that I help bring joy into other’s homes.
Now that’s something to be thankful about! Happy Thanksgiving!
How to make a simple Turkey Veggie Tray
Why not give it a try? Your guests will love it! I hope you enjoy this easy creative recipe idea for Thanksgiving.
Make sure to share your photos on Instagram with the hashtag #LivingLocurto and tag us at @LivingLocurto so we can see!
Originally Published on October 1, 2012
Turkey Vegetable Tray
Ingredients
- 1 dill pickle
- 1 whole carrot
- ½ cup sliced pickles
- ½ cup celery sticks
- ½ cup carrot sticks
- ½ cup radishes sliced
- ¼ cup grape tomatoes
- ¼ cup black olives
- ¼ cup green olives
- 1 sprig of celery
Instructions
- Slice a carrot and pickle in half. Then cut one side to make a flat surface.
- Place the pickle on the bottom right corner of a large platter.
- Place the carrot on top of the pickle.
- Begin adding radishes, olives and tomatoes in bunches to form the Turkey’s body.
- Add sliced pickles, celery and carrots for wings.
- Cut turkey feet from carrots and place onto plate.
- Add the celery sprig for more feathers.
- Cut an eye out of a black olive and place onto carrot.
- Cut a triangle out of a radish for the beak.
- Slice another radish for the Turkey’s snood. (The red thing on the turkey’s chin:-)
- Cover and refrigerate your Turkey veggie tray or serve right away.
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more fun Vegetable tray ideas for Thanksgiving
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Check out the 10 Creative Vegetable Trays that inspired me to make this fun turkey vegetable tray!
Yay! I hope everyone enjoyed it! Happy thanksgiving!
Made this for the first time for our large family Thanksgiving dinner. Such a fun and cute idea, thank you!
very cute idea will try this thanksgiving
Awesome Platters for Thanksgiving!
Such a fun idea! Love it.
Very cute! This will definitely be an addition to our Thanksgiving!
Love this and am featuring on my fb page tomorrow!
How big is the tray/plate that hold the turkey? Need a starting place…..
Thanks for sharing your creativity. This will be fun to do.
Loving these! Can’t wait to make one for Thanksgiving! I’d try a Halloween one too, but for some ‘strange’ reason, I just don’t think my kids will be eating many veggies that night! 😉 Thanks for sharing!
That turkey just put a smile on my face! Too cute!
Such a cute idea – I love it!!!
xoxoxo
Thanks Amanda. Yes, it’s a super easy “no bake” fun food idea for kids!
Very cute!! I would have never thought of doing that! My kids will have fun putting this together. Thanks!
the tray is great and thanks for sharing the 10 other ones too.