Turkey Dressed as a Chef Coloring Page

Here is a turkey that has decided to do the cooking. It wears a tall pleated chef hat with a banded brim, holds a wooden spoon up in one wing and has a plain apron tied across its front. A wide fan of feathers spreads out on both sides. The face is friendly and open, with large round eyes and a wattle hanging beneath the beak.

The apron is the best part of this sheet, because it has been left completely blank on purpose. Stripes, spots, checks or a picture drawn straight onto it all work, and a child who invents something there ends up with a page nobody else has. Keep the chef hat white or the palest cream so it stays recognizable as a chef hat, then let the feathers behind carry the strong color.

That pleated hat has a name and a history. It is called a toque, and the folds were once said to number one hundred to represent the many ways a trained cook can prepare an egg. Height traditionally signaled rank in the kitchen, so the tallest hat belonged to the chef in charge.