When
I dropped Poppy off at preschool the other day, one of her teachers was sitting
at the table making the most adorable turkey out of a pinecone, googly eyes and
feathers!
I thought they would make fun placecard holders for
Thanksgiving this year. And, it will be a fun craft to do with the kids while
the grownups are cooking and drinking wine and doing other "not fun"
stuff like doing dishes. These would even be a nice gift to bring your
host/hostess.
Materials:
- Yellow and red felt
- Tacky glue
- Googly eyes
- Brown pom-poms
- Pinecones
- Pipe cleaners
Instructions:
- For each turkey, cut
out a yellow beak and a red wattle from felt. Then glue the beak, wattle,
and a pair of googly eyes onto a pom-pom to create the turkey's head.
- Glue the pom-pom head
to the tip of a pinecone.
- Allow the glue to dry.
- Wrap a pipe cleaner
around the middle of the turkey's cone body, starting from the top and
twisting it together a few times on the underside. Separate the ends of
the pipe cleaner (below the twists) and bend each tip into a 3-toed foot.
- For the turkey's tail,
individually wrap 3 or 4 pipe cleaners around the back of the pinecone,
starting from the underside and twisting them together a few times on the
top of the pinecone to secure them. Then loop both ends of each pipe
cleaner to shape tail feathers.
Happy Crafting!
Source: familyfun.go.com
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