She's Crafty

A Plump and Perky Turkey

It seems like everyone in Blogland had a turkey craft going on this week. We were no exception!  :)   Don't you love how I make it sound as if there is an actual place called Blog Land. haha  Anyways, before making our paper plate turkey we read some cute turkey books.

Turkeys around Squawk Valley have gotten too smart to just jump into pots anymore for Thanksgiving so the townsfolk come up with a plan to lure one in for their Thanksgiving feast. Unfortunately, the turkey turns out to be smarter than the townsfolk. This was a cute story that both me and the kids enjoyed.

Mrs. Gumm finds a turkey egg and raises the turkey with intentions on eating it for Thanksgiving dinner, but things do not go according to plan. Let's just say Mrs. Gumm has a kind heart!  ;)

To make our paper plate turkey I started by using a craft knife to cut a triangle in the paper plate for a beak.


Then we painted the beak yellow, the face brown, and used a variety of colors to paint feathers around the plate.


When our paint was completely dry, we glued on 2 white circles with googly eyes for the eyeballs and a waddle that I cut out of a red foam sheet.


They turned out so cute! I just love seeing the different colors my boys each chose to decorate their turkey with. And of course I made one too!  :)