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Toilet Paper Roll Turkey
Take a toilet paper tube and cover it with brown construction paper.
Trace child's (both) hands on white paper and let child color feathers.
Cut out hands. Cut thumb off. Glue hands to back of tube. Cut out
peanut shape for head and glue to the front of tube. Use a red piece of
felt to droop down from top of his head. Add googly eyes.
Cornucopia Centerpiece
You will need one newspaper page per fruit or vegetable. Shape the newspaper to be the shape you need for your fruit...
apples, bananas, oranges, carrots, etc. Tape to secure the shape. Mix flour and water in a bowl to create a paste.
Dip strips of newspaper into the paste and completely cover the fruit/vegetables with approximately 3 layers of the strips.
Let dry - this will take a couple of days. Once dry, paint the fruit and vegetables. Let dry and shellac if you wish.
Roll a brown piece of construction paper into a cone shape and staple. Cut thin strips from yellow construction paper and
lay them inside the cornucopia. Place inside the cornucopia in the center of your table and set the fruit and vegetables
so they are inside and flowing out of the cornucopia.
Submitted by Ruth (RUTHJRC)
Tiny Toms
This is one turkey that won't get eaten this Thanksgiving. Your kids can make a flock to decorate the dinner table--or for all the kid guests to take home as favors.
Yellow and red felt
Tacky glue
Googly eyes
Brown pom-poms
Pinecones
Pipe cleaners
Step 1: 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.
Step 2: Glue the pom-pom head to the tip of a pinecone. Allow the glue to dry.
Step 3: 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.
Step 4: 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.
Submitted by Sharon (GRITS4EVR)
From Family Fun
Sugar-Cone Cornucopia
These miniature horns of plenty -- which double as edible name cards -- make striking party favors for a Thanksgiving table.
Sugar cones
Ribbon
Store-bought decorator's icing
Fruit-shaped candies or cereal
Doilies (optional)
Step 1: For each place setting, tie a ribbon around the opening of a sugar cone.
Step 2: With a tube of store-bought decorator's icing and a steady hand, squirt the name of a guest along the side of the cone.
Step 3: Place the cone on a doily-covered saucer. Then fill it with candies, such as raspberry jellies, fruit-shaped sweets, marzipan fruits, candy corn and citrus slices. For an inexpensive alternative, use fruit-shaped cereal. Let the goodies spill out over the opening and around the cone.
Submitted by Sharon (GRITS4EVR)
From Family Fun
Corn-Print Place Mats
Reserve an ear from your cook pot to print a colorful set of these holiday place mats.
Ear of corn
Kitchen knife
Plastic corn cob holders
Fabric paints
Paper plates
Cloth place mats
Step 1: Break an uncooked ear of corn into 2 1/2-inch lengths, coaxing the breaks with a kitchen knife if necessary (adults only). Firmly attach plastic corn cob holders to the ends.
Step 2: Next, pour a few shades of fabric paint onto paper plates. Roll the corn in the paint and then across a cloth place mat (you may want to practice on newspaper or fabric scraps first). Repeat, overlapping patterns and hues.
Step 3: Heat-set the painted place mats according to the manufacturer's directions.
Submitted by Sharon (GRITS4EVR)
From Family Fun
Bulletin Board
Family Feathered Turkey - My favorite thanksgiving day craft is our "Family Feathered Turkey"- I hang a
turkey w/o feathers on our parent board where they enter my dc, and send home a few precut feathers per child,
with instructions to decorate them however they choose-paint, crayons, sickers, collage-and I leave a little excess
at the top to write who made each one (ie "Kate and mom" or Joe's Grandpa.) I add them to the turkey as they come
in, and it makes a lovely display.
Submitted by Beth (RYJACK16)
5 little turkeys standing by door,
One waddled off, and then there were 4.
4 little turkeys under a treee,
One waddled off , and then there were 3.
3 little turkeys with nothing to do,
One waddled off, and then there were 2.
2 little turkeys in the noon day sun,
One waddled off, and then there was 1.
One little turkey better run away,
For soon will come Thanksgiving day.
Mr. Turkey Song
I heard Mr. Turkey say,
Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble,
Soon t'will be Thanksgiving day,
Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble,
People say that it's much fun,
But I think I'll run and run
And hide until the day is done,
Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble,
Mrs Duck and Mr. Turkey
Mrs Duck went to visit Mr. Turkey
And she walked with a wobble, wobble, wobble
She said how do you do to Mr. Turkey
And he answered with a, "Gobble, Gobble, Gobble."
Thank-you
Thank-you for the world so sweet
Thank-you for the food we eat
Thank-you for the birds that sing
Thank-you for everything!
