Turkey Treats

Hello!!  I hope you all had a fun filled Halloween!  If you are anything like me, you definitely got your fill of chocolate!!  I do not envy all of those poor teachers today... :)

Now that Halloween has passed, I am getting super excited to move onto some Christmas crafting.  You will still have wait just a little bit longer though because the next week will be all about Thanksgiving!

I love celebrating for the holidays but I have never really done much for Thanksgiving.  Our Canadian Thanksgiving is celebrated at the beginning of October and just does not seem to be as big a holiday up here as it is in the States. So this year, with the help of Pinterest, I decided to take on some turkey crafts with the boys!

One of the first projects we made were these turkeys for Connor's class {thanks to Pink Ink Doodle}.  They actually go together really quickly and I think they are pretty cute!

MATERIALS

• tulle {I found some 9" round tulle circles at the dollar store which worked perfectly!}
• Reese's Pieces or M&Ms in fall colors
• pipe cleaners {yellow, orange, brown, and red}
• google eyes
• glue {I used Quick Grip}
• small clear hair elastics {also much cheaper at the dollar store!}

TO DO

• Place your candies in the middle of the tulle circles and secure closed with the elastic bands.  Leave enough excess tulle to form the "feathers" in the back.
• To form the head, cut the brown pipe cleaner to approximately 6 inches.  Roll up the pipe cleaner leaving about 2 inches at the end.  
• Cut a piece of the orange pipe cleaner to form the beak {just over 1 inch}and wrap it around the outer coil of the brown pipe cleaner.

• Cut a red piece of pipe cleaner for the wattle and glue google eyes on either side of the beak.
• For the feet, cut a yellow pipe cleaner to approximately 8 inches and fold the end into three toes.

Now you just have to stick the body parts into your tulle.  Easy peasy!!

These would also be great to decorate up a kids' table.

Gobble! Gobble!

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