Turkey crafts Part 2!

Alright here are the rest of the crafts we made for Turkey day :-)

Craft 6:  Toilet Paper tube stamping turkey

So this is pretty easy.The only thing I would change is that I would have Bean stamp a whole piece of paper so the turkey could have a bigger tail.

Craft 7: Tissue paper feathered turkey 2

The hardest part about this was cutting out the feathers :-p  But Bean LOVED this (as evidenced by the pile of feathers her turkey has)   I just gave her glue in a cup with a paint brush and she brushed on glue and put on tissue paper.

Craft 8: Clothespin Feathered Turkey

This one turned out REALLY well!! I had clothespins laying around from hair clippy crafting, but if you don't a pack of about 50 is less than a buck at Wal-Mart.  And I just used cardboard from on the many boxes we have laying around. (So. much. moving. this. summer :-) )  I also had orange and yellow paint from another craft but like the red I had to purchase they are about .50 at Wal-Mart.  So I let Bean paint the clothespins and when they dried she pinned them onto her turkey- great fine motor practice!


Craft 9:  Painted plate turkey

So this guy got a little abstract too.  Bean was not getting the "paint one stripe of color then paint a different stripe of color direction".  She just sort of painted whatever color she wanted, wherever she wanted.  But I like him :-)

Craft 10: Sun catcher Turkey 


So I got the pattern for the turkey outline here: http://www.happyclippings.com/2013/11/diy-tissue-paper-stained-glass-turkeys-kids-craft.html.  You have to cut out the whole tail feather shape and then cut out and outline.  Then you just lay it on the sticky side of contact paper and let the children stick tissue paper inside the lines.  I think it might have been better if I had put the turkey body inside of the line and then let Bean put the tissue paper on.  That way you could see the outline for the tail feathers better.



So there you go! 10 turkey crafts for less than 30 bucks- which sounds like a lot but I didn't spend that all at once and I still have a TON of this stuff left for other crafts.  In addition to the supplies I bought I also had these supplies at home already:

• Paper plates - $1-2 
• yellow, orange and brown paint - $0.50 each so $1.50
• Clothespins - $1 
• Toothpicks- $1 
• Beads- $3-4 
• Huge pack of paper $7 

So in total these "cost" me 35ish bucks but I still have a lot of stuff left from these projects so I think that counts as less than 30 bucks :-) The initial cost can be daunting but to me its worth it to spend some time with your kids, especially one who LOVES crafts :-) Plus I usually pick crafts that she can do portions of with very little direction.  That way if I need to I can step away and trust that she can handle it.  

Keep an eye out of for our Christmas crafts! 

Turkey Crafts!!

So I've been doing a new thing lately- inspired some by another blog I follow and also born of a desire to be more present with my girls.  I know that I spend all day with them but I'm trying to be more present and more intentional about spending time with them.  So I've been picking crafts off my Pinterest boards and actually doing them with Lizzie ;-0 (What??? Actually do the things I have pinned to Pinterest??? Crazy talk.  But seriously?? I need to :-p )

So I'm going to share our experiences, what works and doesn't work, and about how much it cost us.  I was surprised how much cute stuff we made for so cheap and I think you will be too!  This post will be long since I wanted to break it into more parts and post but time got away from me and I want to start our Christmas craft blogs soon.  So I'll stuff these all into 1 and then do shorter posts for Christmas crafts. Or I might do each month in 1 post... who knows! I'm trying to make it through Christmas in 1 piece so I'm feeling fuzzy brained :-p

Here we go! So after I picked the crafts I wanted to do I made a list of the things I needed to finish them. So here's what I got:

I got: 

• Googly eyes
• 3 packages of tissue paper (red, orange and yellow)
• Finger paint
• Twisty noodles
• Red Paint
• Contact Paper
• Paint chips (FREE :-)) 

We ended up not using the paint chips or twisty noodles because... life happens but they weren't crazy expensive and noodle play is still fun any day. I spent 20 bucks for all this and we did not use all of it! We are using some of the paint, tissue paper and contact paper for this month's crafts. I'll also let you know what I had around the house and about how much it cost.  

Craft 1: Ring Feathered Turkey

So in posting this picture I see the fundamental mistake-  I did not cut the middle out of our plate, so Bean was able to stick her "feathers" anywhere... Still cute!   The hardest part was gluing the strips into rings.  It was good for her fine motor skills though as she had to pinch the ring to glue it.  We had paper plates and construction paper around the house for this craft. A pack of paper plates are about 1-2 bucks and I bought this HUGE pack of construction paper at Wal-Mart in the Back to School Section clearance for 7 bucks. I can't find a regular price for it but a normal pack of construction paper is 5 bucks.

Craft 2: Finger print feather turkey 

Super easy, but with a 3 year old not very accurate.  Maybe if she had seen an example??? Still cute though.

Craft 3 : Fine motor skills Bead Feather Turkey

OK, first of all the picture from Pinterest LIES!! The ball will not just sit there like that.  Hence the reason our turkey has legs :-)  This one was ok... Bean put on a couple beads and then lost interest and I had to convince her to finish it. Even with the legs it was super unstable.  I added hot glue to the top of the bead when she was done to keep them on.  We also painted the ball before adding the feathers.  We had tooth picks around the house ( a buck at Wal Mart), brown paint ( .50 at Walmart) and we always have bead lying around ( you can usually get them for about 3 bucks at Wal Mart).  

Craft 4:  Half paper plate tissue paper feathered turkey 

This one got a little abstract because I got distracted with Bug, but I like it! :-) I gave Bean a cup with glue in it and a paint brush ( I have since switched to glue sticks- easier and less clean up) and then she was to paint some glue on and stick on some tissue paper.  Since she was good with that I was feeding Bug in the other room, when I came back she had glued the eyes, gobbler, feet and beak where she saw fit.  Ah... crafts with 3 year olds :-)  We used a half a paper plate from our stack of plates in the pantry :-)

Craft 5: Turkey hat

So Bean just colored the "feathers" on this turkey. The rest was really simply (except now I can see that the legs needed to be glued on behind- oh well) but Bean won't wear the hat :-(  We used paper from the pack and the other half of the plate from the tissue paper turkey.


Alright I'm going to split this into 2 parts, so keep and eye out for part 2!