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!