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!
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