Pinecone Turkeys Galore!

Today my grandson, Tray and I made pinecone turkeys. He's 2-years-old going to be 3 next month so it was kind of tricky using hot glue around him. So, I did most of them and saved two for him to do. We did ten of them. You'll notice one of them has Avah, that's Tray's sister. In the picture there's only eight because Tray and I haven't did the other two together. Yesterday when I mentioned we would be making pinecone turkeys, he got really excited but it didn't last long because today, he didn't get to participate as much since we were using hot glue. :( Also the corner thing on the counter you see with tape is a bumper I made so Tray won't hurt himself. It's right at eye level so I taped the corner off with paper and tape to cushion it just incase he hits it.

If you'd like to make them, it's really quite simple. Here's how Tray and I did ours.

Supplies

• 10 Pinecones
• 100 multi-color popsicle sticks cut in half
• 10 baby food jar lids
• 10 1/4" strips of scrapbook paper'
• 10 ribbon bows
• 20 orange sticky foam feet
• 10 orange sticky foam beak
• 10 brown felt circles diameter of jar lids
• 20 beads or small seashells for eyes
• glue sticks
• black paint marker
• glue gun
• orange and green paper tape
• ink pen

Directions

1. Attach strips of paper around side of lids.
2. Attach bows to front side of lids.
3. Stick the feet on edge of lid right above the bows.
4. Attach felt on top of lids.
5. Attach pinecones on lids.
6. Attach popsicle sticks in randoms places toward back of bird.
7. Attach eyes in front and paint pupil on each eye.
8. Attach beaks.
9. Write random sayings on paper tape, fold tape to adhere to the sticks.

Everything is attached with hot glue except foam which is already sticky.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate and thanks for reading. Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!