This is our Turkey.
His name is .. uh .. Thankful Turkey!
Yeah, that's it. Thankful Turkey.
We (we, meaning my children and I) made Thankful Turkey this morning.
I saw this really beautiful fabric tree in a Pottery Barn Kids catalog. The tree was covered in numbered pockets so that every day in November, children could put a piece of paper in it saying what they were thankful for.
I was so in love with the item until I saw the price tag at $69!
I knew I could make something myself, and why a tree?
What's more representative of Thanksgiving than a turkey?
So off I went to get construction paper, glue & scissors.
I free-handed the entire thing.
I did a semi-circle on two different pieces of brown paper to make his body.
I grabbed a sheet of paper in various colors for the feathers.
A quarter of a sheet of brown paper for the head. (Which I think is still too oval, but oh well!)
A scrap piece of red paper for the jiggly thing below his head. (Haha. Jiggly thing - you know you like that name!)
I drew on the eyes and used scrap paper for the mouth and tiny legs.
I put another piece of brown paper (cut to match up with the body) for the "pocket".
PS, I attached everything with Tacky Glue (my favorite!).
Right after I completed it and hung it up, I sat with my babies and asked them what they were thankful for.
Dylan promptly responded with "Mater & Acer" - two of his birthday gifts he got last night that he was playing with when I asked him about this.
And Emma kept saying "I don't know. I don't know" until I gave her some examples. Then she told me her "babydoll". Haha. Silly kids!
But I'm very happy with it.
It didn't cost me a dime and I was able to construct it in no time!
I hope you enjoy!
