While the kids are off school for the Thanksgiving holiday, it is the perfect time to get crafty with them. This is an easy craft so you can enlist the help of your children and allow them to personalize it as well.
Supplies needed:
2 Styrofoam balls (one small and one large)
Toothpicks
Brown paint and a sponge brush or Brown spray paint
Popsicle sticks
Red, white and yellow scraps of felt
2 Push pins (any color, mine were yellow)
Various colors of construction paper
Hot glue gun
Glue Stick
Scissors
Instructions:
1. Take your plain styrofoam balls and prop them up on toothpicks so that you can easily paint them. I used three to help prop each up.
I used brown acrylic paint and a sponge brush, but if you have brown spray paint it might be easier and faster. I used quite a bit of brown paint as you have to push the paint in the ball to cover all the crevices. Allow the balls to fully dry.
2. While you are waiting for the paint to dry, cut out feathers from your construction paper. There isn't a pattern for this, just cut a long oval shape. If you would like the kids to personalize these, they can write what they are thankful for on each feather. Using your glue stick, take a popsicle stick and glue it to the back of each feather.
3. Now cut out two circles from the white felt. Cut out one triangle from the yellow felt and two long ovals (the gobble gobble) from the red felt.
4. Once the paint is dry, stick a popsicle stick in the large ball and connect the smaller ball to it. (This is the neck support). I used a toothpick at first, but it wasn't enough support.
5. Using the hot glue gun, glue on the eyes, nose and gobble gobble to the face of the smaller ball. Push in your colored push pin into the white felt circles to create eyes.
6. Stagger the colors of your feathers and push them into the larger ball. Make sure the popsicle sticks are facing back.
That's it! I hope that you and your children will enjoy this craft and maybe make a few for friends. This would also be a great item for your Thankgiving table. You could have your kids make one for each of your guests and personalize the feathers to what they are thankful for or like most about that person.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving spending time with those you love!
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