Paint chip turkeys

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I had grabbed a few paint samples the last time I was at Walmart.  (Side note: I probably should have asked if they had any discontinued paint chips I could have, rather than just taking a few of each color.  My kids ask for paint samples every. single. time. we got to Walmart, and they never seem to care, so I didn't think of it.  But it's probably good to ask, and don't ever clean them out.)

So, I've been looking for some colorful uses for them.  We've already done Christmas trees, which are DARLING.  Then I saw a pin for these turkeys, and knew what our next craft would be.

(Okay, so they're peacocks, not turkeys.  Close enough.  You could add a red waggle to make them more turkey-like.)

I painted a paper towel tube a couple of days ago and let it dry.  You could have your kids do that part, but it will take a while to dry.  You could also glue scrapbook paper to the tube; how cute would that be?  Anyway, we started with two painted tubes (I cut the paper towel tube in half.)

Fan out the paint samples; glue the layers of samples together at the bottom.  

Run a line of glue on the back of the paper tube.  Glue it to your "feathers."

Add a beak and some google eyes, and you're done!

Lily insisted that hers needed a pink tutu, so there you go. :)

Handprint Turkey

Lily had been asking for about two hours to do a turkey craft, but I didn't feel like pulling out the paint so I couldn't find one on Pinterest to fit the bill. (Though I did find other crafts that used elements of this one, because hey, this is glue and construction paper, not rocket science.)

So, I decided that instead of making paint handprints, we'd trace the hands and turn this into a construction paper and glue craft.

I traced the kids' hands on orange construction paper (How do we have NO brown construction paper?!  How can a pack of construction paper contain NO brown?!  But I digress..)  I decided to make a left and a right, so there would be two turkeys on the finished craft.  Then I snipped out various colors of construction paper into basic feather shapes. Lily and Jack each chose a background color of paper, and I drew two dots to show them where they should glue their feathers.  I think if I had it to do over, I'd draw lines going out from the dot and tell them to put their feathers on the line.  It would just make it easier.  Anyway, they pasted down a few feathers for each turkey, and then I helped them to glue their handprint on top.  We added beaks and google eyes, and they each drew little turkey legs.

With a little more prep beforehand (cutting out the feathers, getting the google eyes etc) this craft would have gone more smoothly.  But I was happy with how it turned out, and the kids got their turkey craft. :)