turkey decoration craft

when you think of decorating for the holidays you mainly think of Halloween, Christmas, and Easter. what many people don't think of is decorations for thanksgiving. why? because what is there to put out? Halloween has the pumpkins and spooky decorations, Christmas, has the tree and the lights, and Easter has the colorful eggs, but what does thanksgiving have? all I can think are paper hand turkey, but here's another easy craft for kids especially, pipe cleaner and puffball turkeys. my mom made a pipe cleaner when I was younger and so I tried to re-make it except using puffballs instead off all pipe cleaners. my mom's of course looks a lot better but this is a lot easier if like me you aren't good with a lot of pipe cleaners.

Step one: find a small light brown, and a medium dark brown puff ball. (I don't know if they are actually called puff balls, but I'm going to call them that) also find 2 eyes








Step two: use double stick tape to attach small puff ball to larger one to make the head and the body. them use double stick tape to attach the two eyes to the head

Step three: now to make the feathers for the turkey find a variety of colors of your choosing. I have picked out brown, red, and yellow. make each pipe cleaner into a loop proportional to the body and hold them all together at the end. Then wrap a brown pipe cleaner around them all and cut of any extra pipe cleaner.

Step four: use large piece of double stick tape and attach it to brown pipe cleaners on feathers and attach the feathers to the back of the dark brown puff ball.
Step five: use regular tape and wrap it around the back of the feathers to the sides of the dark brown puff ball to secure the feathers.

Step six: next cut a pipe cleaner in fourths to make the wings. take a fourth of the pipe cleaner and bend it into a wing shape

Step seven: wrap a long piece of double stick tape on either ends on the pipe cleaner. then attach to the side of the bigger puff ball so that the tip of the wing is pointing towards the feathers.


Step eight: pick a color for the feet and beak. I chose yellow. make the feet by bending the pipe cleaner to create 3 toes. and tape onto bottom of bigger puff ball

Step nine: use small section of pipe cleaner and bend in half to make a beak. then use a small section of a red pipe cleaner and twist it in to make a gizzard. then tape below and in-between the two eyes.

    well I hope you enjoy making this craft with your family.