We have a large supply of magazines at our house to look through and search for pictures in. Recently we searched through the food related magazines for pictures we could use to create a food full turkey. It was a little challenging to find large pictures of food. Why large pictures? I had created feather templates out of an old cereal box that was the size we were going to need to make the turkey’s feathers for our turkey craft and they were pretty large.
Putting Together Our Thanksgiving Craft
We flipped through a number of magazines to find large pictures. Thankfully I had picked up several cooking magazines from the laundry room in my mother in-law’s apartment complex last time we visited her. They are filled with pictures the size we needed. (I had fun just looking through them.)
When all the feathers were in place, the turkey was glued onto a large piece of construction paper and declared done.
When people see the food filled turkey, they will probably notice how pretty he is. They won’t know how many wonderful skills JDaniel used to put it together. He had to search for large pictures, trace feathers and cut them out. He had to determine how much of the feather should be glued to the back of the turkey and how much to have displayed. Deciding how to arrange the feathers also needed to be done. A food full turkey craft provided the opportunity to work on a variety of skills.
What would be a good book to go with this craft?
What an adorable craft! Using the colorful magazine pages for feathers was inspired!! Our all time, absolute favorite Thanksgiving book is “Thanksgiving Is Here” by Diane Goode. It’s just so lovely and the illustrations are beautiful and tell the story perfectly!! –Lisa
Cute turkey! We like the Silly Tilly books.
So true… we take some really basic skills for granted, but they are so critical to employ at that age. JDaniel did a wonderful job, the Turkey looks adorable! 🙂 We havent read Silly Tilly , so off to find it at the library 🙂 thanks for sharing!
-Resh @ Stackingbooks
Today on my way to help out with the second graders I’m going to stop by the library and get this book.. I think Ben would really like reading it as well as making a turkey.. How fun you all have and sharing your ideas..Thanks so much…keeps me creative~! ta ta for now from Iowa:)
We have so many spare magazines in the house that I’d love to try this! I’ve never heard of the book but Scarlet was asking me the other day if there are any good Thanksgiving books out there. I told her I was sure there were, but I didn’t know any!
He has the most enriched life ever. Seriously!
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Awww… it sounds like JDaniel really gets into the books you read together. Glad this book had such a happy ending.
I love Russel and Lillian Hoban! Glad to learn about your Thanksgiving book as it is new to me. And your craft is adorable!!! Mia of PragmaticMom