SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Small white paper plates
- Assorted yarns in fall colors: orange, red, green, yellow, brown
- Fuzzy pipe cleaners
- Google eyes
- Pompoms
- Plastic needles
- Paper punch
- Hot glue gun or white craft glue
- Wire cutters
- Scissors
DIRECTIONS:
- On the paper plate, make punch holes around the perimeter of the plate about 1" into the plate. Cut a long piece of the brown yarn (30") and thread the plastic needle. With a big knot at the end of the thread. Come up through the backside of the plate and make cross patterns on the plate with the brown yarn. Once you have filled up the plate with the brown yarn, thread it through the last hole and tie it into a knot on the backside of the plate and then snip off the end of the thread.
- Using the brighter colors for the pom tail feathers, take one color yarn, and loop it around three fingers, 4 times. Pull out your middle finger and tie the loop in the middle with another piece of 4" yarn to make a pom. Leave tails on the yarn so that you can tie them onto the plate. Repeat, making the yarn poms for each color of yarn (you may want to make multiple poms of the same color).
- At the top of the plate, thread the tails of the yarn to the backside of the plate and tie on each pom. Glue a pile of brown pompoms at the bottom of the plate for a base and support for the head.
- Make the head, neck and feet of the turkey with a fuzzy yellow pipe cleaner.
- Find the middle of the pipe cleaner and twist it to form the head. Go down about 3" and twist again to form the neck. Push the two ends through two holes at the bottom of the plate.
- Cut two pieces, 2" long of the fuzzy orange pipe cleaners and fold them into triangles for feet. Glue onto the ends of the yellow cleaner legs.
- Make a gobbler out of the red fuzzy pipe cleaner and glue to the right side of the face letting it trail beside the neck.
- Glue the google eyes on top of the gobbler and the yellow pipe cleaner at the face.
- Take another plate and cut out the body of the neck to go behind the open areas of the head and neck. This will help for support. Glue it to the pile of brown pompoms and the backside of the neck and head.
JOANN HACKS:
- Tie the knots on the backside of the plate so that you can't see them from the front.