Yes, yes, yes - it's that time of the year again when Turkeys all around the US are feeling a bit anxious. Thanksgiving is just around the corner ... so use the spirit of the moment to enspire your kids with some homemade turkey (of a different kind). Basically all you need is a bunch of pipe cleaners and you're all set. Here are the instructions.
Things you will need:
1 Pipe Cleaner, light brown 12"
3 Pipe Cleaner, dark brown 12"
5 Pipe Cleaner, any color 6"
* Scissors
* Pencil
* Googly Eyes
Step by step:
1) Take a single dark brown pipe cleaner and twirl it around the pencil, then slide it off of the pencil keeping the spiral shape.
2) Twist the two other dark brown pipe cleaners together to make a thicker one (same length).
3) Twirl the thick dark brown pipe cleaner around the pencil but twirl back over itself to create the body. Slide it off of the pencil keeping the spiral shape.
4) Bend the light brown pipe cleaner in half.
5) Thread the folded end of the light brown pipe cleaner through the thick dark brown spiral for the body and the smaller dark brown spiral for the head.
6) Poke the folded end of the light brown pipe cleaner out of the head about two spirals down from the top. Bend the folded light brown pipe cleaner and twist 90 degrees to form a beak.
7) Bend the two ends of the light brown pipe cleaner so that they are lying under the body of the turkey.
8) Fold both ends of the light brown pipe cleaner into a 1/4 inch zigzag pattern to be the feet. You should have a “W” shape at both ends after four folds.
9) Fold each of the 5 six inch pipe cleaners in half and twist the cut ends together to make each into a narrow loop.
10) Stick the 5 twisted ends into the dark brown body of the turkey near the back to make the tail. You can add glue to the ends before inserting to help hold the tail in place.
11) Glue on googly eyes.
-DeeJay
Check out www.OneMinuteCrafts.com/PipeCleanerTurkey.html for a video demonstration of this craft.
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