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One-minute DIY projects - Turkeys (part 2)

My children and I love to make crafts using our hands and feet. This turkey for Thanksgiving is a creative way to use your hands and feet shapes. You can make this turkey into a sort of seasonal decoration to bring out every year for Thanksgiving by framing it or by gluing it onto an art canvas.

Things you will need:
3 Sheets of Colorful Felt
1 Sheet of Brown felt
Scrap Orange Felt
Googly Eyes
Scissors
Marker
Craft Glue
Note: Paper can be substituted for the felt

1) On the brown felt, trace with a marker the right and left foot with the toes together.
2) Cut the two feet out of the brown felt.
3) On the three colorful felts, trace with a marker the right and left hands with the fingers spread.
4) Cut out all six hands.
5) Using scrap felt, cut a small orange triangle about 1/2 X1/4 inch in size for the beak. Also, cut two identical orange triangles about 1 1/2 X 1 inch in size for the feet.

One-minute DIY projects - Turkeys (part 1)

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.

Father's Day activity with your kids - Daddy's Shoe Keepsake

4 days to go to Father's Day and if you're stuck for ideas on what to do with your kids - check this out!

This year on Father's Day, why not make a keepsake with your child along with a fun memory? Your child will love the idea of getting to paint something that normally we would say “NO!” to. Even better, the little DIY project will create a wonderful memory of doing something with your child on Father's Day. You can hang it up as a piece of art (and sell it for millions in a few years when your offspring is famous).

You will need:
* Construction paper (white or a light color)
* WASHABLE Paint (1 color for each shoe)
* Sponge or paintbrush
* Daddy's left shoe (yes, that's YOU ... take off your left shoe ... do it now!)
* Left shoe from each child

Step by step instructions:
1) First find a place where you can be worry-free with paint (I'm sure you know what we mean by that).

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