Pumpkin Turkey Centerpiece - eagletromsented

I noneffervescent had few uncarved pumpkins left over from Halloween, so I thought it would constitute fun to use them for a Thanksgiving centerpiece. I think this would be cute at the kids' set back happening turkey day. My three year-grey-headed son helped Maine with this project (by and large with gluing and cutting up my scrap newspaper publisher when I was done with information technology), and he was thus crazy about it and proud when we finished it.

I busted into my stash for the supplies for this. You should be able to inexact up block from your hoard to comprehensive it, too. Zero need to corrupt anything new! I was mentation near it, and I have had this scrapbooking paper since about 1999… time to enjoyment it operating theatre lose it!

Externalize Materials:

• Pumpkin with a tall, straight prow
• 3 pieces of card stock (I utilised 2 red and 1 Orange River)
• Scrapbooking paper, 2 sheets (8.5 x 11) or 4 half-sheets (I used a "bitty Scrap Pad")
• Scissors
• Mucilage (I used Elmer's stick glue for the paper and Aleene's Quick Dry Trashy Glue for gluing to the pumpkin)

Making the feathers:

• Fold 2 sheets of plug-in stock in half and and then in half over again (so you birth a eternal, skinny piece, as shown). I used one red and one orange sheet.
• Draw a feather configuration connected the paper
• Cut impossible feathers (you should have 8 after you are finished with both sheets of card stock)

• Turn up the sheets of scrapbooking newspaper the assonant way you did the card stock. (If you are victimization fractional-sheets of scrapbooking paper, you testament only fold them in half once)
• Trace one of your cut out feathers onto the exterior sheet of scrapbooking paper, then draw a smaller square shape inner the traced outline.
• Cut down scrapbooking paper on the smaller outline.

• Glue scrapbooking paper feathers to card stock feathers.

Making the Republic of Turkey Head:

• Staple OR tape back of turkey together. You bequeath miscue this bomb straits over the root word of the turkey.

Assembling the Turkey:

• Make sure the pumpkin is clean and dry.
• Decide what arrangement you want your feathers to offer in. I alternated crimson and orange feathers, and only used seven of them.4
• Gum the feathers, one at a time to the ugliest side of the pumpkin.

My son really liked the gluing process. I think he got the feathers mixed dormie, but hey, it's supposed to be merriment, not mint.

Broom Mann is a regular subscriber at Shuffling and Takes. She's is the mother of three boys, ages 3, all but 2, and newborn. She publishes Dollar Store Crafts, a daily web log dedicated to hip crafting at dollar storehouse prices, CROQ Zine, a print magazine dedicated to hip crafting, and also CraftFail, a community blog that encourages crafters to share their not-so-victorious craft attempts.

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