Making turkeys for 2010

Yesterday was one of those "stay inside with some hot cocoa because it's miserable outside" kind of day. So we made hand & foot turkeys. First we traced the outline of Meredith's feet and then we cut them out to use for the turkey's body.





Meredith actually sat still for this part. Then she helped cut them out. Her teacher said that she should start using scissors. No matter what I did or what I showed her about using a scissor, she still couldn't grasp the idea. It didn't matter. She had fun.



Then we traced & cut out the outline of Meredith's hands to use as feathers.





We then glued the outsides of the feet together at the heel and the hands together at the wrist making sure all the fingers were separate. Meredith glued the pieces together & then glued the feathers to the back of the body; wrists to heels.











Then we cut triangles from the hand outlines out to use as the wattle on the turkey's neck.





Meredith glue this on and then we glued on the eyes. The eyes we had left over from a past project. You can easily draw eyes with a white crayon, paint eyes or use foam shapes. Then we hung them up.









Today was Sean's turn.