Sunday, November 20, 2011

Gobble, Gobble: a Craft for Dolls

 I haven't done a craft in a while so I decided to share another one. Today we are making a turkey hat. You will need-
1 3oz plastic cup
craft glue
elastic
hole punch
scissors
2 googly eyes
tan or brown construction paper
green, yellow, orange, and red construction paper
(You do not, however, need a Mini-Grace. She has grown on me and has become my little friend.)
 First you are going to have to punch two holes in your cup, each one directly across from the other. These holes need to be close to the opening of the cup.
 Next you are going to cut off a small piece of elastic, 6 inches should be enough.
 You will have to loop the eleastic through each hole and tie them off with knots. It should fit nicely on your head.


Next you are going to cut out your tan paper into this shape.(I'm not really sure what this shape is? A rounded off rectangle?)
Wrap the paper around your cup and glue it on. Make sure that it goes just between your two holes.
Now you are going to cut out the feathers. They are kind of shaped like triangles.
Once you get them all cut out, then you need to decide how you want them to be arranged. I did mine in a red-yellow-orange-green pattern.
Glue all of the feathers onto the opposite side as your tan piece.
Next you are going to have to cut out the gobble from your red paper. It should look something like in the picture above.
You glue the gobble onto the center of your tan paper. You will also need to cut out a triangle for his beak(I took the liberty to draw on a mouth) and glue it on top of the top part of the gobble. You will also need to take your  googly eyes and glue them on above the beak.
Even though this picture is very dark, it allows you to see a clear view of the finished project.  I honestly think it looks a little dork-chic. MGL told me I just looked like a dork so I am going to wear it all through Thanksgiving dinner just to mess with her. Have a very happy turkey day!(please don't get trampled on Black Friday)

1 comment:

  1. Cute craft, thanks for sharing it, we might have to try that and wear them at our cousins. If the clay food does not work out that would be a good change for us. LOL!!

    Hugs,
    Taryn

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