DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids
Food Bank Turkey

contributed by Melisa

"I love this site and tell all my friends and fellow teachers about it.  My school has a food drive every year like a lot of schools do .  This year I made a big turkey for the kids to stuff with food.

Materials:

• construction paper
• feathers
• scissors
• glue
• large, clean trash can
• brown butcher paper
• tape
• markers

Instructions:
  

• First I cut out some big feathers from different colors of construction paper. (about 4X11) -- then I gave them to all the teachers in my center and had the children in their class decorate them with colorful feathers.
• When they gave them back I went to work putting the turkey together.  Take a large clean trash can and wrap it with brown butcher paper.
• Cut out a body for the turkey and attach it to the brown paper.
• Then start taping the feathers that the kids decorated around the body of the turkey.
• I added a face to the turkey, of course (just use markers to draw a simple turkey face on a piece of brown butcher paper).
• Add a sign above that read " Help us stuff the turkey".
• The kids all love it and they look for the feather they decorated. We will see how many days it takes to stuff the turkey.