 | On a paper plate, draw lines with brown, red and orange shades of markers
or pencil crayons, the lines should all cross in the center of the plate.
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| Have the children dip their index finger into brown paint and make
fingerprints here and there on the plate.
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| Optional: let dry at this point -- we never do, but you could.
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| Now have the children dip their pinkie finger into red paint and make a pinkie fingerprint in the center of each index fingerprint
they made in the previous step
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| Set the plates aside to dry.
WHILE THAT'S DRYING, make the body:
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| Print out the template of choice and color if using the B&W
option.
 | I made the body brown, eyes black, gobbler red and beak orange on
the color version. This fairly closely matches real turkey
colors, but you can let the kids get creative when they color in the
B&W version
OR
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| Make your own template pieces by tracing the pieces from the B&W
template onto a piece of cardboard or the lid of a plastic ice cream
container. Cut these out before craft time. Now let the
children trace the pieces onto construction paper
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| Cut out the template pieces.
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| Assemble the body:
| the body is the largest piece -- it looks a bit like a peanut... the
head is the narrow part |
| glue the eyes, gobbler and beak onto the head (you could substitute wiggly eyes for the
template ones or just use a black marker to draw on eyes) |
| glue the feet onto the bottom of the boddy
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| Glue or staple the body to the plate and you're done your turkey! |
