Thanksgiving Holiday is a time to gather together and spend quality time with the family; and for us, making crafts allows us to be together while expressing creativity, advancing fine-motor skills, and most importantly, having fun! This ✂️DIY Pipe Cleaners ♻️Paper Mache 🦃Turkey craft is another fun Thanksgiving-Inspired activity children have enjoyed creating.
What you will need:
- ♻️recycled toilet paper roll,
- recycled brown tissue paper for turkey's body (or you can use a different color),
- mache paste for paper mache application (we are using this Mod Podge),
- pipe cleaners to make turkey's tail,
- recycled packing peanuts,
- feathers,
- paint (we are using these washable finger-paints),
- googly eyes,
- pom-poms,
- a glue gun.
Using paper-mache technique, apply tissue paper to cover toilet paper roll.
"He does it with his hands, by experience, first in play and then through work. The hands are the instruments of man's intelligence." – Dr. Maria Montessori, The Absorbent Mind, p. 25.
The child is a worker and a producer. … The child's work belongs to another order and has a wholly different force from the work of the adult. The child’s work is done unconsciously, in abandonment to a mysterious spiritual energy, actively engaged in creation. It is indeed a creative work. Dr. Maria Montessori, 'The Secret of Childhood', Orient Longman Limited, 200.
Insert pipe-cleaners into the packing peanuts to make wings.
We used a glue gun to make pom-poms-mouth.
We also used a glue gun to attach pipe-cleaners to the roll.
Paint the packing peanuts with different colors.
Let the child explore his/her creativity!
While the paint was still wet, Adrian attached the matching color feathers.
Our Thanksgiving Inspired🦃Turkey.
Whether you 🎉celebrate Thanksgiving 🦃holiday or not, the 🗓Month of November is a month of 🙏Gratitude, and I am wishing you a blessed, bountiful and a happy Holiday Season and a Happy 🦃Thanksgiving! There is always something to be thankful for! And it is not the happy people who are thankful, but rather thankful people who are happy. So, I am wishing you much happiness and many special family times this holiday season!
We did another Thanksgiving Craft also using paper mache technique: see here "🙏Thankful 🌳Tree🍂 • 🦃Thanksgiving Inspired ✂️Craft."
For more on holiday-inspired unit study, see here our activities round up "🦃Thanksgiving Inspired Homeschooling 101 Unit Study."
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