Make Monday: Paper Cup Turkeys

At the end of last week, Judah and I made some turkey cups in celebration of Thanksgiving. Our other goal was to practice using glue for this craft.

Supplies

Paper cups
Colored construction paper
Artificial feathers
Craft glue
Q-tips
Scissors
Hole punch
Pom poms
Pencil



Instructions

First we traced Judah's hand onto his choice of construction paper. After mommy cut this out, we used this as a base to glue the feathers onto each finger. Mommy gave Judah a cup with a little bit of glue. Taking a Q-tip, he then dipped it in glue and spread it on each finger of the hand. Once glue was added, he laid a feather of his choice down. To conclude the feathers, we glued the bottom of the hand (the wrist) to one side of the cup. We then made eyes, nose, and mouth out of hole punched dots, pom poms, and little craft eye balls gluing them to the front of the cup. Judah even insisted on adding pom pom cheeks to the side of his turkey.

Variations

We made our turkey design as simple as possible. However, for older kids you could do hidden turkeys. To achieve this you use different size of cups such as a normal paper cup, a Dixie cup, and a nut cup, so that they fit inside of each other. Decorate different sizes of turkeys. Then enjoy playing a game stacking and hiding your turkeys with each other.