Pinecone Turkeys
Difficulty: Easy
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Parental supervision is recommended
Give Thanksgiving dinner guests a unique take-home place card with these pinecone turkeys. Besides the pinecones, some different colored pipe cleaners are pretty much all kids need to craft the time away while the turkey cooks.
What you'll need:
- Plump pine cones (spherical shaped about one to one an half inches diameter)
- One red bumpy pipe cleaner (chenille stem)
- One orange bumpy pipe cleaner
- Five other colors of bumpy pipe cleaners
- Glue (craft, wood, or all-purpose that dries clear)
- Wire Cutter
How to make it:
- Make sure each pine cone has dried thoroughly.
- Cut the bumps apart in each chenille wire. Using wire cutters, cut in the center of each place where the wire narrows down—you want the bumps whole and fluffy.
- Take one red bump and shape into an 'S'. Glue this to the rounded end of the cone with the bump protruding somewhat above the cone for the head of the turkey.
- Take one orange bump and shape into a 'V'. Glue this under the bottom of the round part of the cone for the legs and feet. The feet can be shaped later. Toes can even be added.
- Take five to seven other bumps and carefully bend them so the narrow ends can be twisted together leaving the puffy end somewhat rounded. Glue as many of these as nicely fits close to the flatter stemmed end of the pinecone remembering to use glue only on the twisted end of the chenille wire.
- Let dry and then adjust shaped of chenille wires to make your turkey look more realistic.
Tips:
If you would like to use these as napkin rings, cut the orange chenille wires longer and make them into a circle and glue circle on bottom of turkeys.
