Gratitude Turkey

This craft was inspired by Little Family Fun As I promised in the Burlap Foam Board post yesterday -- here is our craft we created to put on this fun board.  ::Gratitude Turkey:: What a great way to get the kids involved in crafting as well as being reminded of how thankful we should be for all of our things!  It's also a great tradition to start for all families during this season.   

Spencer and I worked on this project together…he gave me his "opinions" of what he wanted his turkey to look like and insisted that I cut it out on my cricut.  You could also draw it free hand or find a template online.  I used card stock for our turkey but brown construction paper would work too.  Supplies I used to create our turkey:

• brown card stock for turkey body
• turkey pattern (I used the "black-out" feature on Animal Kingdom by Cricut cutting out turkey body, beak and red thing-ee under turkey's beak) 
• red, blue, orange, green, purple card stock for feathers
• feather pattern -- I just drew free hand.
• I hand cut two feet out of card stock
• face for turkey - Peachy Keen Stamps
• Sixxix Originals Die - Frame
• various markers for doodling

I laminated the turkey for extra durability and so our family can use it for years to come.  =)

To attach our turkey and "thankful" feathers to the burlap board we used thumb tacks.  We tried glue dots and poster puddy but those didn't stick to the burlap.

If you like my Burlap Foam Board -- click here to see the tutorial.

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