Thanksgiving Turkey Napkin Holder

CRAFT MATERIALS:
Flat wooden craft spoons
Tempera or acrylic paints
Paper towel tube
Scissors
Orange pipe cleaners
Black marker
Tacky glue
Red felt
Time needed: Under 1 Hour
1. Five craft spoons are required for each ring. Using tempera paint, color one of them yellow for the turkey's head, the others, a variety of colors (they'll be used for tail feathers). 2. For the turkey's body, cut a 2-inch section from a cardboard paper towel tube and paint it brown. 3. From orange pipe cleaners, shape a pair of short legs with three-toed turkey feet. Fit the legs through small holes in the cardboard tube, bending the tips inside the tube to secure them. 4. Use a marker to draw eyes on the face and use tacky glue to attach a red felt wattle. 5. Finally, glue the head to the front of the body and the tail feathers to the back.
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Turkey Cupcakes

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RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
24 frosted cupcakes
24 Nutter Butter cookies
2-3 tablespoons of white frosting or decorator's gel
Mini chocolate chips
Fruit leather, various flavors and colors
toothpicks
1. To make each turkey, press the lower portion of a Nutter Butter cookie into a frosted cupcake for the bird's head.

2. Use tiny dabs of frosting to stick on mini-chocolate chip eyes and a red fruit leather wattle.

3. For each turkey's tail, use a butter knife to cut out a dozen feather shapes (about 3 inches long and 1 inch wide) from fruit leather.

4. Lay 6 of the feather shapes on a flat surface and place a wooden toothpick lengthwise atop each so that one end of the toothpick extends about an inch below the feather. Layer another fruit leather feather layer atop each of the 6 shapes, sandwiching the toothpicks between them.

5. Press the 2 layers together to make them stick, then fringe the edges of the feather with a butter knife. Now your child can stick the colored feathers into the cupcake behind the cookie head.