recycled cereal box turkeys. <3

For our Thanksgiving craft, we made turkeys out of recycled cereal boxes & paper plates & Popsicle sticks. Super simple, Eco friendly, & my preschooler loved it! Also gave us an opportunity to talk about what we were thankful for!

Basically cut out the cereal boxes or paper plates in circular shapes for the body & the back feathers. Then cut a small circle in half for the arm feathers.

Put them together with glue & add the Popsicle stick. Don't forget to use a marker to draw the eyes & a triangle cut out for the beak.

We used about 5 different cereal boxes of various varieties to make them unique and colorful.

(If you have feathers you could use faux ones on them as well!)

Mayflower craft

This week we are focusing on Thanksgiving. Brought to you by the letters P, T, & M. We had a lot of awesome printable worksheets you can find on the web and we talked / learned all about the Native Americans, what Thanksgiving means, the Pilgrims, & the Mayflower. Our craft this week was to construct the Mayflower.

• Mayflower craft
• cardstock (any color)
• white paper 
• blue construction paper 
• crayons
• scissors
• glue
• We were out of a lot of colors of construction paper (need to restock!!), so we colored a lot of ours, which she really enjoyed
• first, have the child cut out the shapes to make the boat, waves, sails, rods, & flags (you can do it for them of course if they can't use scissors)
• then color the pieces (if necessary) - you may have all the colors of construction paper you need (we even had to color the blue for the sky)
• finally glue them on piece by piece to make the boat 

This was a great project to not only learn about the Pilgrims & the Mayflower, but also to reinforce cutting and glue skills. Finally, I wrote out "The Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower" and she had to write in the "P" for "Pilgrim and the "M" for Mayflower. 

(thanks Pinterest!!)