I busted into my stash for the supplies for this. You should be able to round up stuff from your stash to complete it, too. No need to buy anything new! I was thinking about it, and I have had this scrapbooking paper since about 1999… time to use it or lose it!
Project Materials:
Pumpkin with a tall, straight stem 3 pieces of card stock (I used 2 red and 1 orange) Scrapbooking paper, 2 sheets (8.5 x 11) or 4 half-sheets (I used a “bitty Scrap Pad”) Scissors Glue (I used Elmer’s stick glue for the paper and Aleene’s Quick Dry Tacky Glue for gluing to the pumpkin)
Making the feathers:
Fold 2 sheets of card stock in half and then in half again (so you have a long, skinny piece, as shown). I used one red and one orange sheet. Draw a feather shape on the paper Cut out feathers (you should have 8 after you are finished with both sheets of card stock)
Fold the sheets of scrapbooking paper the same way you did the card stock. (If you are using half-sheets of scrapbooking paper, you will only fold them in half once) Trace one of your cut out feathers onto the outside sheet of scrapbooking paper, then draw a smaller feather shape inside the traced outline. Cut out scrapbooking paper on the smaller outline.
Glue scrapbooking paper feathers to card stock feathers.
Making the Turkey Head:
Cut red sheet of card stock in half. Fold half-sheet in half, and draw turkey head shape on it, allowing beak and chest to overlap on folded side. Cut around outline, leaving chest and beak intact at the fold. Draw eyes and other details on head. (This photo is showing two turkey heads, by the way – so don’t cut your heads in half!)
Staple or tape back of turkey together. You will slip this turkey head over the stem of the turkey.
Assembling the Turkey:
Make sure the pumpkin is clean and dry. Decide what arrangement you want your feathers to go in. I alternated red and orange feathers, and only used seven of them.4 Glue the feathers, one at a time to the ugliest side of the pumpkin.
My son really liked the gluing process. I think he got the feathers mixed up, but hey, it’s supposed to be fun, not perfect. Heather Mann is a regular contributor at Make and Takes. She’s is the mother of three boys, ages 3, almost 2, and newborn. She publishes Dollar Store Crafts, a daily blog devoted to hip crafting at dollar store prices, CROQ Zine, a print magazine devoted to hip crafting, and also CraftFail, a community blog that encourages crafters to share their not-so-successful craft attempts.
