Centerpieces add decor and fun to a dinner table for any event. Make your own paper turkey centerpieces to dress up your Thanksgiving dinner table, or as part of the table decor for a fall dinner party. Get the children involved in making these fairly easy to make centerpieces.
Instructions
1. Trace your hand twice onto a red, orange and yellow piece of construction paper. You will have six hand prints.
2. Cut the hand prints out with scissors.
3. Stack all the hand prints together in the order red, yellow, orange, red, yellow and orange.
4. Fan out the stack of hand prints so that the look like turkey feathers.
5. Staple the hand prints together in this fan with a few staples along the bottom of the palm of the hand prints.
6. Cut a gourd shape that is an inch shorter than your hand print. A gourd looks like smaller oval shape stacked, overlapping, on top of a larger oval shape. This will be the turkey's body.
7. Staple the gourd shape to the feathers, with the wide end of the gourd at the bottom, in the same location where you stapled the feather together.
8. Glue craft eyes to the turkey's head with craft glue.
9. Cut a red squiggle that is about an 1 1/2 long and 1/4 of an inch wide from red construction paper. Cut a beak for your turkey that is about 1/2 an inch wide along the top and 1/2 an inch tall from orange construction paper.
10. Glue the orange beak to your turkey's head and then the red squiggle, which is the turkey's wattle, onto the turkey's face hanging right next to the beak.
11. Make another turkey in the exact same manner.
12. Cut a 6 1/4-by-1 inch strip of poster board.
13. Place the two turkeys back to back, with the strip of poster board between the two of them running horizontally along the bottom. The poster board will stick out along the sides of the turkeys. Staple the turkeys and poster board together a couple times. Glue the two turkeys together with a little craft glue above the poster board strip.
14. Cut two pieces of brown paper that is 3 1/8 by 20 inches.
15. Accordion fold the two strips of brown paper so that each fold is an inch deep. Crease these folds with a bone folder. An accordion fold involves folding the first inch in one direction and the next inch in the other direction, continuing until the whole paper is folded.
16. Glue one end of one strip to the bottom of the turkey construction so that the edge of the paper lines up with the edge of the poster board. The paper strip needs to be oriented so that the folds go up and down, not in and out.
17.Glue the other end of the same strip to the other end of the same side of the poster board so the strip fans out into a half circle.
18. Glue the other accordion folded strip to the other side of the turkey construction so that there is a full accordion folded circle around the turkeys so they stand up.
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