Art Adventure: Gobble! Gobble!

This is more "craft" than "art" but my boys love this project. As adorable as these little turkeys are, just try to let them do much of it themselves even if it's not perfect. It is a lot of cutting though, so they usually beg for help.

Hand and Foot Turkeys

Supplies:

• construction paper
• pencil
• scissors
• glue
• googly eyes

On a brown piece of paper, trace your child's foot (shoe on) or just have them trace one of their shoes. Set aside.

On your turkey feather colored paper (whatever colors you wish, we used red and orange and yellow), have your child trace their hand one to two times on each color. Little ones may need help tracing.

Once everything is traced, now it's time to start cutting everything out.

Have your child cut out a triangle as a beak and a red wattle too. Both my boys wanted to make feet as well. Just use the scraps for these little pieces.

Once everything is cut out, it is time to start gluing. The heel of the foot will be the head. 

On the toe part of the foot, add glue and begin sticking the hands on to make the feathers. Depending on how many hands, you may need to add glue as you go.

Flip the turkey over. 

Add googly eyes, wattle and beak.

Add the feet if you made them. You have a cute little turkey for Thanksgiving.

Gobble! Gobble!

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Art Adventure: Glue Drawing

Kids love glue, so why not make a whole picture out of glue?

Glue Drawing

Supplies:

• school glue, such as Elmer's
• wax paper
• glitter (optional)

Tear off a piece of wax paper. Let your child draw a line drawing by squeezing glue from the bottle. 

Thicker lines will hold up better in the end.

Make sure line interesect and connect or it won't stay together after it's dry. 

Your child can make something recognizable or just scribble.

Once the drawing is complete, have your child add glitter if you want. 

And then let dry. This is the hardest part because if your lines are very thick, it can take as long as overnight.

Once dry, carefully peel the glue away from the wax paper.

Some scribbles, just kind of hang down and create an abstract mobile.

Or it may remain in shape if thicker lines were used, like this spiderweb design. 

Seeing what happens when you peel it off the wax paper is part of the fun.