Your children can help decorate your Thanksgiving table and make a gift for relatives, with these easy to make pinecone turkeys crafts. For an extra touch add place cards for your family members and then they can take the handmade turkeys home.

Materials

• a dry pinecone for each guest
• pipe cleaners (brown or tan)
• craft feathers

• craft glue
• cardstock paper

Instructions

1.
Lightly dip the ends of the feathers into the glue and then insert into the back of the pine cone turkey body. Repeat until you have all of your tail feathers.
2.
Allow the glue to dry.
3.
Fold the pipe cleaner stem in half and then bend the tip a bit to make the head.
4.
Twist the pipe cleaner stem around the tip of the pine cone to create the head and neck and then twist to secure. You may want to fashion some feet with the tips of the stem to help hold the turkey in place.
5.
Using cardstock paper, cut, fold, and write the name on your place card. When it's time to set the table, place it in front of the turkey.

Tips

• I use the "fuzzy" pipe cleaners for thicker feathers.

Variations

You'll need:

• 1 dry pine cone for each guest
• pipe cleaners in brown or tan
• pine sprigs for each setting
• address label stickers
• wire cutters

Cut the pipe cleaner stems in half with wire cutters. Make a loop and twist the ends for the feathers. Twist a brown or black pipe cleaner for the head and neck. Insert the feathers, etc., into the pine cone. Use two address labels for each setting. Write the name on one of the labels. Secure the two labels together with the pipe cleaner in between them both. This avoids a messy glue situation! At table setting time, place the turkeys onto a pine sprig, add a few nuts, and you're done!