A child's hands will help make this colorful turkey decoration.
A hand print turkey is nothing original but finding a unique medium to fashion
the feathers is always fun; nuts, dried beans, popcorn, feathers, tissue paper wallpaper scraps, pasta...I've used them all. Now let's try this fun dotted mosaic handprint turkey! Don't forget to date the art work and laminate it if possible. these little hands grow so quickly!
You'll Need
brown construction paper
another color of construction paper for the background
kid-safe paint black, orange, red, yellow
cotton swabs
scissors
glue
wiggle eyes, optional
smocks are recommended
Ice cube tray (optional)
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How to make it:
Using the ice cube tray for a paint tray will keep things a bit tidier and help prevent paint mixing. Pour the colors into the cubes...red, green, brown, gold, white, green, orange etc. Supply a few cotton swabs for each color.
Now cover the work surface with newspaper and the kids with smocks. Create the turkey body by tracing your child's hand onto the brown paper. Cut along the traced lines and glue the turkey onto another sheet of construction paper so that there is a background.
Encourage the children to practice making their dots on scrap pieces of paper first gently dabbing the paint with the cotton swabs...just up and down...not side to side. Now it's time to make dots in different colors to create feathers. Begin with black dotted feet and then add dots along the fingers of the turkey handprint.When the paint it dry add a wiggle eye and a paper beak and wattle with glue.
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