Turkey Preschool activities AND Turkey Shirts!

Today I was in charge of our co-op preschool group. We do this once a week, a casual, learning playgroup where the mom's end up teaching once a month but get a morning to ourselves each week...see my hidden motives? Kids learn, I get free time :)

So, we learned about Turkeys!

I created popsicle stick puzzles from this turkey printable from 2 Teaching Mommies. I told them to guess what we would be learning about once they had their puzzles together. Our boys just finished learning the numbers 1-10 so this was a perfect review activity!

Then we read the book 10 Fat Turkeys- which they LOVED! and we played Feed the Turkey. Printable also from 2 Teaching Mommies' Turkey Packet. Basically, you roll the die and get to insert that number of "food" in the turkey (paper taped on a cereal box with a slit!). Once they learned what a turkey eats and played the game (once again reviewing numbers 1-6 from the dice), we did a turkey craft.

Of course I found this idea on pinterest. Here's the inspiration:

Source: littlewondersdays.blogspot.com via Kirstikoo on Pinterest

Then we had a turkey snack-- bread (cut out with turkey cookie-cutter), fish cracker feathers and raisin eyes (cuz that's what I had in the pantry ;) One of the boys told me he didn't like turkey so he wouldn't cut his like a turkey. I told him it was still bread but he didn't believe me!

Then I let them play while I traced their hands and got everything ready for the next craft...

Turkey puppets!! We cut out their hands, glued on feathers on each finger, eyes on the thumb and a large popsicle stick on the back. Love it!

And for another fun turkey idea, these shirts are super cute!!

We took this last year- my boys are the 2 bookends and their cousins are in the middle! Can't wait to get together again this year!

Full tutorial and template for the Turkey T-shirt from The Cottage Home here!

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Happy Thanksgiving--

--from our Turkeys to Yours!

Turkey Shirt Tutorial HERE

No-Sew Fabric Pumpkins and Thanksgiving Link-Up!

10 DAYS until THANKSGIVING! ...but who's counting, right?

I'm so excited about these fabric pumpkins- they are by far the easiest project I've ever done and they didn't cost a penny! (If you don't already have fabric, look for fat quarters on sale, sometimes $1 per cut at JoAnns)

Materials:

1 Fat Quarter (18X21) or square of fabric

about that size

Toilet Paper Roll (with toilet paper still on!)

Newspaper

Branch or Sticks

Rafia or Ribbon

Glue Gun (optional)

1. Start by trimming your fabric if you're not using fat quarters.

2. Lay fabric right side down with newspaper on top. I folded the newspaper to fit, or cut/rip the edges.

3. Starting with the shortest sides, bring fabric up and tuck it inside the hole in the roll.

4. Find a nice thick stick or small branch outside and trim it to 3 inch pieces (I did 2.5 inches, but would recommend a little longer)

5. Tie Raffia or ribbon in bow around the stick

**Optional Step- Glue gun bottom of stick into the hole**

AND you are done!! See, easiest tutorial EVER!

Let's do a Thanksgiving Link-up-- share with us your great ideas! Any kind of DIY activities, giveaways, printables and crafts are welcome, but they must be Thanksgiving or Fall related! {TIP: Under the 'Name' option, put the project description}