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1) Place a hand full of rocks, marbles or rice in the bottom of one
of the peat pots. This gives your turkey some weight so he won't fall
over.
2) Turn the second peat pot upside-down and hot glue it on top of the
first one, rim to rim.
3) Cut a 6 1/2" piece of red pipecleaner and bend it back and forth
so that you end up with 3 or 4 bumps in the pipecleaner as pictured. Hot
glue this to the top pot.
4) Using hot glue, attach 10 colored popsicle sticks to the back of
the pots alternating the colors as you go.
5) Cut a yellow or gold popsicle stick in half and glue both pieces
to the bottom of your turkey for feet.
6) Cut a 1 1/2" piece of orange pipecleaner, fold it in half and hot
glue it to the front of the top peat pot as a beak.
7) Cut a 1 1/2" piece of red pipecleaner and fold it back and forth
forming a waddle. Glue the pipecleaner waddle just under the beak.
 8) Glue on the googly eyes and draw eyebrows above them. You can draw
a mouth below the beak if you would like to add a more human touch to
your turkey - this is optional.
9) Lay a jumbo craft stick flat on your work surface. On one
end, close to the edge, measure and mark 1" from the end. At the same
end but next to the other side of the craft stick, measure and mark 1
1/2" from the end. Draw a line across these two marks. You
now have a diagonal line. Cut the craft stick on this line. This is one
wing. Repeat with the other end of the stick for the second wing.
10) Hot glue one "wing" on each side of your turkey. See
picture for placement.
Optional: Make several turkeys and personalize them by writing your
guests' names on the front of the turkeys on the bottom pot.
Then use the turkeys as
place markers for your Thanksgiving feast.
Printable
instructions
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