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Table Top Turkey

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What You Need
  • 1 empty 4.23 oz. NESTLÉ JUICY JUICE drink box
  • 1 - 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of brown felt
  • 1 - 8 1/2 by 11 inch sheet of red felt
  • 1 sheet each of yellow and orange craft foam
  • Brown, red, orange and yellow acrylic paint
  • Paint brush
  • Safety scissors
  • Craft glue gun
  • 1 - 2 inch brown pom-pom
  • 1/4 inch google eyes
  • 1 - 8 inch paper plate
  • 1 - 6 inch paper plate
How To Do It
  • Print out templates. Template 1. Template 2. Template 3.
  • Cut body from brown felt.
  • With a craft glue gun, attach the body piece around the NESTLÉ JUICY JUICE drink box.
  • Glue the pom-pom to the top of the NESTLÉ JUICY JUICE drink box.
  • Cut the beak from yellow craft foam and feet from orange craft foam.
  • Glue the beak to the middle-front of the brown pom-pom, and the google eyes right above the beak.
  • Cut the turkey's "waddle" from red felt. Glue it from the top of the beak and position it so that it hangs down one side of the beak.
  • Glue the feet to the bottom of the NESTLÉ JUICY JUICE drink box.
  • Paint the "feathers" onto the back of the large paper plate (see diagram for suggestion), using red, brown and yellow acrylic paint.
  • Paint the small paper plate with brown acrylic paint.
  • Glue the brown paper plate to the back of the NESTLÉ JUICY JUICE drink box.
  • Glue the large "feather" paper plate to the back of the brown plate.
  • Your Table Top Turkey is ready to display.
Tips
  • You can also use the larger, 6.75 oz. juice box. Just increase the size of the paper plates you use for the turkey's body and feathers.
Follow-Up Fun

You can "Talk Turkey" with your kids by sharing some fun Turkey facts!
  • Benjamin Franklin wanted the official United States bird to be the Turkey
  • The male turkey is called a Tom, the female turkey is called a Hen and baby turkeys are called Poults.
  • Male turkeys gobble. Hens don't gobble; they make clicking noises.
  • Gobbling turkeys can be heard up to a mile away on a quiet day
  • Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ate roast turkey for their first meal after they landed on the moon.

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