Things You'll Need:
- 1 large pine cone for each guest
- Construction paper or felt, orange, yellow and red
- Orange and brown pipe cleaners
- Googly eyes, 2 for each turkey place card holder
- White craft glue
- Fine tip marker
- Scissors
- Feathers
- Card stock or tag board
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Step 1
Preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Put the pine cones on a baking sheet and put them in the oven for about 45 minutes. The heat will kill any bugs or bacteria in the pine cones and make them safe to put on your Thanksgiving table.
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Step 2
Wrap a brown pipe cleaner around the narrow end of each pine cone. The pipe cleaner should go in the second or third row of the pine cone "leaves." Bend the remaining part of the pipe cleaner into a circular head shape that extends from the top of the pine cone.
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Step 3
Glue two googly eyes to the pipe cleaner head. Cut a small orange diamond shape from felt or construction paper and fold it in half so it looks like a beak. Glue the beak to the turkey's head.
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Step 4
Snip a small triangle from red felt or construction paper and glue it to the pine cone to form a wattle on the turkey's chin.
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Step 5
Wrap an orange pipe cleaner around the middle of the pine cone to make the turkey's feet, and bend each foot into three toes. The feet are decorative only, and aren't intended to support the turkey.
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Step 6
Glue a fan of feathers to the rear part of the turkey.
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Step 7
Cut the card stock or tag board into rectangular name cards, and write each guest's name on a card. Insert a name card into the leaves of each pine cone.
