This is a very late post. We did this craft a little bit before Thanksgiving and used the turkeys as centerpieces on our Thanksgiving table.

What you'll need:
Pincones
Construction paper
Scissors
Glue
Googly eyes (optional)

Collect a few pinecones, as many as you want turkeys. I suggest picking out slightly smaller ones that have opened up already. These will be the body of your turkey.

No prep on the pinecone is necessary other than picking up ones that aren't wet or sticky.

Depending on the age of the person doing the craft an adult may have to do a little prep for they other materials before you get to creating.

Feathers are just cut from construction paper. Draw the shape on one piece and then layered and cut several at a time). If your kids are handy with scissors this would be fun to let them do. They could cut one out at a time if cutting several pieces of paper is too hard.

Bodies are made in a similar fashion, layering several pieces of paper together and cutting a bunch at once. They are shaped like a peanut. If your only doing two you can cut them each out individually to give them each their own uniqueness. Turkeys are like snowflakes, no two are identical.

Cut a diamond shape for the beak.

The a squiggle shape for the waddle.

Now you are all set to get your kids creating.
Let you kids use a glue stick to glue the beak, waddle, and eyes to the body. Then move onto the cone part.

Have them put elmers glue on the tips of the "feathers" and then they push it into the cone while you hold the sections open. The glue will not hold forever BUT then you take hot glue to glue the peanut shape to the cone and shore up the "feathers" by adding hot glue into the sections.

And bamm! You have a beautiful pinecone Turkey. This was so fun and easy my girls wanted to make more. I will definitely revisit this craft for years to come.

Happy crafting!

Negative Space Painting with Kids

Auntie Cece was babysitting the munchkins this summer and creative genius that she is, she did an art project with them.

She brought over a plain canvas for each of them and placed an M in the center of each canvas with painters tape.

She then gave the kids paint and let them have at it.

After they were finished painting she let the paintings dry then removed the painters tape. Voila! Beautiful negative space paintings done by toddlers.

My angels are so sweet and decided that they had painted their paintings for eachother. They switched painting to have them displayed in eachothers room.

Quotes...

A few quote pics that I ran across recently that just struck a cord in me.

-Be picky with who you invest your time in, wasted time is worse than wasted money.

-Next time when you think of Beautiful things, don't forget to count yourself in.

-Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.

-Never underestimate the pain of a person, because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. Some people are better at hiding it than others.

-Respect people who find time for you in their busy schedule... But love people who never look at their schedule when you need them.

-Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. Always.

-Sometimes people try to expose what's wrong with you, because they can't handle what's right about you.

-Always pray to have eyes that see the best in people, a heart that forgives the bad, and a sould that never loses faith God.

-A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows weather on not to say it.

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words, sometimes a a picture of words is worth a thousand thoughts. Introspection is never a bad thing. Think before you act, talk, or make assumptions. Ooo that just made me think of another great quote.