In Teresa Bateman's A Plump and Perky Turkey the turkeys have finally wised up to Thanksgiving and have made themselves scarce. The townspeople want a plump turkey for their dinner so they try to trick a turkey into returning to town to model for, and then judge, a turkey art contest. The people make turkeys out of all sorts of materials- soap, oatmeal, rope and more. Will their plan work or will the turkeys outsmart them once again?
Eva loved seeing the turkeys made of so many different things so I asked her what she would make her turkey out of. She chose ribbon so we cut strips of various ribbon I had around. We also used two brown paper circles, some orange scraps and googly eyes. To start, I put a dab of glue on the end of each ribbon and Eva formed a loop. (It turned out that white glue only held non-silky ribbon together so I ended up using glue dots on the rest.)
(Don't mind the Halloween jammies- we are celebrating my birthday today with a jammie day and Eva wanted to wear footed ones.)
Then Eva put her turkey together tucking the ribbons under the body.
Then Eva put her turkey together tucking the ribbons under the body.
To finish the picture I wrote "T is for turkey" along the bottom. I also added a dot under each word so that Eva could point and read it.
What would you make your turkey out of?
Another super idea!
ReplyDeleteThe ribbons remind me of a Taggie JDaniel had when he was a baby.
ReplyDeleteThis is SO darling! I am just about to write a post about what we did with this book, too!!! I love the ribbon turkey!
ReplyDeleteSo cute. We get together with our neighbors for craft time...this is a great idea!
ReplyDeleteThis is soooo cute! I love how colorful the ribbons are.
ReplyDeleteThis is simply just precious. I came through from an old link up through the stART.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by!
ReplyDelete