Thanksgiving Turkey Keepsake Craft

Now that Halloween is over it is time to be thankful.... and decorate with Turkeys! I love doing arts and crafts with my 2 girls and son and this year we decided to go along the lines of the Halloween spiders and make Thanksgiving Turkeys. 

Here are the materials needed for this craft :

• Construction paper - Brown for the turkey body, orange for his mouth, red for his "gobbler", white for the eyes, and whatever colors you want for the wings (We did, orange, yellow, red, and green)
• Ink Pen or Pencil - Used for tracing
• Scissors
• Glue

You can also add googly eyes for the turkey instead of just paper eyes.

Directions to Make your Turkey!

1. Trace your child's foot onto the brown paper.
2. Trace the child's hand onto a piece of colored paper for the wings. **You can either trace one hand and cut out numerous wings at one time by stacking the papers ---OR--- you can trace and cut each hand separately. We did our separate so my daughter could practice cutting with scissors**
3. After the turkey body and all the wings (we did 4 wings) are cut it is time to assemble.
4. Start by gluing 1 hand wing at a time to the back of the foot body. Continue until all wings are attached.
5. Now assemble the turkey face --- 2 eyes. 1 beak, and 1 gobbler

Voila! You now have a Thanksgiving Turkey Keepsake!!

Halloween Keepsakes

Every holiday I like to do fun crafts with my three little children. For Halloween we made keepsake crafts!

I decided we would do some Halloween hand spiders and some Halloween feet ghost. First you need to gather your materials.

Materials :

• Black & White paper (Also whatever color you want for the spiders eyes)
• White crayon & Pen for tracing hands and feet
• Scissors
• Glue or Tape

For the Spider -

After you get everything you need begin by folding your black paper in half. With white crayon trace your little one's hand but be sure to only do FOUR fingers, if you trace all five your spider will have 10 legs :o)

After you are done you or your child can cut the spider out. Open it up and there you have a nice spider body with eight legs. 

This is when you can add the eyes and my children added 2 white fangs, apply with glue or tape. 

All done!

For the Ghost -

Start by laying your white paper on the ground and then trace the child's foot with the pen.

After you are done tracing the foot either you or your child can cut it out. 

Finish off your ghost with 2 black eyes and a big spooky black mouth.

All done!!

Quick, easy, and fun Halloween keepsakes. Hang on your walls, fridge, or door for some decorations. When the holiday is over you can take them down and write the child's name, age, and date on the back. Put in a safe place so that when they are older you can look back and see how small their hands and feet were!! :o)

Pirate Party Invite

My youngest child and only son Trace is turning 2 at the end of the month. He is in love with Jake and the Neverland Pirates so that is the theme we decided to go with. We are also doing his party at our local zoo where we will get to do hands on feedings with the giraffes. To fit the theme I had to do something special for the invites. Being a graphic designer I always custom make my children's invites, but this one had to be more. Why.... well just because!

So I started to rack my brain of what kind of Pirate themed invite I should do for my son. Then it hit me!! Why not do a Pirate Treasure map invite?!? Genius! So then I started working on the rough draft, first I had to color and design the treasure map looking paper, then I created the cute little map to follow to the X, after that I scribbled down a few cute sayings till the perfect one jumped out!

After creating the invite, getting the ok from the hubby, I printed them out and began to get ready to finish these pirate invites so they would be ready to hand out. First my husband and I carefully burned all the edges to the invites to give them a more pirate treasure map feel. Then to make them even more treasure map like, we rolled them up and tied them with a black string.

My son loved handing these out to our friends and family members, he wasn't 100% sure of what they were but he enjoyed giving them away.