Turkey Snack {School Safe}

Again it was Aurora's turn for snack time at school!  I really wish that we were allowed to handle the food so I could bake something fun, but... I understand.  Allergies.. health safety...   It's all good.  I'm getting fairly good at figuring out how to create cute snacks without touching the food!  They may not be healthy... but... they are fun!

 Here are the main things I started with.

 I tried several different ways of getting those silly Tootsie Rolls to stick.  Scrapbooking Dots didn't work.  I think it's the waxy wrapping paper.  Anyways...  I got my cookie and 4 Tootise Rolls ready next to a hot glue gun.

 Place 4 tiny dots of glue of the far end of the Tootsie Rolls and blow for about 5 seconds so it's not... too hot!  (Or... take a picture, cause that's what I did here!)

 Then plop 'em on the top part of your cookie, wrappers on everything.  Try and arrange the in a curve.

 Next, hold down the end of a bigger Tootsie Roll and put glue on the top half.  Then plop it down right below your "feathers".

Next you are going to want to CLICK HERE to download my printable of the Turkey Heads.

 

I used 2 double sided scrapbook squares to place my turkey face.

Here they are!  All lined up and waiting to be eaten!

Thanksgiving Door Swag

When unpacking my Thanksgiving decorations I noticed that I don't have a wreath for my door!  I'm very happy to report that the naked Thanksgiving door problem was rectified as quickly as possible.  My door is not naked any longer!

 Here are the main portions of the swag.  I actually got them for FREE when we lived in Alaska.  The Family Support Group on base had JoAnn's Fabric's donate a ton of stuff.  We were to show up and then take what we want!  It was crazy.  The 2 smaller wreath looking things go around the base of a candle.  I like the Wheat Bundle, but it is pretty bland.  I hang it every year, but... I like how it's going to be used from now on!

 To start I grabbed 5 different ribbons from my stash.  They were all 2 yards in length.  I knotted, them in the center, on the hook of the Wheat Bundle.

 Here comes the tricky part.  I will attempt to show you how to do a 5 strand braid.  Please keep in mind that since my ribbons are all different textures it doesn't come out looking like a traditional 5 strand AND I do this really loose at first so I can show you how to do it.  I then undo it and tighten it for the real thing!  lol  

Start by separating out all your ribbons.

 Start from the left side and take your outside ribbon under one ribbon, then over the next, then under again.

Then on the right, to the same with your outside strand.  Go under, over, under.

Then back to the left outside strand.  Under, over, under.

The right outside strand....  Under, over, under....

Just keept going until you have your length.  Here is where I stopped... undid the loose one and did it for real. 

 Here is what it will look like finished.  Instead of just knotting the end I took a 6th color ribbon and made a bow.  

(Now... I'm guna back up and show you how I added on my mini wreaths!!!)

 After braiding about 6 times (left, right, left, right, left, right)  I took 2 strands and wrapped the over the top and the other 3 went through the bottom and then started braiding again so the wreath was stuck inside!

Here is a larger view of the back.  I hope that this gives you more of an idea how I did it.  I braided and added wreaths on both sides and then....

See my fancy expensive way to hang it?  I know...  you are all coveting this right?  Painters tape!  I'm so weird... 

Fall Hand-print Trees

Ok... so this isn't as much crafty as it was a fun way to spend time with my kiddos. It started when we made hand-print turkeys! They just enjoyed it a little to much. They started tracing away and of course then wanted me to cut them out!

All I did was tape a paper trunk to our wall. After I cut out each hand-print I would put tape on it and they took turns putting the "leaves" on the tree and tracing more hands. Took us quite a while, but they had sooooooooo much fun!

Hand-print Turkeys

This is a very simple Thanksgiving project! All you need is...

Construction paper

Glue

Scissors

HANDS!!!

All I did was have the kids trace their hands on paper and then cut them out! I did help a little cause they got a little tired of cutting the fingers. Next layer 3 hand-prints and cut and glue the beak and eyes. Use your own judgement as to how well you kids to with glue. I used a glue stick, so they were able to pretty much do it themselves!

They did love tracing a little to much though.... Click here to see what became of that!