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- Craft gourd, foam filled, 10" long, 5 1/2" at widest part
- 3" felt top hat
- Two 15-mm wiggle eyes
- Foam plate
- Lo-temp glue gun and glue sticks
- Pencil
- Scissors
- Ruler
- 2/3 yard of 1 1/2" wide black grosgrain ribbon
- Craft foam sheets: red, brown, green, orange, white, and purple
- Foam filled pumpkin, 8" high x 10" wide
Steps:
Preparation: Remove all stickers or tags from pumpkin before painting.
1. Remove stem from pumpkin. For turkey body, refer to photo for position and glue bottom
of gourd to top of pumpkin. Fill in any remaining gaps between surfaces with glue.
2. Use flat brush and Light Cinnamon to paint gourd and pumpkin shape and let dry.
3. Use shader brush and True Ochre to paint stem for beak of turkey; let dry.
4. Spray turkey shape with Americana Matte Sealer and let dry.
5. Cut two 11" x 2 3/4" strips from red, orange, green, brown, and purple foam. Refer to
photo and, on one end of each strip, cut rounded point for feather tips. (Use first one for
pattern on others.)
6. Trace waddle pattern onto red foam; cut out shape.
7. Trace feet pattern onto orange foam; cut out shape.
8. Trace collar pattern onto white foam; cut out shape.
9. Slip round opening of waddle shape over beak and glue waddle that surrounds beak to
head.
10. Wrap collar ends around neck, overlap ends, and glue between layers and between collar
and neck. Trim excess ends at back if not aligned neatly.
11. Glue wiggle eyes to head, overlapping top of waddle.
