Gettin' Crafty with Twitter

I often see different sites with kid crafts and think to myself 'Oh that would be nice -- or a complete disaster to try with Austin'. Today I was draggin' around, coffee in hand, thinking I need to get ready to go to the craft store and buy some Turkey type craft stuff because Austin needs to make something Thanksgiving-y or I have failed as a mother.

Then I was checking Twitter and I saw a post about Thanksgiving baby signs from @ElizabethSigns and promptly taught Austin the sign for Turkey. But we have no Turkey...ugh. Now I really need to get up and go get some Turkey stuff to make this a complete lesson.

Well, lo and behold then I saw a tweet from my kid craft guru @NoFlashCards. This woman can do everything!! She featured a poultry craft with some crumpled leaves. {Lightbulb!} Hey, I have leaves...lots & lots of leaves. I can do this and I don't even need to get out of my PJs! (Hey it was only 8am.) Then, DOH! I recalled that I have TONS of scrapbook supplies gathering dust.

So I took a paper plate, some old scrapbook paper and a handful of leaves which had fallen right into the veranda. Seriously this could not have gone better, I didn't even have to put on my shoes. Niice.





I found some tacky glue, cut "feathers" and set Austin to work on his first Turkey. The leaves did not want to stick on with my tacky glue and...well I did not want it to get too messy or complex for a 2 yo with short attention span. So I cheated and used glue dots to hold one massive leaf for the Turkey body. Austin lightly colored a face (we need new crayons)...and Voila!



Gobble! Gobble!


The artist did not want to be photographed in his PJs. Excuse the lousy pics, still without my computer and my cell phone lacks good picture quality.


Thanks for peeking,