Gobble gobble

Brighten your home or office (or home office) with a turkey candy jar! It's the same concept as the pumpkin candy jars (first project on the post of Halloween projects), but with a turkey for Thanksgiving! You could even put it out on Thanksgiving day for all of your guests to enjoy.


What you will need:
Jar (emptied, washed with peel removed)
Acrylic paint (brown, white, orange, and black)
Paint brush
Construction paper (I used orange, green, brown, red, and yellow, but you could use however many or however few colors that you like!)
Scissors
Glue
Candy of your choice

What you do:
1) Paint jar completely brown.  I used two layers.  You can use dark or light brown.
2) Wait for jar to dry completely. While you are waiting, cut out the feathers of the turkey. In order to do this so that they look the same, made a pile of the construction paper, I cut the pile into thirds, and stacked those into a larger pile. I then cut the feathers out of the piled paper.
3) Your jar should be dry by then (acrylic paint takes next to no time to dry).
4) Using the white paint, make two circles for the eyes. Set the jar down and let them dry.  Make sure you do two layers on the eyes as well, especially if you used dark brown paint so that the brown doesn't show through.
5) Make a downward facing triangle using the orange paint for the beak/nose. Again, you will probably need two layers.
6) While the eyes and beak are drying, layer the construction paper feathers and glue them together.  Set aside.
7) When the eyes are dry, paint pupils in the center, or do crazy eyes or whatever you feel like.
8) Put glue on the back of the jar, and press the feathers against the glue for 1 whole minute (I suggest actually counting to 60 to be sure they are stuck on completely, especially if the plume is as big as the one that I made).
9) Fill with candy!