Turkey Day Place Cards

Make these simple place cards out of corks and bobby pins.

By Amanda Kingloff

What You'll Need

3 corks
Craft glue
Yarn
3mm black pom-poms
Wooden beads
Red and yellow felt
Scissors
Feathers
2 bobby pins
Craft paper
Colored pencil
Toothpick

1. Glue together three corks to form a triangle. Roll yarn into a 1-1/2" ball and glue to the top of one cork.

2. Glue black pom-poms to the holes of wooden beads and glue beads to yarn ball for eyes.

3. Cut a diamond shape from yellow felt (about 1/4"x1/2"), fold in half, and glue to head just under eyes.

4. Cut three teardrops from red felt, about 1/2" long each, and glue under the head to the top edge of the cork.

5. Glue feathers to the back of the two rear corks, as shown, and glue bobby pins underneath the front cork for feet.

6. Write your guest's name on a fun craft-paper shape (we used a paper punch) and glue to a toothpick; stick into one of the corks.

Originally published in the November 2009 issue of Parents magazine.

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Comments (2)

pittshq wrote:

I made a whole rafter of turkeys for my daughter's K4 Thanksgiving Feast. They were a HUGE hit with both the children and their parents! They were really fun to make and made the place settings look super cute! I decided to forego the bobby pins and the turkeys looked just as cute. Highly recommend this project!!!

12/1/2009 09:37:33 AM Report Abuse

truro11 wrote:

This is such a cute idea! I'm thinking of making them into magnets to give as gifts to my coworkers for Thanksgiving.

11/11/2009 03:39:05 PM Report Abuse