Apple-gumdrop turkey

www.homeschoolzone.com/pp/turkyday.htm



What you need per child:

one apple

eight toothpicks

twenty five gum drops (could substitute colored marshmallows)

one spice drop (or large marshmallow)



What you do:

Place the apple on a table with the stem facing the child. Have your child thread two gum drops on a toothpick and put the spice drop or other candy that is a little larger than a gum drop on the top. Do not let the tooth pick go all the way through this last piece of candy. This forms the head and neck of the turkey.



Insert the toothpick into the apple at the end away from the stem. Now thread three gumdrops on five toothpicks. These will be the tail feathers of the turkey. Insert them in a fan shape near the stem of the apple. Then turn the apple over and put three gumdrops on two toothpicks to make the feet.

Insert the two toothpicks that are the legs at an angle on the bottom of the apple. When you stand it up it does look like a turkey.

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We made these turkeys today at an afterschool activity for 1st-4th Grade students and they had a ball! It was very easy.



Here's the changes I would make to the homeschoolzone site's instructions:



Place the apple with the stem facing away from the child. Prepare the 5 turkey tail toothpicks with 3 gumdrops each and stick them into the apple near the stem end in a fan tail shape. Prepare the neck (2 gumdrops) and insert it into the other end of apple. Stick the side of the spice drop onto the neck so the pointy part sticks forward for a beak. Put 2 gumdrops on each of 2 toothpicks and stick in front bottom of apple for feet. So we only used 21 gumdrops per apple, plus the spice drop head. It looked great.