How to Make a Turkey Place Card Holder of Felt and Feathers

Isn’t he sweet and goofy at the same time? Tom Turkey stands up to mark your guests’ places; but then folds flat to store away for future Thanksgiving feasts.

Supplies (for one place card):

• Crafting felt – red, dark brown, tan and yellow
• Two 5 to 7 mm Googley eyes
• Disappearing marker used for quilting
• Threads to match and needle or sewing machine
• One 12-inch square of low-loft quilt batting
• 14 small feathers – example shows Zucker feather assortment in “PH Plumage Almnd Lse Nat”
• 3-inch square of stiff cardboard
• Aleene’s Clear Gel Tacky Glue

Instructions:

Open a new word processing program document and minimize the margins. Click on the template above and copy. Paste the template into the new document.

Click on the image and move it to the top left on the page. Move the cursor over the lower right corner until you can grab the corner and stretch the template as close to 8 1/2 by 11 inches as your printer margins allow.

Print.

Use the template to cut out all the pattern pieces for the turkey. Trace around each pattern piece or use a series of dots on the appropriate felt color with a disappearing marker.

As indicated on the template, you will need:

• 2 dark brown Tail Feathers A
• 2 tan Tail Feathers B
• 2 yellow Tail Feathers C
• 2 dark brown Body
• 2 tan Head
• 1 tan Feet
• 1 cardboard for the feet base; score and fold the flap up along the dotted line.
• 1 each yellow Upper Beak and Lower Beak
• 1 each red Snood and Wattle


Tomorrow we’ll put all the pieces together. Please come back!

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