Family Turkey Project

On Monday Andy brought home an assignment for the entire family.  It was called the Family Turkey Project.  It was a white, photocopied turkey that he had to be cut out and decorate for school.  With the entire family.  Ugh.  I don't mean to be nasty, but I don't really want to do homework with my kids.  I'll sit with them while they do their own homework, but I don't want to do their homework.  I did homework for years.  Now it's their turn.  However, since he's only in third grade, the teacher thought it would be a fun, no stress project for the kids to do with their families.  His teacher doesn't know our family very well.

The kids were supposed to color the turkey and then decorate it with whatever they wanted.  Feathers, pom poms, cereal, pasta, whatever.  I didn't think it would be an issue, we have tons of crafting items in our cabinets.  Or so I thought.  It turns out we have several different kinds of crafting sticks, bags and bags of foamy sticky letters and about 4,000 crayons and markers.  Not a lot of embellishments.

So, I packed up the kids and took them to Hobby Lobby to get some supplies for our turkey.  Yay.  Andy wanted the turkey to have a worm in it's mouth, so we had to get some Model Magic.  If you've never used it before, it's awesome.  It's like Play-Doh and clay, but it's super soft and light and fluffy and doesn't break off into tiny pieces like Play-Doh and isn't all greasy like clay.  Plus it still dries out if you don't cover it.  We also picked up feathers, glittery pom poms, glittery pipe cleaners and little jingle bells.

I was a little wary before we started the project, but then the kids really got into it and so did I.  I was mostly excited because I got to use my glue gun for the first time.  That is a whole lot of fun.  We used everything we bought and even some of the craft sticks we already had.  The kids say he is more of a Christmas Turkey and just wants to skip over Thanksgiving.  I think they are forgetting that we eat turkey for Christmas too.

Overall, I give the project two thumbs up.  I also was able to prove my theory that if you have super low expectations for something it will probably turn out okay.