Remember how as a child you would always sing about Tom Turkey hiding from the farmer? I must have been a morbid child because I loved singing the part about the ax coming down. I was reminded of this song when Lily brought her homework folder home last Thursday. We were excited to see that not only did she have her normal penmanship homework, but she had been given a turkey to cut out and decorate. I worked with Lily on cutting him out, which for a kindergartner is quite a task. No one should ask a kindergartner to make so many teeny tiny rounded cuts. She did excellent though!
We decided to wait to decorate him because Lily wanted sparkles {aka glitter} and the only glitter I had was orange. That night we explained the assignment to Russ and he jumped right on board. He was so excited to help Lily! Friday with daddy’s help we found some glitter that would work. When Lily got home from school her and daddy got right to work on her turkey.
They started off painting good ol’ Tom’s body brown.
Then daddy showed Lily how to split up Tom’s feathers evenly, so that Lily could alternate the colors around his body.
Lily got to work on painting with the glitter glue.
Lily decided at the last second that she wanted to put beans on Tom’s body too. We broke out the beans that I’ve been meaning to use for beanbags and she glued them on. Tom had to dry the rest of Friday and all day Saturday, and part of Sunday before we could take a picture of him. Lily was quite pleased with her creation! {I think daddy was too! LOL!}
Today Tom went to class with Lily. She reported back to us that the teacher though it was “fantastic” and hung it up on the board with the other kids. I’m really glad that Russ got to help Lily with this project. With his ultra long work days it seems like he sometimes misses out on these fun projects, but not this time!
