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Plastic Bag Turkey

This photo originally appeared in FamilyFun Magazine

Dip into your recycling bin and craft cabinet for supplies, then have each tyke make a tom.

by Debra Immergut | Photograph by Alexandra Grablewski

What you'll need

• 7 colorful plastic bags
• 3 pipe cleaners (at least one should be red)
• tacky glue
• 1-inch pom-pom
• 2 tiny white pom-poms
• yellow craft foam
• black marker

How to make it

1. Cut the handles and bottoms off four plastic bags. Trim the bags into 7- by 9-inch sheets and stack them, as shown. Starting on a short side, make 1-inch accordion folds.
2. Tie the folded stack at the center with a pipe cleaner.
3. Gently separate the layers, creating a puffy ball shape. With scissors, trim the body to the desired size.
4. Make the tail: Cut the handles and bottoms off the remaining bags and trim them into 13- by 8-inch sheets. Starting on a short side, make 1-inch accordion folds. Tie the folded stack at the center with a pipe cleaner; do not separate the layers. Trim the tail to the desired size.
5. Finish the turkey: Twist the pipe cleaners together to join the body and tail; this will also create the neck. Form a small loop at the neck's end. With tacky glue, adhere the large pom-pom to the loop. Glue on white pom-poms for eyes, a yellow foam beak, and a red pipe cleaner snood. Draw on the pupils.

Courtesy of FamilyFun Magazine

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Pilgrim Hat Cookies Recipe

TOTAL TIME: Prep: 1 hour

MAKES: 32 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cup vanilla frosting

• 7 drops yellow food coloring

• 32 miniature peanut butter cups

• 1 package (11-1/2 ounces) fudge-striped cookies

• 32 pieces orange mini Chiclets gum

Nutritional Facts

1 cookie equals 130 calories, 7 g fat (3 g saturated fat), trace cholesterol, 81 mg sodium, 16 g carbohydrate, 1 g fiber, 2 g protein.

Directions

1. In a small shallow bowl, combine frosting and food coloring. Remove paper liners from peanut butter cups.
2. Holding the bottom of a peanut butter cup, dip top of cup in yellow frosting. Position over center hole on the bottom of cookie, forming the hatband and crown. Add a buckle of Chiclets gum. Repeat with remaining cups and cookies. Yield: 32 cookies.

Originally published as Pilgrim Hat Cookies in Taste of Home October/November 2008, p34

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