M&M Thanksgiving Turkey Favors

A few weeks ago, I came across a really cute holiday favor idea for the kids that used M&M’s to make these adorable turkeys. The photo on Pinterest looks like this:

 

 

First, I assembled the pieces. I had a bit of trouble finding brown mesh at my local craft store, so I went with pre-cut circles that were black.

Then I cut the pipe cleaners. (Though I don’t think the preferred nomenclature is currently “pipe cleaner”, I think it’s something like “chenille stem”. I still call them pipe cleaners, even though no one I know has smoked a pipe since Nixon left office. Plus, I guess all these great colors weren’t around back then. Unless perhaps you were cleaning some psychedelic pipes in college.)

Anyway…the heads for the turkeys were made by curling one end of the brown pipe cleaner.

Then, a small pice of an orange pipe cleaner was curled around that,

and a red one was used to make the snood. That’s right, I just used the word “snood” in a sentence.

After the head had been formed, I attached the eyes with a bit of fabric glue, though I found with subsequent turkeys that this step worked better after the whole bird had been assembled.

The legs were made next, using yellow pipe cleaners. Basically, you take the longer piece, and fold the smaller one over its end, and then turn up the “foot”.

Next, I filled the tulle circles with candies and instead of using rubber bands to secure them, I twisted a small piece of black pipe cleaner.

The legs and neck were then inserted through the little holes in the body to finish the turkey.

And I also made some friends for him. The kids will certainly gobble these up tomorrow! (Sorry, I don’t know why I was compelled to go there, but I couldn’t help myself.) Happy Thanksgiving!