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This week Unplug Your Kids' weekly unplugged project is FRUIT.


I am completely nuts about stamping with apples and potatoes and with Thanksgiving coming up in 2 weeks what better time than to do something turkeyish *grin*.


The weather cooperated perfectly and we set up our painting station outside since this one was going to be a wee bit messy :) K and L picked out an assortment of fall colored paints, putting a blob of each onto our palette, filled up some buckets for hand wash stations and I brought out an apple cut in half so each of them had their own chunk for stamping and a couple of corks :)


We started by dipping our apple into a nice blob of paint so that it had a nice coating. They found that the more paint on the apple, the better the print was so don't be shy with the paint :) This is going to be our turkey body.


Now comes the messy part *grin*. Start dipping your finger into one of the colors so that you can give your turkey some tail feathers :)


Switch up your colors a couple of times and you will have a lovely plumage for your Thanksgiving turkey :)


But wait!! It needs a head. That's where the cork comes in....


for a perfect little round head :)


L started to get a little tired of dipping one finger into paint for one tail feather and then washing and dipping another so we thought that we would try painting all of her fingers at one time!


It worked great, making a rainbow colored tail and the paint was good for 2 stamps worth :)


They filled up their papers with a wonderful collection of apple stamped turkeys to decorate our kitchen with :)


Gobble, gobble. LOL.

Have fun making some of your own :)

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Posted by ThreeLittleLadies

The door on that building in the post below is amazing. I think so too.

Carol

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Posted by smallworldathome.blogspot.com

We haven't done any sweet art projects like that in so long!! I am going to have to get busy and do some--thanks for the inspiration!

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Posted by ApplesofGold

IYou do so many fun things-your posts always inspire me to add more fun to our days! Holly

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Posted by Anonymous

Those are really cute! We've done handprint turkeys before, but I never thought of using an apple print for the body. Great idea.

ashley@oneordinaryday.com

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Posted by Anonymous

What a great idea. I am going to have to remember this for when we start doing thanksgiving ideas.

Heather
http://gottfredsenacademy.blogspot.com

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Posted by jenn4him

That looks like so much fun! And I love your easel. I apologize for not visiting sooner. I have been off the computer working at home for a change!
Jenn

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Posted by Anonymous

What a clever idea using an apple for the turkey body and I love painting each finger a different color. Thanks for sharing!
Linds
http://thisabode.blogspot.com

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Posted by Bobbie

these are awesome!! so cute!! we dont celebrate thanksgiving here.. but I wish I could.. maybe I will ;)

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Posted by Sandpiper

Those are pretty neat turkeys! I love your easel too!

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Posted by Michelle

Cute turkeys and I love how you took the project outside.

http://natureswaylearning.com

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Posted by Dana @ School For Us

What great looking turkeys! And, it looks like lots of messy fun, too. :-)
Dana, www.alexml.blogspot.com

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Posted by kellieann

Those are amazingly cute!

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Posted by Christin

How fun and creative! They came out really well! I pray you have a wonderful Thanksgiving! My husband and I honeymooned in Canada (Niagra Falls) 8 years ago and it was right around Thanksgiving (I think a week before). They were shooting off fireworks right outside our hotel window to celebrate the occasion! :) It was a lot of fun.

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Posted by Anonymous

Those turkeys are so cute! We might have to try this!

www.seekingimperfection.blogspot.com

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Posted by Idzie

Ooh, that looks like so much fun! I remember painting like that when I was younger... Perhaps I should cut up a few fruits and vegetables, gather some other interesting items from around the house, and try stamp painting once again... :-)

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