Kid's Thanksgiving Crafts Potato Turkey

Kid's Thanksgiving Crafts Potato Turkey

Large brown potatoes
• Toothpicks
• Assorted fresh and dried fruits, nuts, vegetables, and mini pretzel sticks and twists, for decorating
• Peanut butter
• Googly eyes (optional)

1. To stand each potato upright, create a tripod by pushing three toothpicks into the bottom, leaving 1/2 inch protruding (later, you can attach feet over the toothpicks to conceal them).

2. Designate the top of the potato as the head, or attach a separate, smaller potato head with toothpicks.

3. Put out an assortment of fresh and dried fruits, nuts, vegetables, and pretzels (see our list of suggestions, below). Let each child use toothpicks to attach soft items to the potato body. Attach hard items, like nuts and pretzels, with peanut butter. To add pistachio shells, cut small, curved slits into the potato and push them in. Stick on googly eyes with peanut butter.