Bee's Painted Turkey Pumpkin

In yesterday's "Home Comforts" post, I mentioned Bee's Thanksgiving turkey pumpkin. Joanna left a comment that she would like to make some, so I wanted to explain how we did it, in case anyone else would like to give it a try.

Because Halloween week was so hectic and crazy, we never managed to paint the girls' pumpkins. We decided that since Halloween is over, maybe we should give one of the pumpkins a Thanksgiving theme. I suggested to Bee that it might be fun to make a pumpkin that looks like a turkey, and she agreed.

My husband helped her mold play dough onto the pumpkin's stem, to make the turkey's head. Then they painted the entire thing with a can of brown spray paint that my husband found out in his shop. When the pumpkin was dry, I printed a feather template, and Bee traced it onto scraps of cardstock from my scrapbook stash. She glued each feather to a popsicle stick with Tacky Glue, and my husband cut slits in the pumpkin rind with a knife so the sticks could be easily inserted. The eyes and beak are made from modeling clay.

I think the finished pumpkin will be a very cute centerpiece for our Thanksgiving table, and Bee had a great time with this project.

Up next is Cakie's pumpkin. She wants it to be an orange cat, like our cat, Pumpkin, which seems fitting. Her pumpkin is still slightly green, so my husband spray-painted it orange, but orange spray paint is, well...very, very orange.

It will be a cat like no one has ever seen before!