Thanksgiving Art Projects (Fun Homework!)

The boys both brought home art projects on Friday for homework.  The teachers each included a note that said the projects were for the children to do with their families--they also stated that they wanted the children to be creative.  I always love it when a teacher sends a note home that reads, "You're only limited by your imagination."  We had a lot of fun coming up with ideas and letting the boys help decide how to decorate them.

We started with Logan's art project--there is a large turkey hanging in the classroom and each student was given a feather to decorate for the turkey's tail.  Logan colored his feather in fall colors and then we went out and grabbed some fall leaves.  He glued the leaves on his feather and was very proud of the outcome. He only wanted four leaves because he is four years old.

Alex had an entire (although small) turkey to decorate.  We had even more fun with this because there was more space and more could be done with it.  We have several catalogs we have received and a lot of them have shoes in them.  We went through and found some Converse shoes and put them on the turkey. Every cool turkey running around needs a pair of Converse shoes--right?  Alex painted his turkey first and then he glued puzzle pieces (that have been mixed together and are no longer used) on the turkey.  We rolled up pieces of orange construction paper and he glued them on the tips of the feathers and even gave the turkey a little hat.  His final touch was to give the turkey shoes--one white shoe and one black shoe. 

These homework assignments were a lot of fun--I wish we could do art projects every week!