Thursday, November 15, 2012

Thankful Turkey Treat

This past week we were invited to a Thankful Party and we decided to surprise our friends with a little turkey treat.IMG_0487

Of course, I wasn’t the mastermind behind this idea.  Can you guess where I found it?  You all are so smart.  I seem to find everything on Pinterest these days.  Anyway, the original idea came from Family Fun, but I learned about it through Ducks in a Row.  It was originally designed to give to teachers.  We adapted it a bit to fit our needs. 

Instead of making just 1 cookie, we made 12! So, in the end this was more of a “mommy project” then a kiddo project.  I would have love for Lil’man to write on each of the feathers, but I didn’t think he would be able to do it for all 60 of them.  If we were just giving it to a few people I totally would have had him do the writing.  He’s own writing would have made it even more precious!

Here’s what he did to help make this terrific thankful turkey treat.

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He and Daddy helped to roll out the peanut butter cookie dough.  (I cheated and bought ready-dough.)  Then while he was sleeping, my husband and I wrapped the cookies is plastic wrap and added tape to the back to make sure it stayed wrapped.  Then my husband traced the feathers for me.  Finally I cut out the feathers, wrote on them and taped them to the back of our turkeys.  (Make sure you fold the paper to cut more than one feather out at a time.)

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Then my husband designed a little turkey head. When the boy woke up the next day, he finished the cookies off by taping the turkey heads on each cookie. 

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I think they turned out so cute!! These would be great for anyone.  Just replace the word friend with whom ever you want to give one to – grandma, cousin, teacher, coach, etc. 

Do you make anything special to hand out for Thanksgiving?

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