How to make a Floral Turkey Centerpiece for Thanksgiving

I am thankful for my children because they have given me so much purpose.

I am thankful for our health, because there are so many that don’t even have that.

I am thankful for our home that we worked so hard renovating.

I am thankful for every family dinner because those memories are worth 10,000 hours of cleaning dishes.

I am thankful that my life allows me to be able to pick up and drop off my babies at school myself.

I am thankful for my gift of creativity and the ability to share it with everyone else.

I am thankful for my divorce because it took losing someone for me to find myself.

I am thankful I can see the good in things now and not just the hurt.

I am so very thankful to everyone who has supported me.

I am so thankful for my life, because it’s a really, really good one.

: )
Scroll down to see my Thanksgiving centerpiece. I included a tiny envelope that says count your blessings so everyone can write what they are thankful for and place it in the envelope at dinner.

What are you thankful for?

Floral Turkey Centerpiece

What you need

1 medium size pumpkin

1 small gourd

Drill & 1/8” or larger drill bit

Dried flowers, straw, or fresh greenery

Felt

Scissors

Crazy Glue

Small Envelope

Clothespin

Directions

1. Drill rows of small holes in a curved line across the back of your pumpkin. You want to do about 3 rows deep of holes for your flowers and curve your line slightly so it resembles the feathers on a turkey. Don’t go past the middle half of the pumpkin.

2. Scrape off any excess pumpkin scraps and dry with a paper towel. Insert the back row with the tallest dried flowers and cut them down as you go closer in to where the head will be. My back feathers are 14”, the middle row is 12”, and then some smaller 10” pieces up front. I kept mine tall, but you could easily make your dried flowers all shorter as well.

3. Arrange the flowers so they resemble a turkey. Place some of the larger, more droopy flowers on the sides of the pumpkin and the tall, more straight straw pieces in the center and so forth.

4. I placed my gourd on the pumpkin and did not glue it because it fit pretty well. If you are going to glue it, I would use a tiny amount of crazy glue. Just remember that when you start hot gluing your “turkey”, it will rot faster.

5. Cut a diamond shaped piece of yellow or orange felt for your turkey’s beak and hot glue or crazy glue it over the stem. Then cut the snoods using either red or peach felt. I used peach because it matched my table better : ) Glue the snoods underneath the beak. If you wish to add eyes you can glue craft googley eyes or just use tiny pieces of black felt as I did so the eyes look closed.