Step-by-step tutorial
Step 1
For our turkey bowling pins, we made paper feathers. If you have feathers on hand, you can simply use those.
First, cut the paper into a rectangle. The length will be the height of the feather which you'll glue onto your bottle. So you might want to size it up against your bottle.
Then, fold the paper in half and cut out half of a feather shape so that you have a feather when you open the fold.Step 2
Now you're going to make the barbs of the feather. With your feather folded, cut at a slant into the middle, along the edge. Don't cut all the way through. Keep making cuts all the way down.
Step 3
When you open up the fold, you have your feather! I have to admit that we found this to be rewarding. The fringing makes the feather look pretty cool.
We were making a set of 6 pins with 4 feathers each. So we repeated the steps for each one.Step 4
Then we cut out the shape of the turkey's head/neck, beak, and wattle.
Step 5
Glue the pieces that you cut out as well as the googly eyes onto the bottle.
Step 6
To complete your turkey, flip the bottle over and glue a set of feathers onto the back.
Final result!
Now grab a ball, and you're ready to bowl! On top of playing, my kids created a scoreboard to keep track of everyone's points. (I loved this because it's a way to bring a little math to the fun.) Hope you have as much fun as we did with this game!