Thanksgiving Turkey for Preschoolers

This turkey is a quick, fun, easy project that turns out cute and is great for young children's fine motor.

Materials
Styrofoam ball
Multiple colors of pipe cleaners
Brown paint
Paint brush

1. First paint the styrofoam ball brown
( I did this with The Prince's Sunday school class so we left the styrofoam ball white instead of painting it brown)

2. Next use the pipe cleaners for feathers. They easily poke into the styrofoam ball. Poke both ends close together so they look like feathers. We used 5 colors for 5 feathers.

3. Then cut up a few pipe cleaners for legs, eyes, and a beak. The beak and eyes were about 3/4 inch and the legs about 1 1/2-2 inches.

4. Stick in the eyes, beak, and legs and your turkey is finished!

The Sunday school children really enjoyed making these and were proud to take them home to show their parents!

Rainbow Pasta

Tonight The Prince and I decided to shake up the lunch packing process and make rainbow pasta. So we gathered our supplies...

Pasta (we used shells)
Pots (the more you have the quicker you can make multiple colors)
Liquid food coloring
Spoon for stirring
Strainer

Next we put one cup of pasta in 6 bowls so The Prince could easily dump each bowl of pasta into each color.

Then we took our pots and put about 2 cups of water in each and then The Prince put between 4-8 drops of food coloring (depending on the color) into each pot. We boiled the colored water.
***we used two pots at a time***

Once the water was boiling The Prince dumped one bowl of noodles into each pot.

The noodles will cook and the colors will turn very bold.

Strain and rinse the noodles until the water runs clear.

Mix the noodles together in a dish and enjoy your rainbow pasta!

As the noodles cook you can add food coloring as needed to get the colors you want. Any sauce can be used, we chose Alfredo sauce which looked great. The Prince and The Princess enjoyed eating the noodles plain as well!

Popsicle Stick Turkeys

The prince and I made these cute little turkeys on our date night last night. They were both easy and fun! Since these are fairly simple I think ages as young as 18 months could do this project with your help.

Materials
5 popsicle sticks (we used larger ones)
1 ice-cream stick (body)
Paint in desired colors
Paint brushes
Glue

Optional
Eyes

First you paint all the sticks. We did brown bodies and each large stick (feathers) a different color. Then we let them dry.

Next we glued eyes onto to skinny part of the ice-cream stick. (you could draw eyes if desired)
Then we glued one end of each Popsicle stick to another in a fan type array.
The last thing we glued was the turkeys body to the feathers.
Once the project was completely dry, we wrote one thing we were thankful for on each "feather." Since the prince can't spell well enough yet, he told me and I wrote for him. He then "wrote" his own as well and just told me what they said :)

This was very entertaining and fun for both myself and my son. I think they turned out cute too!

This is Me

I always refer to my children as my prince and my princess. So, I guess that makes me the queen. I like that.

I am the mother to two beautiful children. My prince is 4 years old and my princess is 8 months. Everyday I strive to give them the best experiences available in this world and to teach them the good and how to avoid the bad. I love doing art activities with them, the neat and the messy ones. The prince just started swimming lessons a few weeks ago, and is doing well. He also has asked to play hockey this winter, which will be fun to watch. The princess has found a love for digging in purses. I want to look for a small purse for her to dig through with kid friendly items for her to find.

I enjoy sewing, scrapbooking, making hair bows, crocheting, baking (even when it doesn't turn out so well), and anything else I can find to craft. I enjoy doing these products on my own time and also enjoy the "help" I get from the little ones. Most of the things I make are for my children, so as I come up and find neat ideas and make items I will post them here to share.

I love finding new items and ways to live a healthier and "greener" life. I am a cloth diaper addict, so you can be sure to read several ramblings about new diapers, what I find works well and what doesn't, and other information on the subject. Though, I also enjoy finding other great "green" products, ideas, and recipes.

That about sums up The Queen's House. I hope to help other parents make their journey through parenthood the most exciting, loving, and rewarding experience of their lives. Enjoy.