Kids Thanksgiving Feast: Popcorn Filled Paper Bag Turkey

Post by Sara Westbrook & Brittany Egbert for One Charming Party: onecharmingparty.com
Whether you call it the kids’ table at your family get together or a mini feast for a school classroom party, surprise little hands this year with an awesome kids Thanksgiving feast set just for them featuring this fun popcorn filled paper bag Thanksgiving turkey!

Cover the table in brown craft paper and provide little baskets of crayons so bored children can color. Use small items as part of your centerpiece that kids can touch–but not break–like mini pumpkins and gourds. And don’t forget to serve a turkey, a paper bag turkey full of popcorn of course.

Invite an adult guest of honor to “carve” the turkey with a real knife or scissors. Then everyone can enjoy some popcorn while they wait for the Thanksgiving Feast to start.

You will need: 3-4 bags of popcorn, a large brown grocery bag, 2 small brown lunch bags, a hot glue gun, scissors, white paper for the frills

Popcorn Filled Paper Bag Turkey Directions:

1. For the frill, take a sheet of 8 1/2 x 11″ white paper and cut it in half lengthwise. Fold the paper in half lengthwise and make small cuts with a pair of scissors on the folded half to create loops.

2. For the drumsticks, make one hand into a fist and stick it inside the lunch bag. With your other flat hand, press on the bag to mold and smash it down into a more rounded shape. Fill the bag 2/3 of the way with popcorn. Gather up the bottom of the bag and twist to keep it tight. Hot glue the beginning of the length of frill and wrap it around the bottom, twisted part of the lunch bag. Then hot glue the end of the white paper frill to keep it in place.

3. For the main bag, do the same thing as the drumstick to make the corners rounded. Fill the bag up full with popcorn. Fold the sides of the bag in and tuck the bottom edge under. Hot glue the edge shut. Hot glue the legs onto the sides of the “turkey.” It’s best to use a plain brown bag, but if you can only find one with writing on the outside, you can carefully turn the bag inside out and it will be just fine.

*If using buttered popcorn to fill the turkey, use parchment or wax paper to line the paper bag to avoid grease marks.

Post by Sara Westbrook & Brittany Egbert for One Charming Party: onecharmingparty.com. Photos by Nicole Hill Gerulat of www.nicolephoto.com