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Thanksgiving Projects on the Web

Here are some great turkey crafts on the web:

Paper Model Turkey from spacestation42.com

An easy print-and-fold project, in full color or black and white, with easy to follow instructions.

This one is absolutely adorable. Print-and-fold, color or black and white. From DLTK's Holiday Crafts for Kids:

"This is a fun craft to do with the entire extended family. The child can hand a slip of paper (tail piece) to each family member and ask them to write what they are thankful for. After everyone has made their contribution, the child can assemble the turkey."

EnchantedLearning.com's Thankful Wreath of Leaves

EnchantedLearning.com is chock full educational articles and fun crafts for kids. This is an easy activity, using a paper plate and a leaf template you can print on construction paper.

MakingFriends.com's Turkey "Friends" paper doll

Print, color and dress up some thanksgiving paper dolls, just for fun, or to decorate cards, doors and windows.

Turkey Napkin Centerpiece

Fold a turkey centerpiece from three linen napkins, as only Martha Stewart can. Great step by step photos.

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Bat-Toad?

Halloween is around the corner, so you'd think that this is a Photoshopped image of a toad ready for a night of Trick-or-Treating in his bat costume.

Except this is not an altered image. This photo was taken by park ranger Yufani Olaya at a remote guard station in Peru's Cerros de Arnotape National Park. In an interview with Rainforest Expeditions (blog.perunature.com), Olaya says that "out of nowhere the bat just flew directly into the mouth of the toad, which almost seemed to be sitting with its mouth wide open."

The mountainous Cerrros de Arnotape National Park, where Olaya took the photo, is spread out over 90,000 hectares. The park's geography features a combination of dry tropical forests and zones, arid zones, and Andean mountain range ecosystems that support a tremendous amount of biodiversity such as Andean condors, spotted cats, red deer, gray deer, anteaters, spectacled bears, Guayaquil squirrels and scarlet macaws.

To learn why the bat may have been flying so close to the ground, and what happened to it, read the full article at Rainforest Expeditions.

To fold an origami bat, click here.

To fold an origami frog, click here.

Halloween Crafts and Origami: Black Cats

Print and Fold a pair of Origami Black Cats for Halloween!

Choose a cat to print:
Happy?	Scary!

Difficulty: Easy for Children

Directions:

1. Print and cut out origami along outer solid lines.

2. Fold back diagonally as shown.

3. Turn your origami over, so that the printed side faces down.

4. Fold ear down diagonally, as shown. Repeat on other side.

5. Fold ear up as shown. Repeat on other side.

6a. Turn origami over with printed side up. Fold back white "tip" on top of cat's head.
6b. Repeat with the white corner on cat's chin.
6c. Now your cat is pau! (done)!

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Halloween: Pumpkin Mask

Print, cut and add ties...Happy Halloween!

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Halloween: Monster Mask

Print, cut and add ties...Happy Halloween!

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Halloween: Skull Mask

Print, cut and add ties...Happy Halloween!

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Halloween Skeleton

Make an articulated Dangling Skeleton for Halloween:

Difficulty: Easy

Materials:

Skeleton print out
Scissors
Hole puncher
Paper fasteners

Directions:

1. Print and cut out skeleton parts along outer lines.
PRINT:

2. Using a hole puncher, punch out red circles on joint tabs.

3. Assemble your skeleton using paper fasteners to secure the joints.

Halloween Monster Origami

Print and Fold a Monster Origami for Halloween!

Difficulty: Easy

Directions: (Follow the same directions as Cinco de Mayo doll)

1a. Print and cut out Halloween Monster's face and graveyard headstone along outer solid line.

1b. Cut out Halloween Monster body along outer solid line.
1c. Turn Halloween Monster body over so that the printed side is facing down.

2a. Crease along diagonal line as shown. Unfold.
2b. Repeat crease along diagonal line on other side, as shown. Unfold.
2c. Turn origami over so that the printed side faces up.
2d. Crease down along horizontal line as shown. Unfold.

3a. With printed side facing down, carefully "tent" fold upper body forward, as shown.
3b. Fold Halloween Monster's legs forward, as shown.
3c. Repeat on other side.

4a. Glue head onto body.
4b. Glue graveyard headstone as desired.
4c. Your Halloween Monster Origami doll is finished!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

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