Paint a thin layer on the tops of the scales of the pinecone using red, orange, and yellow acrylic paint. Stagger the colors to get a good variety of the different colors all around the pinecone.

Preheat your hot glue gun. While waiting for the paint to dry and the hot glue gun to heat up, cut a beak (triangle shape) out of the yellow craft foam sheet and a snood (teardrop shape) out of the red construction paper. Cut one beak and one snood for each turkey you are making. Set these pieces aside.

Form the turkey’s face out of a pipe cleaner by spiraling the whole length of the pipe cleaner. Once you reach the end of the pipe cleaner, secure the end with a dot of hot glue.

If beak has an adhesive backing, remove the paper and stick the snood to the adhesive (back side). If it doesn’t have adhesive backing, use a small dot of hot glue to stick the snood to the beak. Place a small dot of hot glue in the middle of the turkey’s face (spiraled pipe cleaner) and then place the beak on the dot of hot glue.

Add two small dots of hot glue on the face above the beak for the eyes, and glue the googly eyes side by side.

By now, the paint on the pinecone should be mostly dry. If not, you can wait a few more minutes before continuing on to the next step to allow the paint to finish drying. One the paint is dry, add a few drops of hot glue to the scales at the top (on the side) of the pinecone and place the turkey’s face in this spot. Press and hold while the glue sets up.

Fold a pipe cleaner in half and cut.

Form a U shape with one cut half of the pipe cleaner, and bend each end upwards to form the turkey’s feet. The feet will be about ½ inch in length.

Turn the pinecone upside down and apply hot glue in a U shape for the pipe cleaner legs/feet. Attach the turkey’s legs/feet and hold in place while the glue dries.

Your pinecone turkey is complete! Enjoy your new little turkey!