Get those cereal boxes out of the recycling bin, grab your scissors and some glue and delight your family with colorful Thanksgiving table decorations.

With minimal effort and materials, you can transform used food packaging into cheerful holiday decor.  To make these fun cereal box turkeys, you need simply:

cereal boxes or other cardboard food packaging
glue stick or craft glue
scissors
optional: popsicle sticks, clothespins, cardboard roll, cardboard or foam core board scraps
preferably, but not necessarily: circle cutter

Read the directions here for assembling your cereal box turkeys.

Use popsicle sticks for standing your turkeys (or, rather, poking them into something).  Glue a clothespin to the back for clipping your turkey onto the edge of a plate, cup, place card, napkin or other table item.  Glue an inch wide piece of cardboard roll to the back of a small turkey and use as a napkin ring.  See photos below.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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