Thanksgiving Earrings

"My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor." -Phyllis Diller


I like the thought of Thanksgiving: getting together with friends, family, and neighbors to celebrate the harvest and give thanks for what they all have.  (If only the mass murder and stealing of land didn't occur after the fact).  I do love all the foods though.  Turkey, mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie (baked without the cinnamon).  In order to show my love of Thanksgiving foods, I made some earrings of my favorites.

Materials:

• Brown Polymer Clay
• Orange Polymer Clay
• White Polymer Clay
• Head Pin
• Fish Hook Earrings
• Toothpick

Directions:

1. Form a oval ball out of brown clay.
2. Create two drumsticks out of brown clay.
3. Attach white clay to the bottom of both of the drumsticks.  
4. Attach drumsticks to the main part of the turkey.
5. Create a circle out of brown clay.  
6. Add an orange circle of orange clay onto of the circle of brown clay.
7. Create a snake of brown clay. Wrap it around the outside of the pie.  Create the pressed crust look but pressing a toothpick around the outside. 
8. Create a snake of white clay.  Spiral on the center of the pie to create a whipped topping look.  
9. Insert headpins through the and of the fishhook earrings and attach to the earrings.
10. Bake at 225 for ten minutes.

The classic Thanksgiving book, A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting, tells the story of Mr. and Mrs. Moose and their hunt for Turkey.  This is a cute story about friendship and how Thanksgiving is about togetherness, not necessarily what is on the table.