A Chicken to Crow About

A long-handled wooden turner makes a plucky decoration for your room or kitchen—and a great reminder to bring your passions to every job! In a few simple steps, you’ll have a cute companion you’ll want to crow about!

Supplies

• Printable Comb and Scarf Template
• Long-handled wooded turner, available in kitchen supply stores
• Red felt
• Yellow bake-able clay
• Fabric, 12 inches square
• A small piece of white felt or fleece (optional)
• White paint (or any color you would like)
• Black marker
• Fabric glue
• Glue gun
• Paint brush

Directions

1. Paint the wooden turner, let dry
2. Cut the scarf from the piece of fabric
3. Make a beak from the yellow clay and bake it according to package directions

To make the comb

1. Cut out the comb from the red felt
2. Fold the felt in half and glue the end together with the fabric glue
3. Cut short strips from the folded top of the felt, about ½-inch to ¾ -inch in length
4. Round the corners of the strips slightly

To make the scarf

1. Fold the fabric in half
2. With the long, straight edge of the scarf template along the fold, cut out the scarf
3. With the fabric glue, glue the two sides of the scarf together so that you have two “right” sides
4. Let dry

To assemble the chicken

1. Pinch the bottom of the comb together so that the strips open and the felt pleats a little
2. With the glue gun attach the comb to the back of the painted turner, keeping the bottom pinched together
3. Attach the beak to the front of the turner
4. Draw eyes on the chicken with the black marker
5. Tie the scarf around the neck of the handle, hold in place with a drop of glue in the back if necessary
6. To make tail feathers in a turner with a hole in the handle, pinch together a small folded piece of white felt or fleece and push it through the hole in the handle of the turner.
7. Cut or arrange to look like feathers

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