An edible Thanksgiving turkey craft recipe that you can use for a decorative Thanksgiving dinner table centerpiece. And then you can eat it up for a healthy dessert!

To make the Thanksgiving turkey craft edible , the kids used the following foods for the turkeys parts:

Bosc pear (head)

Melon (body)

Cheese (beak and tail feathers)

Red pepper (snood, feet and side feathers)

Raisins (eyes)

Grapes (tail feathers)

Bamboo skewers

Toothpicks

Here is how to assemble the turkey craft:

1. Stabilize the melon body by cutting a shallow slice off the rind to form a flat base. Using a section of bamboo skewer, attach a head to the melon, as shown.

2. Cut a cheese triangle beak and red pepper snood. Attach both, along with raisin eyes, to the head with sections of toothpick.

3. Cut red pepper feet and set them in place. For tail feathers, skewer cheese cubes and red grapes, then insert the skewers as shown. Pin pepper side feathers in place with toothpicks.

Hey Mimi, do you think Chico will try to chase our turkey, asked McAveler, only half kiddingly?

No McAveler, he is far too polite to do that even if he wanted to. He's such a good little Chihuahua and I love him very much!

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