Hide the Turkey

So Aaron came home with an unusual homework assignment.  A fun one but an unusual one.  In class they had read a book about a class who took a field trip to a turkey farm in November,  and once they learned what the fate of the turkeys would be for Thanksgiving they each took a turkey and disguised it so that the farmer could not find it.

So Aaron come home from school with a turkey printed on a piece of card stock and instructions from his teacher that he had a little over week to think of how to disguise his turkey.  He could not just color it she wanted something creative and we as parents were encouraged to help.   ( I like it when teachers tell you if they want you to help with something or not.  since Aaron is my oldest its' hard for me to know what my part is as the parent,  how much I should help or when I should just encourage and let their own creativity do the work)  So Aaron and I pondered about how to disguise his turkey.  I finally had an idea.  and when I ran it by him he seemed to really like it and get excited!  

So He and Bridgett and I went to walmart and he picked out all the "pieces" that we would need to make it work and the rest of the week we worked on it one step at a time.    We spent so much time talking and working on it that I had to make a copy of the turkey so that Bridgett could have a turkey to work on too!

In the end this was our result.   Aaron love it and I have to admit that while it was a lot of work it was a lot of fun to work on it with him.




All in all we had a great time and I think we successfully disguised the turkey!   What do you think?

Comments

  1. TamaraFebruary 5, 2012 at 6:08 PM

    Love the turkey. You definitely had me fooled so I'm sure the farmer would have never found him!

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