For this activity I bought a pack of colorful craft feathers. I had originally wanted to play with the feathers by sorting them into groups by color and counting the number of feathers in each group. From there I thought we could do a craft with the feathers and decorate a turkey. However, Izzy wanted absolutely nothing to do with the feathers either in crafts mode or sorting and counting mode and I ended up decorating the turkey by myself.
For the craft part of the activity I cut a square of contact paper and taped it sticky side up on our coffee table. From there I quickly cut out a circle of paper and drew a turkey face. (Don't judge my turkey face, I'm not very crafty either). Once my turkey face was in place of my contact paper, all I had to do was arrange the feathers around the face to make it look like a turkey. You can see it in the pictures below.
Skills learned: Colors, counting, sorting, creativity
Age: 12m+
Rating (out of 4 stars): 3