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Turkey Football Toss Thanksgiving Game

A fun Thanksgiving game for the whole family
Author: Melissa Haines

Equipment

  • If you don't have a couple of trees to set the turkey game in between, then you'll need some poles on either side of the game that are set deep enough into the ground for support PVC pipe is a cheap way to add 2 poles for support. They should be around 5-6 ft tall
  • Footballs It would be great if you had 3 footballs so you don't have to retrieve a football every time someone throws one

Materials

  • 2 yards Brown Material 4 ft. wide
  • 5 Fat Quarters - different colors I picked out 5 colorful fat quarters for the feathers. Then, I grabbed a light brown in contrast to the big fabric for the turkey face. I also grabbed orange for the beak
  • 1 piece material for the beak orange
  • 2 Googly Eyes You'll want to get big googly eyes.
  • 1 2 oz. Glue - Get good fabric glue. I like to use a brand called Fabri-Tac.
  • 1 pair Scissors It's important to have scissors that easily cut through fabric.
  • 1 package twisted nylon or twisted polyester rope You'll need a rope that is strong enough to withstand hard hits from a football
  • strong tape I had some Gorilla Tape that is really strong and helped reinforce the corners

Instructions

  • Set the larger brown material on a work surface
  • Open up the colorful fat quarters that you bought for the turkey feathers and cut them down the middle - you'll only need one half for a feather
  • Round out one end of the half to make a feather
  • Open the light brown fat quarter and cut a large turkey head that is about 3 to 3&1/2 feet in diameter
  • Cut a beak out of your orange fat quarter and cut a long piece of leftover red fabric for the gobble
  • Position the feathers in a fanned-out pattern on the dark brown material
  • Place the head in the center of the feathers and reposition the feathers if you need to
  • Once you've got everything in the position you like, then glue the pieces down
  • Add the beak, eyes, and gobble to the head
  • Use a circle template that is bigger than your football to trace circles onto the end of the feathers
  • Cut those out, glue any loose pieces of material down
  • Fold the corners over for extra reinforcement and glue them
  • Cut a couple of slits into each corner for the rope to go through
  • Cut long pieces of rope and slide one end through a slit and back through the other one giving the corners 2 pieces of rope for more support
  • Finally, reinforce the corners and rope by taping them on both sides with Gorilla tape or really strong duct tape
  • Tie your turkey toss game between 2 sturdy poles like PVC pipe or tie it between two trees

Playing

  • Set out a marker for people to stand behind
  • Each feather should be assigned a point value
  • Players will have 3 tries to get the most possible points
  • Then, the next player gets a turn
  • The play continues until someone has reached 21 points or your set number agreed on before the game

Team Play

  • Divide into teams
  • Assign point values to each feather
  • Each player gets three chances to throw the football through the targets before the other team gets a turn
  • Play continues until a set number of points is reached which is usually 21

Notes

Footballs should be smaller in diameter than the circles in the feathers