April is Earth month! Did you celebrate Earth Day last week? We did!

The kids and I are now on a mission to use at least one recycled item in our crafts.

Here is our latest Upcycled Container craft: The Snacks on the Go!

It is the perfect container to hold the yummiest snacks from trail mix to fish crackers or any of your favorite dry snacks.

To create your own personalized snacks on the go container here is what you will need:

-A Powder Drink Mix Empty Container

-Foam sheets in at least 3 different colors

-Scissors

-Ribbon

-Adhesive (foam glue, gel strips, or just purchase foam with peel and stick)

-Foam Stickers

-Hole puncher

-Circle punch (optional)

-Marker and Glitter Glue (optional)

To get started you will need to follow these super simple steps:

-Cut your foam to fit around your container. We used different sized strips; they don’t need to be perfect. Get fancy with it!

-Adhere them to your container and secure each strip with extra adhesive on the ends. We used gel glue strips.

-Hole punch the bottom part of the container and knot the ribbon. Ribbon should be long enough to be used around your child’s neck to carry the container.

-Decorate your container to your liking. Don’t forget to decorate the bottom and the top! We used glitter glue, a marker to put our names and Foam Stickers!

Walmart has a variety of affordable cute foam stickers to help personalize your craft!

All done! Now fill it up with your favorite snacks and take it on the go! Perhaps your next outdoor walk or even a day at the park!

Remember to love your Earth and every little way of recycling or upcycling helps!

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“When the holidays are near, I like to sit and create holiday crafts with the kids. It makes us get in the holiday spirit as well as spending quality time together. I hope my kids look back and remember the times when we would sit, talk and be crafty!”

When my grandparents were alive the production was big. Food was served from morning to night. The grown ups would sit and talk while the kids went in and out of the house playing with each other.

I remember one year, my Tia O brought crafts to keep us entertained. She was always the crafty one.

This year I am far from the family, I decided to keep on with the crafts and make a thanksgiving craft with a Latino twist.

What cooler turkey to make then one made out of Hojas de Maiz???

One of the foods we cook during the holidays is tamales. I find that we over buy corn husk and so this is the perfect supply to make an activity with during thanksgiving. After the tamales are prepared and you have a pile of unopened hojas de maiz, Let’s Make a Pavo!

To make you own Pavo de hojas de maiz you will need:

•Corn husk about 3 or 4 hojas-it really depends how full you want your turkey feel free to go wild with it.

•Turkey Body Template You can download one HERE

•Permanent Markers- preferably bright colors highlighters work too.

•Adhesive- Glue dots seem to work best

•8.5×11 brown cardstock

•2×3 yellow & red cardtock

•stapler

•2 wiggly eyes

STEP 1- Color the corn husk. Get creative make designs if you want.

STEP 2-Trace and Cut out your turkey body. Here’s the Template!

Step 3-Cut the corn husk in half or thirds depending on how big the hojas are. Assemble them around your turkey body to see the shape and amount you want.

Step 4-Gather the hojas in groups and staple them together at the bottom. Once all groups are done staple them together to create one big feather-like element.

Step 5- Make sure to staple several times. You don’t want them coming apart. Then adhere glue dots all over the center where you stapled. I put about 6 -8 glue dots all around.

Step 6- Adhere your turkey body. This is what it should look like. Make sure to press firmly so the glue dots stick to the body.

Step 7- Cut out a beak and Gobble(the red part under the turkeys beak) Get creative any shapes work. For the gobbler I cut out a curvy tongue like shape and cut a slit in the middle. For the beak I just cut a triangle shape from the square shape paper.

Adhere the gobble first then the beak on top as shown below.

Make sure to add your eyes at this time also.

Step 8- From leftover hojas de maiz cut 2 little rectangles for legs. Adhere them to the back of the body. This is what it should look like.

ALL DONE! Hang your turkey and enjoy the holiday!