Nut Critters

We live in a neighborhood with lots of nuts.  Not my neighbors - they're perfectly sane.  I mean actual nuts...lots of nut-bearing trees.  Chestnuts, walnuts, hazelnuts and acorns abound this time of year and Susannah and I invariably collect the really good lookin' ones when we're out walking around.  Then, we use them for crafty purposes.   

We used some glitter glue, felt, beads and a hot glue gun to create these little nut critters.  The turkey has a chestnut body, an acorn cap head and helicopter leaves (you know, the things that drop from maple trees) for its feathers.   

The hedgehog is my favorite.  He's got a chestnut body and an acorn cap face.  We glued zig-zagged strips of felt onto the chestnut to make his spines.  Isn't he cute?

 
Isn't there an old saying...something about "a hedgehog in the hand is worth two in the bush?"  I think that's how it goes. 

Half of a walnut shell transitions nicely to a turtle shell, don't you think? 

I'm not sure what we're going to do with these nut critters, but they're a great rainy day craft project and, judging by the weather forecast, I think we'll be making more in the days to come.