Small hands and fingers crafted even smaller paper turkeys in the pre-school C classroom of the Stuart Mesa Child Development Center,Nov. 19.

The hand-made turkeys will adorn the annual Harvest Family Luncheon, an event which invites parents to enjoy a Thanksgiving lunch with their children, Friday.

Special care was placed into every colorful detail to ensure each parent would receive a souvenir at the luncheon.

“I liked gluing the feathers on the turkey the most,” said Lily Bashara, after washing the colored glue and sticky feathers off her hands.

Each child was given brown construction paper to trace and cut the outline of their hands. Chloe Reyes, student, CR-C, inspected the brown lines left on her hands before moving on to attach her cutouts as turkey tail feathers.

Blue, pink, green and yellow plastic eyes gave the brown cardboard bodies “sight” and color.

Cai Walker, a student at the CDC, could not decide on one color for the eyes so she gave her turkey one pink and one blue eye.

The tiny tikes looked forward to sharing a meal during the school day with their parents. Dylan Rebott, a pre-school student, glued an orange beak to his turkey and talked about his mom planning to come have lunch with him at the school.

Although he is usually at the CDC all day, his hopes were high about going home and napping after turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.

The only bad part about these turkeys was not being able to eat them with stuffing said Nydia Levine, a CR-C student.