10 LISTS OF TEN FOR THANKSGIVING : 10 Things You Can Do With Turkey (Besides Eating)

1 Get your gobbler from a turkey farm, complete with feathers. Save all the fluffy stuff, dye it dynamite colors and use it to decorate your kids’ costumes, stuff pillows, make feather boas.

2 A turkey carcass makes great sculpture. To turn your bird into yard art: boil all remaining meat off the bone, allow carcass to dry, paint with clear varnish and “plant” the skeletal sculpture in your cactus patch amid sand.

3 Turn the wishbone into haute decor: gild it with gold paint. Use as part of your floral decoration next Thanksgiving . . . or collect wishbones over the years and hang them on your kitchen wall as symbols of good luck.

4 Turkeys are natural pinatas. Suspend the baked and stuffed bird over the kids’ table and let them whack it apart. A new take on an old tradition your guests will remember for years.

5 Drum sticks, which no one ever wants to eat, can be coated with Varathane and used to pound a drum. Using carcass parts to bang your bongo is considered very manly.

6 Turkey feet, usually left on the cutting-room floor, can be used to make witty earrings or other jewelry.

7 Try dressing up your bird for real this year--and taking her out to do the turkey trot. Cabbage Patch Doll clothes will fit an 11-to-14 pound turkey.

8 Before cooking, entertain your youngest guests by using the raw bird as a puppet. Simply place your hand inside the turkey cavity and dance that baby up and down the kitchen counter, while using your best falsetto. Good for lots of laughs.

9 Play “Guess the Body Part” with the giblets. Few people have any experience with the bits and pieces that come wrapped in the body bag. Winner gets the neck.

10 Turn that turkey into a household pet. Animal lovers will be thrilled to hear, from the National Turkey Federation, that turkeys are not really dumb. They just act that way.