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Grades K-2

Thanksgiving

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Contents

Indian Sign Language Chart (Social Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2Pilgrim Hat Math (Math) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3“The Pinecone Turkey” - Poem and Activities (Language Arts, Math, Social Studies) .4Thankful List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Timmy Turkey Gobbles Up Good Books (Language Arts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14Tom Turkey on a Bun (Nutrition) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16Turkey Day (All Subjects) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17Turkey Facts (Social Studies) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19Turkey Feathers Activities (Math) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20Turkey in the Straw Gives Thanks (Language Arts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22Uncle Alligator’s Mayflower Soak (Language Arts) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23

Art Activities:3-Dimensional Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24Cork Ship Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25Cornucopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26Create a Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27Magazine Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28Rolled Fruit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29Standing Turkey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30Thanksgiving Day (coloring sheet) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31A Thanksgiving Quilt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32Turkey Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33Turkey Cup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .34Turkey Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35

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Indian Sign Language Chart

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Write a rebus story using the Indian pictures to help you. Then, cut the squares andmake a set of flashcards. Learn the words for a Thanksgiving treat!

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Count the number of dots on the first pilgrim hat. Match them up with the samenumber of items on the second hat.


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Pilgrim Hat Math

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“THE PINECONE TURKEY," from Poetry Place Anthology Maceby Mabel Maurine Henderson

(New York: Instructor Books, 1983)

Language Arts Teaching ActivitiesSkill: Descriptive Vocabulary

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Enjoy choral reading the poem using exaggerated expression.Take the viewpoint of the turkey. What details would you add to thepoem?

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What attributes of real turkeys do they describe? Make a turkey-shapedbook that includes these words. Compare the attributes of different kindsof turkeys using Idea Sheet I. Add other pages to your book usingdescriptive words for wild turkeys, domestic turkeys, and turkeys indrawings or constructed from craft materials.In this poem the pinecone turkey is glad he sat still. Make a list of othertimes when it’s good to be still. Discuss your reasoning with a panel offriends.

Math Teaching ActivitiesSkill: Geometric Shapes

Use basic geometric shapes and add details to them to create abstractpictures of the pinecone turkey.

Use Idea Sheet II to survey friends and discover who has made apinecone turkey before and who hasn’t. Graph your results.

"The Pinecone Turkey" Activities

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"The Pinecone Turkey" Activities, Cont'd

• What other natural objects have the shape of a turkey? (a gourd, an egg, arock, etc.). As a home project, each student constructs a turkey of naturalmaterials. Display the turkeys at school.

•Collect homemade turkeys for an evaluation activity at school. Havechildren use the following rating system for the class collection of natural-material turkeys:

Children cut construction paper shapes of a heart, hammer, and dollarbill. Each student places the heart by the turkey he or she likes the most,the hammer by the turkey he or she thinks took the most effort, andthe dollar bill by the turkey he or she thinks wouldmake. As a class, draw conclusions from the collectivesymbols.

Social Studies Teaching Activities

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Traditions

Describe your Thanksgiving dinner table. Give lots of details. Do yourfamily traditions include turkey decorations? What aspects of Thanksgiv-ing are the same from year to year?Begin a new family tradition: Use pinecones to construct something foranother holiday!Compare the main elements of the pinecone turkey to other traditionalholiday symbols using Idea Sheet III. For example, how are a turkey anda jack-o’-lantern alike? (They can both be big and fat!)List your favorite family holiday traditions. Why are they so special toyou? Write a sentence about each tradition on a corresponding shape.String the shapes together to make a holiday streamer.

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Science Teaching ActivitiesSkill: Pinecones

Draw pictures showing the story of a pinecone on Idea Sheet IV.Make a display of different kinds of pinecones and books about pinecones.

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Write a story about a pinecone character. Include scientific facts in yourf story.

Considering your climate, make recommendations for choosing and plant-ing conifers (cone-bearing trees). Compile the recommendations in a gar-den guide.

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by Mabel Maurine Henderson

Once a little pinecone turkey,With feathers stiff and hard,

Wished that he could gobble loudlyLike turkeys in the yard.

They gobbled high, they gobbled low,They gobbled with a trill;

And the little pinecone turkeyCould only keep quite still.

But when he stood on the tableOn last Thanksgiving Day,

And saw a big brown turkey thereHis heart was light and gay.

His heart sang high, his heart sang low,His heart sang with a trill;

And the little pinecone turkeyWas glad he’d kept quite still!

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"The Pinecone Turkey"

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Directions: Research to find attributes of different kinds of turkeys.List them on the web.

How are all turkeys alike and different?


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"The Pinecone Turkey" Idea Sheet I

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Directions: Survey friends to see who has made a craft turkeybefore. Graph your information.

never pinecone construc- hand- other othermade turkey tion - shapeda craft paper turkeyturkey turkey


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"The Pinecone Turkey" Idea Sheet II

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"The Pinecone Turkey" Idea Sheet III

Directions: On the chart, write words that describe each item.

THE PINECONE THE BIG BROWNTURKEY THE TABLE TURKEY

Compare each object from the chart headings to a symbol from anotherholiday. For example,

A pinecone turkey is like a jack-o’-lantern because they both havefaces.

A pinecone turkey is like a

they both

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they both

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Directions: Illustrate the story of a pinecone. Add lots of details toshow all the possibilities.


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"The Pinecone Turkey" Idea Sheet IV

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"The Pinecone Turkey" Open-Ended Idea Sheet

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Thankful List

Objectives

• Students will learn to free-associate.

• Students will use their lists to write a poem or descriptive piece.

• Students will find commonality among their lists.

Materials

• Paper

• Pencils

Procedure

1. Students will be taught how to free-associate by watching the teachermodel the technique on the board. Share the definition of "freeassociation" with your students: the reporting of the first thought thatcomes to mind in response to a given stimulus (as a word).

2. Start by generating a list of things you are thankful for. Tell them thatyou will write down anything that comes to mind, without editing. Theobject of this exercise is to generate a long, diverse list.

3. Have students begin their lists.

4. After sufficient time, allow students to share their lists. It's importantto model enthusiasm for items on the lists that you have in common.

5. Students refer to their lists to write. Some suggestions are: descriptiveparagraphs, letters to people they are thankful for, posters of theirthankful lists, or poems.

6. Be sure to tell them that this technique is a very successful way toelicit writing.

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Timmy Turkey Gobbles Up Good BooksChildren’s Book Week is in November. Cut out Timmy’s body and head, and put them

together at the X with a paper fastener. Then, each day when you read a good book,color a feather and paste it onto Timmy. When Timmy is all dressed up, can you rememberthe story that each feather represents? Try it. Remember to color Timmy with brightcolors.

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Timmy Turkey Gobbles Up Good Books, Cont'd

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Tom Turkey on a BunTo make this yummy turkey treat, you will need:

paper platehamburger bunshredded turkey/mayo spreadcarrots (tail feathers)celery (neck)green olive (head)red pimento (wattle)peanut (beak)

Use your crayons to show what Tom Turkey will look like.

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Turkey Day

PREPARATION To the Teacher

You will need

• paint and pie tins for Arrival;• pictures of a turkey for Opening;

• fingerplay glove for Opening;• feather pattern for Activity 1;

• turkey body, feathers, and magnet for Activity 2;• feathers for Activity 3; and

• turkey on the bulletin board and feathers for Closing.

ARRIVAL Handprint

Have the children lay one hand in a pie tin containing tempera paint and then make a hand-print on their craft paper for today. Have them spread their fingers apart to resemble feathersin a turkey’s tail.

OPENING Turkey Talk

A turkey is a bird that has feathers over its body except on its head and neck. Identify the partsof a turkey’s body using pictures - feathers, tail, wings, feet, etc. The pouch-like area in frontof the throat is called a wattle. The female turkey is called a hen, and the male turkey is calleda tom. Turkeys have rather large beaks that must be clipped so they cannot eat dirty thingsthat are not good for them. With a clipped beak, they can only eat out of a turkey feeder. Theturkeys’ wing feathers also must be clipped; otherwise, the turkeys fly over the fence.

Fingerplay

Teach the children the following poem. You can make a visual with an old white dress glove,five turkey stickers, and Velcro®. Place the stickers on light cardboard and cut them out. GlueVelcro® on the end of each finger of the glove and on the back of each sticker. Now, stick eachturkey on a finger of the glove and you have five little turkeys to show the children during thepoem. Because you used Velcro® , the glove can be used again and again with different pictures or stickers.

Five Little Turkeys (traditional)Five little turkeys are we.

We slept all night in a tree.When cook came around,

We couldn’t be found.That’s why we’re here, you see.

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StoryRead one of the following stories: Sometimes It's Turkey, Sometimes It's Feathers, by Lorna Balian(Abingdon, 1986). How Spider Saved Turkey, by Robert Kraus (Windmill Books, 1973). Farmer Goff and His Turkey Sam, by Brian Schatell (Harper & Row, 1982).

CRAFT Handprint Turkey

Materials Needed:

handprint painted in Arrivalbrown construction papercircle and oval patternsscissors, crayons, glue

Explanation:Children trace and cut out a circle and an oval. Thechildren will paste the shapes on top of the handprint leaving the fingers to show above the circle. Children then use crayons to draw legs and a beak.

FREEPLAY Activity 1

Fringing Feathers - Have the children trace a feather pattern, cut it out, and fringe the edges.Provide a variety of colors from which to choose. (Save these feathers to be put on the bulletinboard in Closing.)

Activity 2

Fun with Magnets - Draw the head and body of a turkey on heavy paper. Cut several feathers for the turkey’s tail and attach a paper clip to each one. Lay the feathers on top of the turkey picture. The children hold a magnet under the paper and use it to move the turkey’s tail feathers into the proper place.

Activity 3

Painting with Feathers - Allow the children to use feathers to paint pictures. Use the rest of thepaint you mixed for the handprints made in Arrival.

CLOSING Bulletin Board

Prior to class, draw a large turkey (omitting the tail) and place it on the bulletin board. Passout the feathers cut in Freeplay Activity 1. As you say the following verse with the children,have them bring their feathers to the bulletin board to add to the turkey’s tail.

Use your eyes, use your eyesQuickly look and see,

If your feather is the color of mine,Bring it here to me.


Turkey Day, Cont'd

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• At one time, the turkey and the bald eagle were each considered as the nationalsymbol of America. Benjamin Franklin was one of those who argued passionately onbehalf of the turkey. Franklin felt the turkey, although "vain and silly," was abetter choice than the bald eagle, whom he felt was "a coward."

• According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more than 45 million turkeys arecooked and eaten in the U.S. at Thanksgiving - that's one-sixth of all turkeys sold inthe U.S. each year. American per-capita consumption of turkeys soared from 8.3pounds in 1975 to 18.5 pounds in 1999.

• In 1999, 2.7 billion pounds of turkey were processed in the United States.

• In 1995, retail sales of turkey reached approximately $4.4 billion. They wereexpected to reach $4.7 billion in 2000.

• Age is a determining factor in taste. Old, large males are preferable to young toms(males) because tom meat is stringy. The opposite is true for females: old hens aretougher birds.

• A turkey under 16 weeks of age is called a fryer, while a young roaster is five toseven months old.

• Turkeys are the only breed of poultry native to the Western Hemisphere.

• Turkeys have great hearing, but no external ears. They can also see in color, andhave excellent visual acuity and a wide field of vision (about 270 degrees), whichmakes sneaking up on them difficult. However, turkeys have a poor sense of smell(what's cooking?), but an excellent sense of taste.

• Domesticated turkeys cannot fly. Wild turkeys, however, can fly for short distancesat speeds up to 55 miles per hour. They can also reach speeds of 25 miles per houron the ground.

• Turkeys sometimes spend the night in trees.

• Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining. They can also have heartattacks: turkeys in fields near the Air Force test areas over which the sound barrierwas broken were known to drop dead from the shock of passing jets.

• The ballroom dance known as the Turkey Trot was named for the short, jerky stepsa turkey makes.


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Turkey Feathers Activity

Materials Needed

-copy of “Turkey Feathers” worksheet-brown, green, red, and yellow felt-oaktag or cardboard-g lue

Note to Teacher

Using the worksheet as a pattern, cut a turkey out of brown felt and glue it tothe piece of cardboard. Cut out fifteen feathers from the other felt. Then cut apartthe number cards and place them facedown on the table.

Directions for Children

1. Pick a number card. Count the dots and say the number.2. Count out that many feathers and put them on the turkey

Going Further

Put a bowl of shelled peanuts or popcorn, along with the number cards (fromthe “Turkey Feathers” worksheet) laid facedown, on a table. Have two childrentake turns picking a number card, saying the number, and counting out that manypieces of the snack.

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Turkey Feathers Activity, Cont'd

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The Turkey in the Straw Gives ThanksThis Thanksgiving turkey hid some

Thanksgiving messages in the straw. Nowhe can’t find them. Can you help?

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Thanksgiving is a BIG word. It \\lcontains two little words. Write \them below:

What two things can you give thanksw for at school? Write them below.

What can you give thanks for at home?Write in the space below.

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Uncle Alligator is soaking his elbows in The Mayflower. He’s also thinking of a way tocombine these three items into a story. You can help. Write your adventure story on the back.


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Uncle Alligator's Mayflower Soak

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3-Dimensional Turkey

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(1) 9”xl2” light brown constructionpaper(1) 6”xl2” dark brown constructionpaper1” x6” strips of yellow, orange andlight brown construction paperscissors and paste or glueblack crayon

Steps:1. Draw a turkey body on the dark brown construction paper, freehand, and cut

it out.2. Paste the body onto the light brown construction paper. Draw around the

turkey with black crayon and add legs, eyes, and beak.

3. Bend and paste l”x6” stripsof construction paper to make the tail feathers.

4. Cut out a wing from scraps and paste on turkey to cover strip ends. Cut out ared wattle and paste to turkey.

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half a cork, any size for each shiplarge toothpick, 4” piece of reed or apipe cleaner for each ship(2) 2” x 3” white construction paper foreach ship

4. scraps of construction paper5. pieces of string or thread6. 3 pieces of stick or wire

7. scissors and glue

Steps:1. Poke a hole in the middle of the flat surface of the cork and push in the end of the

toothpick, reed or pipe cleaner, covered with a little glue. Hold it until it is secure.

2. Cut two sails from the white construction paper by cutting diagonally across thepaper. Cut a flag from the scraps of construction paper. Glue to the mast.

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3. Tie a string or thread to the mast of each ship. Then tie the string to the two wires orsticks. Tie a string to middle of the stick or wire to hang the three-wire mobile.


Cork Ship Mobile

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Materials:1. tissue paper (brown, purple, blue, yel-

low, red, orange and green)2. (1) 9" x 12" piece of newsprint3. (1) 9” x 12” white construction paper4. liquid starch5. paint brush6. black crayon

Steps:1.

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Cut a cornucopia out of brown tissue paper. Cut various fruit shapes from the othercolors of tissue paper.

Have children arrange their design first on newsprint.Paint the white construction paper with liquid starch. Move the arrangement fromthe newsprint to the white paper, one piece at a time. Go over the top of each piecelightly with the liquid starch. Be careful not to go over the edges so the colors won’trun.

Outline the design with crayon after it is dry. The colors of the tissue will have run abit and this makes it more interesting. Outline the original fruit design.


Cornucopia

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4Read the color word on each turkey feather. Color the feathers. Create your own turkeybody, head, and neck. Then, put on the feet , beak , eyes , andwattle.


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Create a Turkey

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Magazine Turkey

Materials:

1. (1) 12"x12" construction paper, anycolor for background

2. scissors3. paste or glue4. old magazines

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Have the children cut out separate letters for the body of the turkey, spelling‘roast turkey’.Clip out names of Thanksgiving dinner food items to make the tail and turkeylegs.Paste the separate letters to make the main part of the body. Use the words tomake the tail. Lay on the paper and arrange before pasting.Finish by drawing the head and feet with a black crayon or cut out of coloredconstruction paper.

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Rolled Fruit

Materials:

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strips of construction paper 1"x12"in various fruit colorsglue or pastegreen paper scraps (for stems andleaves)scissors

Steps::

1. Using one strip, paste ends together to make shape of fruit. (For grapes noshape is needed)

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Roll the strips and paste down ends. Do enough rolls to fill the shape of the fruit. Put them in shape to test. They can all be different sizes.

Take out rolls, put paste around edge and replace in fruit shape, sticking allrolls together.Cut out leaves and stems. Paste to the top of the fruit.

Hints:

-Have each child in class make one fruit and then make a class cornucopia fora bulletin board.

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Standing Turkey

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(1) 6” x 9” light orange or tan construc-tion paper(1) 3”x 9” brown construction paper(1) 1.5" x 6” tan construction paperscraps of red, yellow and black con-

struction paper for eyes, beak, wattle,and feet

Steps:

scissors and pasteorange, yellow and brown temperapaint poured on sponges in flat con-tainers

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Put sponges in flat containers and pour the tempera paint over the sponges to makepaint pads.Place the first four fingers on the paint pads, one color at a time, and print tail feath-ers on the 6” x 9” light orange construction paper. Remind the children to make thefeathers fan out in a half circle. When dry, cut out.

Roll the 3"x 9” brown construction paper into a tube and paste. Do the same to the1.5” x 5" light brown construction paper. Paste together to make the head and body.Paste to the tail.

Using the scraps of red, black and yellow construction paper, make eyes, beak, gob-wattle, and feet for the turkey. Paste onto the body.

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Thanksgiving Day is a day to give thanks for the things we have.

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Use your crayons and felt markers to create a Thanksgiving quilt. You can make a repeatdesign, or a different symbol in each space. Do these words help? Pilgrims, Indians, May-flower, corn, turkey. Use your own ideas also.


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A Thanksgiving Quilt

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Round off the corners of the 4.5” x 4.5” brown construction paper and also the1” x 6" strips of all colors. These strips will be the feathers. Slits can be cut to givefeathery edges./- -\u ’\

Materials:1. (1) 6” x 12” brown construction paper2. (1) 3” x 6” brown construction paper3. (1) 4.5” x 4.5" brown construction

paper4. 1” x 6” strips of construction paper:

yellow orange, tan, red, brown 5. scissors and paste or glue

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Fold the 6” x 12” brown construction paper in half. Round off the corners, makingsure that it is still attached at the fold.

For the head use the 3” x 6” brown construction paper. Cut a very fat “L” shape.Round off the corners as shown and cut a slit in the arm of the “L” shape.

,Glue or paste all the feathers to the front of the folded body. Stagger and overlapthe feathers. Then paste the 4.5" x 4.5" piece over the top to cover the ends of the feathers.

Attach the head to the body by folding the tabs in opposite directions on the arm ofthe "L" and paste. Add the feet, beak and wattle, made from scraps of constructionpaper. -


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Turkey Cup

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scraps of brown construction paper(I) 1” x 8” strip of brown constructionpaper

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2" x 4" pieces of construction paper forfeathers (red, yellow, orange)small pieces of red construction paperscissors and paste

Steps:

1. Cut milk carton in half.

2. Tear small pieces of brown construction paper and paste or glue onto milk carton.(Tearing makes them look more like feathers.)

3. Roll top of 1"x 8”brown strip for head and paste.

4. Use a black crayon for eyes and scraps of red construction paper to make a wattle.

5. Paste head onto milk carton.

6. Cut feathers, folding 2” x 4” pieces in half, and glue onto milk carton.

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Turkey Time

Directions: Color the turkey using the colors shown.

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Thanksgiving (K-2) is compiled from: • Art Today and Everyday by Jenean Romberg and Miriam Rutz. Published by

Parker. • Second Grade Teacher's Month-by-Month Activities Program by Elizabeth

Crosby Stull. Published by CARE. • Kindergarten Teacher's Month-by-Month Activities Program by Elizabeth Crosby

Stull and Carol Lewis Price. Published by CARE. • Kindergarten Teacher's Survival Guide by Elizabeth Crosby Stull. Published by

CARE. • First Grade Teacher's Month-by-Month Activities Program by Elizabeth Crosby

Stull. Published by CARE. • Daily Plans for Active Preschoolers by Judy Galloway, Lynette Ivey and Gloria

Valster. Published by CARE. • Whole Language Discovery Activities for the Primary Grades by Margaret C.

Riley and Donna L. Coe. Published by CARE.


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