Happy Thanksgiving Turkey

Provide each child with a large poster board feather.  Set up a center
 with a variety of craft items, collage materials, and finger paints.
  Then direct each child to visit the area and decorate his/her
 feather as desired.  Display the feathers around a large turkey
 cutout and add a holiday greeting.

 I am Thankful

I have a big turkey body I made out of brown paper. I give each child a piece of
construction paper cut 6 X 18, in yellow, orange, red, light brown-basic
fall colors. They cut this into a large feather shape, fringe it, and
then dictate something they are thankful for. I write it across the top
of the feather- Johnny is thankful for his dog - or whatever. These
feathers are then stapled to form the fan of the turkey.

Plump Lil' Turkeys

To make one turkey, trace a child's hand onto a sheet of fall colored construction paper.
  Place four different colored sheets (of the child's choosing) under the tracing; then cut
 through all thicknesses of paper to create five hand shapes.  Have the child glue the shapes
 onto a turkey body cutout to resemble feathers and then add paper features.
 Display the turkeys on a picket fence made from bulletin board paper.

Thinking Thankful Thoughts

For each pumpkin project, cut out the inside portion of a large paper plate.
  Paint the remaining rim orange.  When it's dry, program the rim with the
 following on top rim... "I am thankful for..."  Add child's name on bottom
 rim.  Then cut a white construction paper circle a little bit larger than the area
 inside the rim; then glue it to the back of the rim.  Have each child add a
 construction paper stem, then draw and color to complete the sentence starter.
  Mount the pumpkins on a bulletin board with leaf and vine cutouts.

Thankful Turkeys

Draw a Turkey on brown poster paper.  Paint features with tempera.
Trace turkey feathers on different colors of construction paper. Give each
 child a feather to cut out. The children should use a black marker  to
 write his or her name and the feather and one thing he or she is thankful
for.  Glue the feathers on the tail section, working from the outside
 toward  the center. Hang on the classroom door or wall.

Gobble, Gobble

Have each child color a small styrofoam cup with a brown marker.  Then hot glue
 a large pom pom to the front of the cup (as the turkey's head).  Next, have the
 child cut out a construction paper beak, wattle, and eyes and then glue them
 to the pom-pom.  Attach each turkey cup to the wall.  Drop craft feathers in the
 cup of each student who shows good behavior.  On a designated day,
 reward students' efforts with a treat of corn - candy corn!

Tepee Entryway

If your kindergartners are learning about the Native Americans of the Plains,
 help them create this entrance to your classroom that resembles a tepee.
  Cut three pieces of thin muslin, two shaped like triangles (for either side
 of the door) and one triangle shaped piece to go over the door.  Ask each
 child to choose a Native American name and picture symbol to paint onto one
 of the muslin pieces around your door.  Add a final touch by taping three
 or four thin sticks at the tepee's top.

Our Corny Cornucopia

Place this corny cornucopia on display in a hallway to give passersby
 a hearty chuckle. Cut student-finger painted paper into fruit and vegetable
 shapes. Add two wiggle eyes to each shape. In a word balloon, write each
 child's version of a well-known adage. For example, "The early bird gets
 [no sleep]." Mount a large paper cornucopia on a background; then add
 the finger painted shapes, the word balloons, and a catchy title.

I'm Thankful for...

On your bulletin board, have a huge, colorful turkey. Also have a pocket of smaller turkeys
 (or Thanksgiving related shapes) with the phrase "I'm Thankful for..." printed on them.
 Have students fill these out as they wish and post them on the board.
If you run out of stuff, continue hanging them around the room.

Don't Be a Turkey, Count Your Blessings!

Discuss with students what they are thankful for and invite them to record it on
 a copy of a Pumpkin reproducible. Roll brown construction paper into a cylinder
 shape to make a turkey neck. Attach to the neck a brown construction-paper circle
 for a turkey head and attach to a bulletin board. Add a red wattle, yellow beak,
 yellow legs, and facial features. Attach men's old neckties to the base of the turkey
 neck to form a body with tail feathers. Title the bulletin board Don't Be a Turkey!
 Count Your Blessings! Have students add their pumpkins to the bulletin board.

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