Alphabet Turkey Match

Here's a fun activity to share with an older buddy class. In advance, prepare a turkey
 cutout for each of your children and each child's buddy.  Label half the cutouts with
 upper case letters and the other half with corresponding lowercase letters, making
 sure each letter has a match.  When the buddy arrives, give each of the older students
 a turkey with an uppercase letter and each of your younger children a turkey with a
 lowercase letter.  Have each of the children find the buddy holding the uppercase
 match to his/her letter.  Then have the pairs sit together and take turns
 telling the whole group what they are thankful for.

Do the Turkey Pokey

Sing the Hokey Pokey like normal, but then the last line goes as follows:
"You do the Turkey Pokey and you gobble all around, that's what it's all about."

Follow the Turkey

Put on some lively music (or sing the song below). Have your children follow
behind you in a line and copy your movements as you strut around like a
turkey. Then let the children take turns being the "turkey leader." Since
turkeys like to eat corn, encourage the children to add some pecking
movements to their turkey strut.

Turkey Feather Relay

Have 2 turkey bodies cut out for 2 teams. Also have a feather cut out for each child.
 Each child glues their feather on and passes it quickly to the next child. All feather
 must be glued on so none should be falling off for a winning team.

Stuff the Turkey

Make a large turkey by opening a large paper bag and rolling down the top
edge three or four times. Set this bag aside, open sid up. stuff the bottom
of two small lunch bags with newspaper, fasten the tops with twist ties, and
mold them into turkey leg shapes. Attach the legs to the sides of the large
bag, Give your children 6 inch squares of newspaper. Let let them take turns
"stuffing" the turkey by crumbling the newspaper squares and trying to toss
them in the large grocery bag turkey.

Turkey Toss Game

Take a large brown grocery bag and glue 2 small lunch bags (gathered at
 the tops) to sides of the bag to look like drumsticks. We then take turns
throwing in the stuffing sock balls or bean bags we call cornbread!

Pumpkin Bowling

Use a "pie pumpkin" with the stem broken off to be the 'ball'.
Fill 6 small plastic bottles 1/2 way with soil/sand/rice.
Line them up in bowling pin fashion and then bowl away using
the pie pumpkin! Warn the kids though that part of the fun
is watching which direction the pumpkin rolls because it won't
always roll straight (and ask them why they think that is!).

A Turkey's Dinner

Liven up your party with this guessing game that will have the group gobbling
 and flapping their wings. Have the class stand in a circle and pretend to be
 turkeys. Teach them the poem below. Then, each time you recite the poem,
 ask a different child to name either a food or an object that is not a food.
 If the child names a food, the turkeys in the group should gobble.
 If the child does not name a food, the turkeys should flap their wings.

"Gobble, gobble!" said the turkey
As he rubbed his fluffy tummy.
"My Thanksgiving dinner
Is going to taste yummy."

So he got out his fork,
And he got out his plate.
Now, can you tell me
What that little turkey ate?

Drop the Wishbone

Have the children sit in a circle. Choose one child to walk around the outside of
 the circle, carrying a wishbone (either a real one or one cut from cardboard.)  The
 walker is instructed to drop the wishbone behind one of the other children.  The
 child who has the wishbone dropped behind him, must pick it up and chase the first
 until the first child finds the empty spot in the circle formation.  If he is tagged by the
 runner before he sits, he is "it" again.  If not, the second child becomes "it" and
 starts the game again.  This game is played similar to "Duck, Duck, Goose."

Turkey Feather Game

Find a picture of a turkey that you like. Make six copies of it. Cut out the bodies
 of the turkeys (so you just have to add the feathers to make the turkey complete).
 Write the number "one" on the first turkey, two on another, repeat with the numbers
 three through six. Provide the children with twenty one feather shapes, cut from
 construction paper or store bought craft feathers. Ask the children to place the
 appropriate number of feathers on each turkey.
One feather on the turkey with the number one one it... and so on.

Feather Matching I

Cut out feather shapes from different colors of paper. Give each child one
 feather. Ask the children to find one person with the same color feather.

Indian Designs Matching Game

Make Indian symbols on tongue depressors, two of
each kind. The children can play a matching game with them.

Bean Bag Toss

Obtain a large piece of cardboard. A large, unfolded box works well.
 Draw a turkey on the cardboard with a large mouth. Paint the cardboard
 and cut out the mouth. When dry let the children throw bean bags through the hole.

Turkey Races

Choose teams and have them start two at a time. Mark a start point and an
ending point. Have the children walk/run turkey style (stooped with hands
on hips) and gobble as they go from start to the finish lines. As a children
 crosses the finish line have the next player start until everyone finishes.
The first team to get all their players across the finish line wins.

Turkey Tag

Choose teams. 2 children, 1 from each team, run turkey like from
 one line to another. Do this until every child has had a turn.

Turkey Teacher

Take a paper plate and divide the circle into pie sections.  Write a color word on each slice.
  Use spring type clothes pins as your game pieces.  Color one clothes pin to match each
 color word.  Cut a small turkey face from construction paper and glue this in the center of
 the plate.  Have the children match the color and its word by attaching the clothespins to
 the plate.  Note:  You could also make plate teaching skills like capital/lowercase
 letters, numerals, dots, number words and so on.

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