Thanksgiving Games

    WHICH ONE IS MISSING (tune: are you sleeping)

     Turkey feathers, turkey feathers
      Red yellow green--red yellow green
        Which one is missing
      Which one is missing
       Name it now, name it now

Put a turkey on the felt board In random order put two or more red yellow and
green feathers on him
Have the children cover their eyes. Take two or more feathers off the turkey.
Have the children uncover their eyes and look carefully at the turkey as they
sing "Which one is missing".  After they've finished singing have them call
out which feathers are missing.  As they do bring that feather back and put it
on the turkey.  Play again and again mixing up the colors and numbers of
feathers you remove each time

  Title: Turkey Feather Game 
  Cut five turkey body shapes out of brown felt and fifteen feather shapes
  out of red,  yellow and orange felt. Number the turkey body shapes from 1
  to 5 and put them on a flannelboard. Place the feather shapes in a pike.
  To play the game, have the children take turns selecting a turkey,
  identifying the number on it and adding that many feathers to it. 
  
Catch the Turkey (game) 
  All the children are turkeys except one who is a Pilgrim.  The Pilgrim
chases the turkeys until he catches one.  The child who is caught becomes the
Pilgrim.
  
  *Pilgrim, Pilgrim where's your hat?  (Game) 
  Have the children stand in a circle.  Choose one child to be the pilgrim and
stand in the middle.  Blindfold this child.  Let the other children in the
circle pass the hat to each other saying:
  Pilgrim, pilgrim where's your hat?
  We've passed it around the circle
  Now you try to get it back.
  The children stop passing the hat when the poem is completed.  The child who
has the hat  at this point hides it behind his back.  The pilgrims tries to
guess who has the hat.
  
I'm a little Indian on the go. November Game (Sung to "Muffin man")
  Give each child a Thanksgiving object such as corn, turkey feather etc.  As
the item is named in the song, the children should respond as requested.
  
  Oh, Do you have an ear of corn, an ear of corn, and ear of corn?
  If you have an ear of corn, please stand up.
  Oh, Do you have a turkey feather, a turkey feather, a turkey feather?
  If you have a turkey feather, please stand up.
  Oh, Do you have a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin pie, a pumpkin pie?
  If you have a pumpkin pie, please stand up.
  Oh, if you are very thankful, thankful, thankful?
  If you are very thankful, please sit down!

Thanksgiving Math

  Turkey math:
  Paint each child's hand with brown paper and have them press it onto 1/2
sheet of  construction paper.  Let them add features with markers and crayons
to make the hand
  prints look like turkey.  Use the finished pictures to talk about counting
by fives.  Hang them in a row with the numerals 5, 10, 15... and so on up to
100.  Practice counting by fives.


Thanksgiving Science

   *Turkey facts 
  Male turkeys are called toms or gobblers.
  Females are called hens.
  New born turkeys are called poult.
  
  Turkeys that are raised on farms are white and much heavier then wild
turkeys.  Because of their weight they cannot fly.  
  
  The red part that hangs from their beak is called a waddle.  The red part
that is above their beak in called a snood.