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Top Text Block (Bold) Turkey Time Thanksgiving is a time to share a special holiday with family and friends. In the following article, I give some ideas for taking the focus off the food and turning it toward forming friendships, family bonds, and fun! Turkey Tag In this game, three students play the hunters and the rest are wild turkeys. The game continues until all the turkeys are caught. Take a Nature Walk Go outside! Take a nature walk and see if you can find: a red, orange, or brown leaf; a pine cone; an acorn; a dried weed or pod; a seed; a piece of bark; a sweet gum ball, or dried berries. For a variation, have the group brainstorm and see what items that they can find first. The first group to find everything on the list wins! Popcorn Relay Race Materials: Popcorn or small balls Measuring Cups Bowls or containers Set out bowls full of popcorn at one end of the room and empty bowls at another. Teams must transport the popcorn from full bowl to empty bowl using a measuring cup. Pin the Tail Feathers on the Turkey Materials: Picture of Turkey Feathers or Tail feather Tape Blindfold Draw a turkey and have the blindfolded children take turns trying to attach the feathers. The player that puts the feathers closest to the turkey wins! Thankerchief Materials: Handkerchief Arrange the children in a circle. Pass a "thankerchief" (handkerchief) around as they recite this poem: Thankerchief, thankerchief, around you go -- Where you'll stop, nobody knows. But when you do, someone must say, What they are thankful for this day. The player holding the thankerchief when the poem ends, must tell one thing for which they are thankful. The game continues until everyone has had a turn. Turkey Hunt! Materials: Twelve Turkey Pictures On a dozen or so index cards, draw or paste a picture of a turkey. To play, everyone leaves the room except the leader. The leader hides the cards around the room. Hunters return and begin the hunt. As each turkey is found, it is brought back to the leader who corrals them in a separate pile for each hunter. When all the turkeys have been found, the hunter with the most turkeys is the winner and becomes the leader for the next round. Where is Mr. Turkey? Materials: Small turkey or brown ball to represent turkey One player is the hunter and the others are helpers. The hunter leaves the room. The helpers hide a small toy turkey. The hunter returns with a mission to find the turkey. Helpers give clues by "gobbling" like turkeys. If the hunter is not close, the helpers gobble very quietly. As the hunter gets closer, the helpers gobble more and more loudly until the hunter finds Mr. Turkey. Cranberry Relay: Materials: Cranberries or small red balls Large plastic spoons Have players form two lines. Each player takes turns carrying a spoonful of cranberries from the front of the line to a determined point and then back to hand the spoon to the next player in line. If any of the cranberries drop off, the player must stop and replace them before continuing. The first team to finish wins. Turkey Trot Materials: Stuffed turkey or picture of turkey for each team Players pair up with their elbows linked and each team receives a turkey mascot. On cue, the pairs try to make their way to the finish line at the far end of the playing field. The first team to get there without dropping their bird or unlinking their arms, wins. Turkey Exercises Materials: Turkey picture for each group Turkey feathers with exercises on them Make feathers out of laminated red, brown, yellow, and green construction paper and on the back of each, write an exercise. Divide the students into small groups of three and assign each group a turkey placed at the opposite end of the gym. Give students the exercise feathers in a pail or bag. The first student in the group will pick a feather, read the exercise, and the group will perform the exercise. That first student will then run to the turkey with that feather, place it on the turkey, and run back. Then the next student in the group selects a feather, reads the exercise, and the group performs the exercise. That student runs to the turkey, places the feather on the turkey and runs back. Continue until all the feathers are placed on the turkey. The teacher can tell the students how many feathers they need to have on the turkey, depending on the time available. Students can also be told they need to select at least one feather of each color, to include variety of exercises. Run Fast Little Turkey Materials: Parachutes Paper Feathers Take a chute and throw the turkey feathers in the air. Assign a color to each child and have them pick up that color of feathers. The child who picks up his/her color first, wins. Cornucopia Pilgrims Materials: Chairs for all students except one Players sit on chairs forming a circle. There should be one more player than there are chairs. The player without a chair is the leader. The leader points to each of the other players to give them a name, such as "Cranberry, Corn, Apple, Turkey," anything related to Thanksgiving. After names are chosen, the leader calls out two names, "Turkey and potato," for example. Those two players must quickly switch places. The leader keeps calling at a quick pace, until suddenly she says, "The cornucopia has tipped over!" Everyone, including the leader, then scrambles for a new place. The player with out a seat is the new leader. Pumpkin Race Materials: Pumpkins or similar odd shaped balls Pool Noodles The racers line up on the starting line with the pumpkins turned on their sides. On the signal, the racers use the noodle to roll the pumpkins to the finish line. If you want to play this as teams, make it a relay race. If you are looking for an alternative to the traditional dash for the leftovers, try these exciting games. Your focus will be on fun instead of on a full and bloated belly. Thanksgiving References (Included in this section are books that are great to read in between the games when children are tired.) Amazing Moms Thanksgiving Games http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/thanksgiving_games.htm Annie�s Thanksgiving Games http://www.annieshomepage.com/thanksgivinggames.html Anderson, Laurie Halse. Thank you Sarah: the Woman who Saved Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic, 2002. Black dog�s Thanksgiving http://www.blackdog.net/holiday/thanks/ DePaola, Tommie. My First Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic, n.d. Family Fun Turkey Trot http://familyfun.go.com/parties/holiday/game/famf_game_turkeytrot/ Let�s Talk Turkey http://www.umkc.edu/imc/turkeys.htm Pilkey, Dav. T�was the Night Before Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic News, 1990. Ross, Katherine. The Story of the Pilgrims. New York: Random House, 1995. Teaching With a Heart Thanksgiving, Geocities Turkey Time http://www.geocities.com/teachingwithheart/turkeysing.html Tryon, Leslie. Albert�s Thanksgiving. New York: Scholastic, 1994. Web Teach Thanksgiving Links http://webtech.kennesaw.edu/jcheek3/thanksgiving.htm Wilmes, Liz, and Dick. Parachute Play. Elgin, IL: Building Blocks, 2000.
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