Turkey Fun for Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving will be here before you know it! I love all of the adorable turkey decorations around the holiday, and they inspired me to have some fun with today’s hilarious read aloud about a tricky little turkey who doesn’t want to be eaten.

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Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano is a hilarious story about a turkey who doesn’t want to be eaten forTurkey Trouble (Turkey Trouble, #1) by Wendi Silvano | Goodreads Thanksgiving dinner! He decides to disguise himself as other animals so he can hide from the farmer. The story is entertaining for all ages, and kids will surely enjoy Turkey’s funny costumes throughout the book. This book also presents an opportunity to have a lot of turkey fun just in time for the Thanksgiving holiday!

Turkey Baster Races – This is a great activity that can be enjoyed by kids of all ages! Set up lanes with tape or string, either on a tabletop or across a room. Have kids line up feathers on the starting line, and give each of them a turkey baster. When you say go, kids have to use their turkey basters to see who can get their feather to the finish line the fastest! You could also attach feathers to an inflated balloon and have kids move that across the room. This is a great exercise for hand strength, and can also be a gross motor activity if you are having them chase their feathers across a room. You can change this up to make things more interesting by having kids move across the room as some of the animals from the book. Who can get their feather over the finish line fastest while walking like a chicken?

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Our Turkey Tracks

Turkey Tracks Art – The blog Fun-A-Day created a fun art project using pipe cleaners to make turkey tracks. She bent orange pipe cleaners to create three pronged turkey feet. She then let the kids dip them into orange and brown paint and walk them across white paper. Kids will love stamping turkey tracks all over the paper! My daughter loved making turkey noises while she stamped the feet across the page!


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Burn off some energy with a game of tag and some turkey fun!

Turkey Tag – If it is warmer where you are, this is a great opportunity to get kids moving outside. You will need clothespins to play this game. You can either paint the clothespins, or add feathers to make them more festive. Each player will get 3 clothespins to add to their clothes (or coats if it is chilly). When the game starts, kids have to run around collecting clothespins off of each other, without losing their own clothespins. Whoever collects all of the clothespins wins! This is a great way to get kids moving while working on gross and fine motor skills..

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Math Facts Turkey

Turkey Feather Math and Spelling – Cut a turkey shape out of brown paper (use a butternut squash shape as your guide). Add eyes and an upside down orange or yellow triangle for a nose. Cut several feather shapes out of different colors of paper. This turkey can be used for a variety of math and language exercises. For spelling exercises, write letters on the feathers and have kids spell out words by adding them to the back of the turkey. For math practice, you can write numbers on the feathers. Give kids a sum and have them find the right numbers to add up to it.


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Turkey Costume Drawing – Turkey dressed up in some great costumes to avoid being captured by the farmer. Have kids come up with other costume ideas for the turkey and draw them out. These can be other animals, furniture, or anything else they can come up with.

There are so many fun turkey inspired activities that you can use with this story. What turkey games do you play?

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10 comments on “Turkey Fun for Thanksgiving!

  1. My five-year-old is a little obsessed with turkeys and turkey crafts right now, so this is right up our alley. I also love how you can incorporate math and spelling in fun activities.

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