Thanksgiving Alphabet Game

Thanksgiving scrambles

Thanksgiving message

Thanksgiving Day (colour by numbers)

Thanksgiving game of Don’t Eat Pete

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1. Place a small piece of candy on each square (i.e. M&Ms, Skittles, etc)
2. Have one child/person leave the room.
3. The rest of the players quietly decide on which turkey is “PETE” for that round.
4. Call the child back in.
5. The returned child then proceeds to eat the pieces of candy from the squares until they pick the “PETE” turkey square candy that was decided upon previously.
6. All the kids yell “DON’T EAT PETE!” and that child’s turn is over.
7. Reload the squares with candy and choose another child to leave the room.
8. REPEAT – REPEAT – REPEAT until dinner is ready. 🙂

Thanksgiving fun facts

A Thanksgiving Timeline

A Thanksgiving Timeline

• 1621 – Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated a harvest feast (known as the first “Thanksgiving”) in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
• 1630 – Settlers observed the first Thanksgiving of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England on July 8, 1630.
• 1777 – While in route to Valley Forge, George Washington and his army stopped in freezing weather to observe the first Thanksgiving of the new United States of America.
• 1789 – President George Washington declared November 26, 1789, as a national day of “thanksgiving and prayer.”
• 1863 – President Abraham Lincoln declared Thanksgiving an official federal holiday.
• 1876 – The first intercollegiate football championship was held on Thanksgiving Day
• 1924 – Macy’s held its first Thanksgiving Day parade.
• 1934 –The first National Football League game held on Thanksgiving Day was between the Detroit Lions who faced the Chicago Bears at the University of Detroit Stadium.
• 1941 – President Roosevelt established the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
• 1947 – President Harry Truman “pardoned” a turkey the day before it was scheduled to be served up as the main course at the White House Thanksgiving dinner. Modern presidents today have carried on the tradition.
•  information was taken from:  https://www.thanksgiving.com/all-holidays/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-traditions-history
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Thanksgiving in Numbers

Thanksgiving in Numbers

• Nearly 46 million turkeys are eaten during Thanksgiving each year. (source: History.com)
• The first Thanksgiving celebration lasted 3 days.
• Americans spent $14.2 billion on Thanksgiving and Black Friday in 2013.
• Approximately4 million Americans travel 50 miles or more from home during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. (source: AAA)
• The average American household spends $54.18 on Thanksgiving dinner.
• The U.S. produces an average of 735 million pounds of cranberries annually, 435 million of which come from Wisconsin. (source: United States Department of Agriculture)
• The Wednesday before Thanksgiving is the busiest single day of travel with 37 percent of travelers departing for their trips.
• The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in
• Pilgrims and Native Americans celebrated a harvest feast “Thanksgiving” in
• The average pumpkins weighs between 6 and 18 pounds.
• The U.S. produces around 5 billion poundsof pumpkins each year.
• The average weight of turkeys purchased for Thanksgiving meals is 16 pounds  
• information was taken from:  https://www.thanksgiving.com/all-holidays/thanksgiving/thanksgiving-traditions-history

Thanksgiving word scramble

Thanksgiving Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-vannwwn2U

Thanksgiving Song

 Little Pilgrim clothed in gray

 on that first Thanksgiving Day.

 Natives also clothed in brown,

 come to visit Plymouth Town.

 Side by side they ate and prayed,

 on that First Thanksgiving Day.

 Let's be thankful for this day, 

for our friends and our play.

 Let's be thankful, let's be glad,

 for our food and the things we have.

 Let's give thanks for you and me,

 and our home and family.

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