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Considering the books I read to my class each November, it's a wonder any of them actually sit down to a plateful of turkey on Thanksgiving! No worries, though, they're still counting the days until they can savor mom's home roasted turkey goodness!So far we've worked our way through:
[Click on the covers for more information about each book.]
We've seen turkeys disguised as snowmen, children, art models, Hollywood agents, and pizza delivery boys. Maybe I missed something, but I thought turkeys were rather dimwitted creatures. Oh well, let's not be bothered by fact--it's time for some fun!Apparently there's a well established tradition of having children disguise a (paper) turkey as a Thanksgiving art project. I'm sad I've been missing out on this! Lynne shared these pictures from her class.
The kids made a disguise for their bird and then wrote: "Turkey? What Turkey? I'm not a turkey, I'm a ______. Maybe you should look at a _______."So cute! I love the turkey gnome!
If you're looking for more turkey inspiration, check out this site. (Scroll down.) There's even a turkey rodeo queen!
Littlegiraffes.com suggests a prompt for some undercover turkey writing.
This is a patterned writing activity for practicing nouns, verbs, describing words, and quotation marks. Each turkey disguises itself as another animal to fool the farmer. Make three columns on the board: Animal Names, Animal Actions, and Animal Sounds. Then brainstorm ideas.You can even toss in the song Five Fat Turkeys Are We.
This is an example:I could be a ________. (pig)
I could ________. (roll in the mud)
" _____, ______," said the turkey (oink oink)
"Oh!" said the farmer, "It must be a ______!" (pig)
I can't wait to try this out with my little turkeys! This guy is just begging for a new look, don't you think? You can download the .pdf from teachers.net.
But if your Thanksgiving disguise need run the other way, Designs With Heart has a pattern for making a turkey mask. If you try it out, just make sure to keep your running shoes on!
One of my co-workers always does a similar activity and then she post them in the hall. It is always so fun to view all the different creative ideas the children come up with. :) joyce,visiting from waddleeahchaa
ReplyDeleteI love this project! I do it every year. I send it home as a family project. They get so creative and they love it! I also have them do the writing part. This year I got a big foot and it is so adorable. I will have so show you some of the pictures of some of my favorites!
ReplyDeleteJoy, we'd love to see them! Send us some photos!
ReplyDeleteUm, I forgot to tell you...that first pic with the green thing that looks like a headband and the belt that looks like a heavyweight wrestling champ belt? Yeah. That's Michael Jackson. True story. :)
ReplyDeleteMichael Jackson??!! Bwhahhahah!
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to decide on some Thanksgiving books to purchase for our holiday "collection". You've mentioned some great turkey books!
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