12 Days of Thanksgiving - Day 11

Days of Thanksgiving

I've always loved these ideas that extend through multiple days to celebrate the holiday seasons (did you catch my 13 Days of Halloween posts?). This year I found ideas for the 12 Days of Thanksgiving and I couldn't resist sharing them with you. The ideas in this post came from a very vintage magazine called Copycat Press from 1990 (which just doesn't feel like it should be labeled very vintage, but I suppose that's because I am very vintage myself!) 

The ideas are centered around using the poetry from It's Thanksgiving by Jack Prelutsky. I didn't have this book in our Club library, but I did find a few versions of read alouds online. Here's the one that includes the entire book (which is helpful since you'll use different poems each day).

Eleventh Day of Thanksgiving
Turn your Club members into turkeys! All the inspiration they'll need is found in the poem "Gobble, Gobble." Ask students to show how a proud turkey would sound. Have members imagine that they are turkeys who are trying to teach themselves how to fly. Group members together to act out turkey parents trying to get their chicks to eat when they aren't hungry or have them pretend they're turkeys taking part in the "Most Beautiful Turkey Contest." Get your camera ready for this action!