Thanksgiving Page

A special Thankgiving page with games, crafts and links

- Thanksgiving Games - "Turkey Chase" Needed: as many scarfs, hankies, or scraps of cloth as you have players. Players need to have on pants or shorts that have back pockets in them. Someone who is not playing should give each player a scarf- one at a time out of sight of the other players-and that player needs to keep the scarf from being seen by the others. When everyone has thier scarf have all players form a wide (as possible) circle and with out letting the others see , put scarf in thier back pocket with about half showing out. On "go" every player tries to see another players scarf color is with out thier own being seen.....if you see someones color you shout out thier name and color and are correct that person is out! To prevent random guessing if the guesser guesses wrong THEY are out. Keep going untill only one player is left who is the winner. The reason this game is called 'turkey chase' is because contestants look like turkeys in play.......watch and you'll see! "Turkey Trot" Every player stands on one leg and holds the other up behind him with thier hand. At "go" players hop on one leg untill they lose balance fall over, or tire out and cant do it anymore.....no stopping or that person is out. The last person to be able to stay up and hop all the way through without stopping is the winner! "Turkey Dinner" Everyone sits in a circle (use chairs if you can but it does'nt matter that much) Then everyone choose a part of the Thanksgiving dinner they will be.....ex: Sue is 'stuffing', Bob is 'yams'.....etc. Everyone should know everyone elses food item. Then roll up some newspaper (not too tight-you're going to be bopping heads with it) and choose some one to be 'it'. The 'it' person goes in the middle of the circle with news roll in hand. Then a circle person will shout the 'food item' of another circle person.....'it' persons goal is to 'tag' with the news roll the person called out before that person can call out another circle members name. This game moves fast and is LOADS of fun. If a person gets tagged they are then it! "Turkey Turkey-Goose!" Same as 'Duck, Duck-Goose" & same rules apply.....only difference is using the word 'turkey' in place of duck. All players sit in a circle, one person is "it" who travels around the outside of the circle patting each player on the head saying, "turkey,turkey,turkey" for each one until they decide to name one 'goose'.......when that happens the goose gets up and chases the it person around the circle and tries to tag him. If the it person can make it back to the gooses place and sit in it before getting tagged then the goose becomes it and play begins again...... More Games ~Links to more Thanksgiving games~ Fun Recipes "Indian Hoe Cake" Ingredients: 1 Cup Cornmeal 3/4 Cup boiling water 1 tsp salt 3tbs butter or marg. Butter a coolie sheet that has sides and place it in refrigerator for 15 min. Pour batter into coolie sheet spreading evenly. Bake at 300 F for 45 min or untill light brown. "Cranberry Ice" Ingredients needed: 1 (12 oz.) pkg.fresh cranberries 2 Cups sugar 1 pt.cold water Juice of 3 lemons 1 teas. grated orange peel In a saucepan, boil together cranberries, sugar and 2 cups cold water untill berries pop. Process in a blender untill smooth. Add lemon juice, 2 cups cold water and orange peel. Freeze in container. Remove from freezer about 1 hour before serving. Makes 10 cups . "Yam Stuffed Oranges" Ingredidients needed: 3 cups cooked,mashed yams or sweet potatoes 3 TBS butter or marg. 3TBS orange juice 3/4 tsp salt 1 cup miniature marshmallows 3 TBS apricot jam 4 oranges Heat yams or sweet potatoes. Stir in butter or margarine, orange juice, salt, marshmallows and jam. Preheat oven to 325 F Cut oranges in half. Use a spoon to scoop out fruit and pulp. Spoon mixture into orange shells. Arrange on a baking sheet. Bake 15 to 20 min or untill marshmellows melt and yams are hot. Serves 6 10 8 Yum! "Making Butter" Indredients needed: 1/2 pint Heavy whipping cremeAn old mayonaise jar with lid (or some other) cleaned This is GREAT fun for little people! They can be kept busy and contribute something to the dinner! Fill jar with whipping creme (should be about half full and put on lid. Then let them each take turns shaking rapidly untill liquid seperates and butter forms! Then put in the fridge to chill untill dinner....much fun! ................................. ........................... Story of the REAL First Thanksgiving ....................................... ............................ Thanksgiving Crafts "Pine Cone Turkey's" pinecones Construction paper Cut out, in assorted colors in the sahpe of turkey feathers from the construction paper. AND trace and cut out from Brown const. paper a turkey's head (you can add a red wattle later *S*) Then simply let children glue feathers to the bottom widest part of the pinecone and stand it upright untill dry...then glue on the head, draw some eyes and voila! You've got a pincone turkey! "Apple Turkey's"Needed:10 gumdrops of many colors1 apple1 mashmallow1 red gumdrop2 =raisins7 toothpicksPut 2 gumdrops on each of 5 toothpicks, then stick in apple for tail. Use another toothpick to stick on marshmellow head. Use last toothpick to stick on red gumdrop wattle. Moisten raisins and press into marshmallow for eyes. Entertainment Movies "Pocohanta's" Disney Mel Gibson "Pocohantas II" Disney Mel Gibson Links to Other Thanksgiving Oriented Sites below:

Links to other sites on the Web
Thanksgiving link for the whole family
Billy Bear's Thanksgiving lots of fun!
Mayflower Web Page
A Virtual Tour of Plymouth
Native American Sites

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