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The Best How to Catch a Turkey Activities and Craft
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A turkey is on the loose! How can you catch it? Have some fun this Thanksgiving devising a plan to trap the tricky little turkey that is on the loose with these How to Catch a Turkey activities and craft! Keep students engaged right up to Thanksgiving break as you work on procedural writing and a simple-to-assemble turkey craft!
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How to Catch a Turkey Read Aloud
Before beginning our How to Catch a Turkey craft and procedural writing activity, I read the book How to Catch a Turkey by Adam Wallace.
In this story, a group of children are determined to catch a turkey for Thanksgiving. They invent a series of clever and entertaining traps in their quest to capture it.
Throughout the story, the kids create a variety of humorous and imaginative schemes, including a turkey trap hidden in a corn maze, a giant pumpkin pie, and even a turkey costume to disguise themselves. With each attempt, their plans become more elaborate and amusing than the one before!
How to Catch a Turkey Procedural Writing Activity
After reading this book, the students are always excited to share their own witty ideas on how they would catch a turkey.
To capture these creative ideas, we create a whole class brainstorming anchor chart.
Then, we create an additional anchor chart which models the procedural writing activity.
I like to prep the ‘bones’ for this anchor chart ahead of time, including the title, transition words, and a cute picture of a turkey.
There are three-step and four-step writing pages, which include the transition words โfirst, next, lastโ or โfirst, next, then, lastโ in this How to Catch a Turkey activity pack.
As we devise our whole class plan for catching a turkey, we work on stating our sentence(s) verbally before recording it on paper.
Once our whole class example is complete, I like to have students practice sharing their plan with an elbow buddy before going off to work on their procedural writing piece independently.
Students have the option to illustrate each step, or you can print the lined version and they can illustrate and write each step.
After the students finish their writing piece, I stack the pages and staple them at the top.
How to Catch a Turkey Craft
Once the flip booklets are complete, it is time to assemble our How to Catch a Turkey craft!
I like to print the pieces for the following colors of construction paper: brown, orange and multi color.
After everything has been printed, the first step is to attach the eyes to the head.
Next, add the beak and snood to the head.
Then, glue the wings and feet to the body before adding the colorful feathers behind the head and top of the body.
I like to spend a little extra time modeling how to fan out the feathers before gluing, as many students tend to clump them together.
The last step is to share their clever plan for trapping the tricky little turkey in disguise. They can share their steps with a buddy, in small groups, or during morning meeting.
How to Catch a Turkey Bulletin Board
Once the students have had an opportunity to share, I like to hang them on our Thanksgiving bulletin board display so others in the school can enjoy these cuties too!
This is the perfect project to complete during those last few days leading up to Thanksgiving break!
How to Catch a Turkey Activities and Craft
Grab these How to Catch a Turkey writing activities and adorable How to Catch a Turkey craft here!
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Ashley Sharp
As a dedicated Kindergarten teacher for nearly 20 years, I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!
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