Oh dear! It’s that time again when your turkey friends find themselves in a heap of trouble. They’ve done their best to conceal themselves, but now they desperately need your assistance. It’s up to you to solve puzzles, gather clues and unlock the locks in order to help them escape. 

View or download the PDF guide for our Turkey Trouble digital escape room which includes tips, links to both the Google and Microsoft versions, an answer key and more.

This awesome “What I Am Thankful For”  Turkey activity comes from Eric Curts and can be found on his blog ControlAltAchieve. It’s super easy—students build their own turkey, and each feather represents something they're thankful for on Google Slides.
The blog post comes with a tutorial video, step-by-step directions, and even a Google Slides template to get you started.

On his blog, LearningInHand Tony Vincent shares three Thanksgiving ideas, you can try in your class or at home. Our favorite? Carve a turkey out of a graham crackers using your teeth, like Tony Vincent’s students did. Afterwards take photos of your creations and add details by drawing them in.

Check out the article from National Geographic kids to learn more about those Thanksgiving traditions then use an AI tool to create interactive resources like the ones below: 

Use Google Slides to design your own Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon with this Design a New Macy's Parade Balloon HyperDoc created by Nadine Gilkison. This explore, explain, apply lesson gives students lots of opportunity to reflect, respond, think, and create!

Using this “Developing an Attitude of Gratitude” HyperDoc, created by Sarah Landis and Kelly Hilton, students will learn about gratitude through multiple texts.

After reading/watching and responding to various gratitude resources students will then create their own 6 word poem sharing what gratitude means to them.

In this activity from the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian students will participate in a class discussion about how national stories can leave out important details, exaggerate events, and be one-sided. They will also make predictions about how and why the story of the “First Thanksgiving” is incomplete. The lesson includes videos and digital activities you can copy and assign to students.

Watch the Storyline Online video of the book “Turkey Trouble” by Wendi Silvano. Students will follow along with the story of a turkey who tries to disguise himself as other animals to avoid being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. 

After watching the video and listening to the story students can respond using one of the resources in this Teacher's Guide or have them disguise their own turkey using the activity below!

Use Google Slides to create a presentation where you disguise a turkey to avoid being eaten for Thanksgiving dinner. Take it a step further and include a place to write a story about your turkey on paper or digitally.

This activity created by Peggy Reimers, Author at TechNotes Blog. Get this activity plus 10 more in this post 11 Thanksgiving Activities for Joy and Learning from TCEA.

This PE activity choice board, from LaDonda Porter, puts a fun and interactive Thanksgiving spin on some PE activities. There are 6 activities, one for each letter in the word THANKS. In groups students will click on the die to roll it then do the activity they rolled.