Here's an AWESOME site for teaching and learning about the First Thanksgiving... "You are the Historian - Investigating the First Thanksgiving."

Ideas from All the Daze Newsletter

Popcorn Relay Race
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This is a bit messy, but well worth it to see relatives young and old playing together! Set out bowls full of popcorn at one end of the room and empty bowls at another. Teams must transport the popcorn from full bowl to empty, using a measuring cup.
Note: popcorn is a choking hazard for children under three!

"Thankerchief"
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Arrange the children/players in a circle. Pass around a "thankerchief" (handkerchief) around as everyone recites this poem:
"Thankerchief, thankerchief, around you go -- Where you'll stop, nobody knows.
But when you do, someone must say,
What they are thankful for this day."

The player holding the "thankerchief" when the poem ends, must say aloud, one thing for which they are thankful. This continues until everyone has had a turn.

Turkey Trivia
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Ben Franklin thought that the turkey should have been our national bird instead of the eagle.

There is fossil evidence that turkeys have been around the Americas for 10 million years!

Some people think the turkey got its name from the Indian word for the bird--"furkee". Other people think its name came from the sound that the bird makes--"turk, turk."

Turkeys were probably first domesticated by the Mexicans. Spanish explorers took them to Europe in 1519. The Pilgrims brought domesticated turkeys to America in 1620.

Turkeys are friendly and curious. They become friendly with the farmer, but gobble at strangers.

Turkeys are easily frightened and may hurt themselves when upset by flying into walls or by piling atop each other, causing one or more birds to smother.