Happy Thanksgiving

"They began now to gather in the small harvest they had and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty. For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercised in fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want; and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees). And besides, waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took many, besides venison, etc. Besides they had about a peck of meal a week to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which made many afterward write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in England, which were true reports." William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, 1621.

Easy to Difficult Thanksgiving Crossword Puzzles

Fill in the blanks to write your own story about Thanksgiving Day

How to Draw Your Own Turkey Picture Where's the Turkey?

We gather together to ask the Lord’s blessing;
He chastens and hastens His will to make known.
The wicked oppressing now cease from distressing.
Sing praises to His Name; He forgets not His own.

...Lord of the Sky. Thus did you think to provide for us And you ordered that when the warm season comes, That we should see the return of life And remember you, and be thankful, and gather here by the sacred fire. So now again the smoke arises We the people offer our prayers We speak to you through the rising smoke We are thankful, Lord of the Sky.

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Articles and stories and Thanksgiving Homework Helpers from the Plimoth Plantation, a living history museum in Massachusetts.
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Thanksgiving Information
An overview of the story of Thanksgiving includes the prayer (excerpt above) written by the Iroquois people.