Thanksgiving Family Traditions
One of our favorite Thanksgiving family traditions is our Thankful Turkey. For the last couple years, on November 1st, I bring out the Turkey. He gets a place of honor in the dining room right by the table, because each night over dinner, we each take a feather and write one thing we are thankful for.
We add the feathers to the bird a little by little during the month, and we watch him get VERY big, right in time for our big Thanksgiving feast.
The last couple years, I had been using construction paper to make his feathers, but this year, with the help from Scrappin Doodles graphics, I was able to put together a printable version to share with all of you!
I laminated him, and we’ve been writing on his feathers with vis a vis markers. In theory, this means I could conserve paper, and erase it for next year…. but I kind of like saving the feathers each year, so I can look back and see what was important to all of us. Like a thanksgiving time capsule.
You can use this for the next two weeks until Thanksgiving, or just bring it out over Thanksgiving dinner and give everyone a feather to fill out. It would also be neat in a classroom or anywhere really!
It’s our favorite Thanksgiving tradition, and I am so excited to share it with you!
Thank you for sharing this! I was going to do a Thankful Tree – I drew a beautiful tree then realized to cut it out and tape it to the wall would be a pain. Not to mention cutting out dozens of maple leaves. Thankful Turkey it is!! So thankful for you for making this 🙂
Very sweet idea!
ive tried several times to print this and it hasnt been able to find it on ur sight. I would love to do this with my grand daughters this year. Thanks
Hi Roberta! Thank you so much for pointing this error out to me- last year we had some issues and had to move all our printables off the server, and this one must have missed the transition. You can grab it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Printable-Thanksgiving-Tradition-Thankful-Turkey-1504294
Is the thankful turkey not available anymore to print. I was having trouble getting it to download.
Hi Theresa! Thanks so much for letting me know about this issue- I have fixed the download link, and you can grab it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Printable-Thanksgiving-Tradition-Thankful-Turkey-1504294
Thank you. This is adorable. Just wondering what you used to attach the pieced to the wall?
I just used scotch tape, so it will come down easily at the end of the month 🙂
Fun! We’ve done a Thankful tree, but your turkey is just cute! 🙂
Thank you for sharing this printable. I just printed it out for our family to put together.