THANKSGIVING TURKEY PARDON PLEA & CREATE-A-TURKEY | Fall Persuasive Creativity

Practice persuasive writing, integrate art, and have FUN during the Thanksgiving season with this Create-a-Turkey and Turkey Pardon Plea Activity! PDF direction sheets are included in 3 formats-station cards, landscape, and portrait. Simply gather the inexpensive supplies, and let your students create!

Included are two FUN Thanksgiving Activities:

1.First, students will plan and write a Turkey Pardon Plea. They will think about reasons to NOT choose them for Thanksgiving dinner including tasty alternatives to turkey, good things that could happen if not eaten, and bad things that could happen if they do eat them. They will then write a final persuasive plea.

2.Next students, can create their own turkey. This is an open-ended activity that allows students to be creative!

Ways to Use

•This is an excellent activity for Art Integration.

•Place in your Early Finisher Station.

•Set up a Thanksgiving or Fall MakerSpace Station.

•Do activity as a whole class.

•Use as part of your PBIS, Fun Friday, or Morning Meeting activities.

•Do you teach gifted? This is an incredibly engaging enrichment and extension activity that can be used any time of the year!

•Are you an art teacher? These are great lessons to incorporate a little bit of writing and a lot of creativity into your lessons.

Supplies Needed

Turkey Pardon Plea: Turkey Pardon Plea sheet, pencil, colored pencils, markers

Create-a-Turkey: Glue, hot glue (with teacher help), scissors, markers, colored pencils, pencil, Sharpies, paper (various), tape, cardboard, decorative craft supplies, paint/brushes (optional)

Benefits

•Super engaging activity!

•Allows students to express themselves

•Hands-on learning

•Creation is a higher-order thinking skill

•Use as a SEL relaxation technique.

Related Resources

Check out the “Thanksgiving and Fall” section of the Megan Memories store for these related resources:

Thanksgiving Resources:

• Minute to Win It
• STEM Challenges
• The First Thanksgiving ELA, Art, and STEM Unit
• Norman Rockwell Art Integration Unit
• Balloons Over Broadway ELA & STEM Unit
• Totem Pole ELA, STEM, and Art Unit
• Creation Stations (great for MakerSpace!)
• Fun Sheets
• Thanksgiving MEGA Unit!
• The ULTIMATE Thanksgiving Party Game!

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