Can you pin the missing tailfeather on the turkey?

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Icebreakers:
Can You Pin the
Missing Tail
Feather on the
Turkey?
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Materials
Large picture of a turkey. (If you
aren’t very artistic, use an OHP
and a coloring book image and
project it on to a large piece of
poster board.) Leave a gap for a
missing large tail feather.
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Activity
1. Blindfold one child / youth
and have them attach the
feather to the turkey.
2. Play this game for
Thanksgiving in the same
way you would play “pin the
tail on the donkey.”
3. Instead of a donkey tail, pin a
feather on the turkey where
it would belong in the gap.
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Variations
1. Pin the snood (the red flesh
growth that hangs over the
beak) on the turkey.
2. Pin the wattle on the turkey
3. Leave all the tail feathers off
the turkey and award every
child who gets one near the
right place.
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