Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the last Thursday of November in the United States. Families come together for a big feast, eating traditional foods like turkey, stuffing, potatoes, and pumpkin pie. One tradition is for each person to go around saying what they are thankful for. The origins of Thanksgiving date back to 1621, when the Pilgrims celebrated a successful harvest with the Native Americans who had helped them survive their first year in America. This feast became an annual tradition and is now a national holiday celebrated in November.

1. THANKSGIVING DAY

2. THANKSGIVING DAY
Thanksgiving day is celebrated on the last
Thursday in November.

3. FOOD
On Thanksgiving
families get together
and have a big harvest
feast!
They eat turkey,
corn, stuffing,
potatoes, pumpkin pie, ...
Everyone gets a BIG
stomach ache!

4. TRADITIONS
One of the customs on
Thanksgiving is being
thankful for people
coming to your house.
In turns, each one
says: “I´m thankful
for…”

5. A bit of History
.
Thanksgiving became a holiday
almost 400 years ago, in 1621,
when a group of English
Pilgrims arrived to America
and settled in 1620.
They were a group of Puritans
who escaped from England
due to their religion believes.

6. The pilgrims travelled
to America on a ship
called the “Mayflower.”
The trip to America was
long and hard. There
were storms and the
ship was really crowded.

7. • When they got to America, it was winter and
there were no food or houses.
• Many of the pilgrims died from sickness,
starvation and cold.

8. • There were some people who lived in America already:
Indians.
• They saw the Pilgrims suffering and they decided to
help them.

9. • They showed them
how to hunt and fish.
• They showed them
how to grow different
plants, like corn and
pumpkins.
• They helped them
build houses out of the
trees there.

10. • When it was winter
again, the Pilgrims had
food and a place to
live.
• They were so happy
that they decided to
have a feast and invite
their friends, the
Indians.

11. • So they had a great
feast that lasted for
a whole week.
• They ate the typical
autumn food: turkey,
fish, deer, sweet
potatoes, corn and
pumpkin.

12. • But the first thing they did was to say thanks
for having friends, food, houses and a place to
live.

13. • And this tradition continues today.

14. I´m thankful for…