090.C.W01.F2F - Thanksgiving

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Description

Play (that involves all the YPs), Turkey Headbands, Games

Resources

Thanksgiving play script - 4 copies
Thanksgiving play props - there are 13
Tables and chairs
One of the headband printouts per person
Card stock
Colouring pens/pencils
Scissors
Double-Sided Tape (or glue sticks)
Raw yams (sweet potato) (or tennis balls) - 1 per team
Large spoons (e.g. wooden spoons) - 1 per team
Tape (or something else to make a line)
Bean bags - each team with a different colour
Hoops - 1 per team

Instructions

Thanksgiving Play
Prep
Put on notice boards before starting:
- England (at one end of the hall)
- Holland (middle of hall, closer to England)
- America (opposite end to England)

Description
Assign roles:
- Announcer
- Prop master
- Narrator
- Acting coach
- Divide the rest of the group in 2:
-- Separatists
-- Englanders

Everyone starts in England.

Read/act out the play.

Craft - Turkey Headbands
Cut out the 4 pieces below (2 eyes, beak, feather)
Use the feather as a template to draw around and cut more feathers (3 or 4 feathers in total)
Cut two pieces of card stock roughly 2-inches wide by 8-inches long for the actual headband (not included on this page)
Stick the headband pieces together so they fit around your head
Stick the 2 eyes and beak to the front of the headband (see pic)
Stick your feathers to the back of the headband so they stick up (see pic)

Games
Traffic Yam (sweet potato)
Give each player a “raw yam (sweet potato)” and have them put it on the ground on one side of the room.

Players must race to get their “yam” from one side of the room to cross the line on the other side of the room and then get back to the starting line before the next person goes.

Players can only move the “yam” by pushing it with the spoon.

Yam and Spoon Race
Give each player a “raw yam (sweet potato)” and have them put it on their spoon and walk across the room and back holding the “yam” on their spoon (like an egg race).

If the “yam” falls on the ground, they must go back to the beginning and start over.

First team to have all their players cross the line with their “yam” safely in their spoon wins.

Reverse Yam and Spoon Race
Same as Yam and Spoon Race but make it even more difficult by making people walk backward!

First team to have all their players cross the line with their “yam” safely in their spoon wins.

Hut, Hut, Hoop
Bend over and hike (throw behind you between your legs) bean bags through a hoop, e.g. 15 feet away.

Each player has as many turns as there are bean bags.

Winner is the person/team that gets the most bean bags through the hoop.

Thanksgiving Would You Rather
Eat turkey every day for the rest of your life or never have potatoes again?
Never celebrate Thanksgiving again or prepare a full Thanksgiving feast every month for the rest of your life?
Drink apple cider with gravy in it or drink hot chocolate with cranberry sauce?
Shop on Black Friday or Cyber Monday
Have Thanksgiving dinner at Home or eat at a Chinese buffet?
Play football or go to a movie
Eat pumpkin pie with whipped cream or warm apple pie with ice cream?
Eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows or topped with brown sugar and pecans?
Dress like a pilgrim or a turkey?
Walk around with a pocket full of stuffing for a day or mashed potatoes?
Eat a tofu turkey or oyster stuffing
Stand in line for 3 hours to get a TV for 75% off stand in line for five minutes to get a TV for 25% off?
Run in a turkey trot or do a polar bear plunge?
Celebrate with the Addam’s Family or the Simpsons
Spend Thanksgiving on a cruise or at Disney World
Pull the wishbone if you knew only the person who won would have their wish granted or skip pulling the wishbone and take the chance that your wish will come true?
Take a nap or take a walk after eating?
Cook the entire meal or do all the dishes?
Attend a gathering of 4 people or a huge one with 20 or more?
Burn the rolls or forget the sugar in the pumpkin pie?
Run around with a raw turkey on your head or peel 20 lbs of mashed potatoes?
Get your own cranberries from a cranberry bog or pick apples for apple pie from an apple orchard?
Drink flat sparkling cider or cold hot chocolate?
Spend an hour writing thank you cards to friends or spend an hour listening to family members say what they’re grateful for?
Have a stranger join your family for Thanksgiving or eat Thanksgiving dinner where you don’t know anyone else?
Eat mashed potatoes with unknown lumps (not potatoes) or eat jello salad full of whatever your relatives put in it?
Peel all the yams for the sweet potato casserole or cut all the onions for the stuffing?
Would you rather eat your entire Thanksgiving meal with just a spoon or eat without using any hands at all?
Would you rather wear a turkey costume all day on Thanksgiving or wear a pilgrim hat with a big buckle that hits you in the face all day?
Would you rather have to tell a turkey joke before every bite or act like a turkey throughout dinner?
Would you rather have a pet turkey or have a pumpkin farm?
Would you rather tell someone to thank you or do a secret act of service?
Would you rather have to give away all of your toys or have to take a break from all screens?
Would you rather go back in the past to eat at the first Thanksgiving or go back and sail across the ocean on The Mayflower?
Would you rather be followed around all day by a spilling gravy boat or a dancing pot of mashed potatoes?
Would you rather have to carve a turkey blindfolded or eat your entire Thanksgiving meal with chopsticks?
Would you rather have stuffing for hair or mashed potatoes for legs?
Would you rather have a turkey that can talk or a squirrel that can sing?
Would you rather have to explain modern technology to a pilgrim or Thanksgiving to an alien?

090.C.W01.F2F - Thanksgiving

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