ADVICE FROM A TURKEY
Always strut your stuff.
Gobble till you wobble.
Be well dressed.
Have impeccable taste.
Don’t let life ruffle your feathers.
MATCHING GAME
Match terms with their meanings.
Caruncle – Gizzard – Hen – Poult – Snood – Tom – Wattle
-Baby turkey. A chick.
-Brightly colored growths on the throat region. Turns bright red when the turkey is upset or during courtship.
-Female turkey.
-Flap of skin that hangs over the turkey’s beak. Turns bright red when the turkey is upset or during courtship.
-Flap of skin under the turkey’s chin. Turns bright red when the turkey is upset or during courtship.
-Male turkey. Also known as a gobbler.
-Part of a bird’s stomach that contains tiny stones. It helps them grind up food for digestion.
TURKEY RIDDLES
How did the cook get locked out of the kitchen?
How is a penny like a turkey sitting on a fence?
If fruit comes from a fruit tree, where does turkey come from?
If you call a large turkey a gobbler, what do you call a small one?
5. What did the papa turkey say to the little turkey at supper time?
What did the sweet potato say to the turkey?
What did the turkey say to the ham?
What did the turkey say when the Pilgrim passed the potatoes?
What did the turkey waiter say to his customers?
10. What do you call a turkey who cleans his house all day?
What do you call it when it rains turkeys?
What do you get if you cross a turkey with a bottle of glue?
What do you get if you cross a turkey with an octopus?
What do you get when a turkey lays an egg on top of a barn?
15. What do you get when you cross a turkey with a centipede?
What does a turkey like to eat on Thanksgiving?
What happened to the turkey who ate too much corn?
What happened when the turkey got into a fight?
What happened when the fairy godmother waved her wand at the turkey?
20. What happened when Tom Turkey stepped up to the plate?
What is the turkey’s favorite day to celebrate?
What key won’t open any door?
What movie do little turkeys like to watch?
What should you wear to Thanksgiving dinner?
25. What sound does a space turkey make?
What’s the difference between a turkey and an owl?
What’s the key to a great Thanksgiving dinner?
What’s the most musical part of a turkey?
When is a turkey sorry to see her name in print?
30. Where do turkeys go to dance?
Which side of a turkey has the most feathers?
Why did Mom Turkey tell jokes to her eggs?
Why did the cat put her turkey in a ball gown?
Why did the pilgrim cross the road?
35. Why did the police arrest the turkey?
Why did the pig cover his ears when he passed the turkeys?
Why did the smart turkey carry an umbrella to work?
Why did the stuffing hide behind the turkey?
Why did the turkey cross the road twice?
40. Why did the turkey sit on the tomahawk?
Why did the turkey climb into the vegetable bowl?
Why do turkeys lay eggs?
Why don’t you let a turkey get near corn?
Why isn’t it safe for turkeys to do math?
45. Why was the turkey the drummer in the band?
ANSWERS
100 drumsticks
A feather duster
A har-vest
A poul-tree
A turkey
A turkey doesn’t give a hoot
All the tur-keys were inside
An eggroll
Foul weather
Gizzard of Oz
Goblet
Gobbledy-gook
He didn’t want to hear any fowl language
He had the drumsticks
He got an ear-ache
He got the stuffing knocked out of him
He hit a fowl ball
He wanted to rest in peas
He was chasing the turkey
Head’s on one side, and tail’s on the other
Here I yam
Hubble Hubble Hubble
If they add 3 and 5, they get ate
If they dropped them, they’d break
It was dressing
Must you gobble, gobble, gobble your food?
Nice to meat you
No thanks, I’m stuffed
Nothing, they are already stuffed
She granted her wishbone
She heard you were supposed to dress a turkey
She wanted to crack them up
She’d watched the evening feather report
The butter ball
The drumstick
The outside
The turkey
Thanksgiving dinner with drumsticks for everyone
The day after Thanksgiving
They suspected it of fowl play
They will gobble gobble gobble it
To hatchet
To prove he wasn’t chicken
Wattle it be folks?
When it’s on the menu
ANSWERS
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