Disguise a Turkey Letter to Parents

About this worksheet

A ready-to-send family letter for the disguise a turkey project: it explains the story (the turkey wants to hide before Thanksgiving), asks families to help their child disguise the turkey with things already at home, promises no shopping, and has a blank line for the due date and a teacher signature. A box lists twelve disguise ideas, from superhero to dinosaur, and an optional return slip. Send it home with the turkey template. It suits ages 4 to 6, and little ones can count the pictures with a finger. Color the feathers red, orange, yellow and brown.

On this sheet

Dear Families, Our class has a turkey problem! Thanksgiving is coming, and the turkeys do not want to end up on a dinner plate. Your child is bringing home a turkey that needs a disguise so it can hide in plain sight. Please help your child turn the turkey into something else: a superhero, a pumpkin, a football player, a mermaid, a favorite book character or anything your family dreams up. Use what you already have at home: paper, crayons, paint, fabric scraps, yarn, cotton balls, buttons or real feathers.

Tips for using it

• Make every feather a different fall color.
• Pull a three-page packet per child for the short school week: one math page, one word puzzle and one gratitude page at their level.
• Print the answer keys (page 2) once and clip them to a folder so early finishers can check their own work.
• For a mixed-age family table, give every child the same activity at a different level: the picture word search for the five-year-old, the dinner table word search for the nine-year-old.

Printing tips

Download the PDF and print at 100% (or “fit to page” on A4). It is a vector file, so the lines stay sharp on any printer. This page is free for personal, family and classroom use.