Silly Thanksgiving Story Word Game

About this worksheet

A fill-in-the-blank word game in the style kids know from party word books: page 1 asks for 14 words (a food, a funny sound, a color, an action word ending in -ing...) with examples for each, and page 2 is the story they go into, The Great Turkey Escape, where a turkey hides under the sofa and makes the family eat something else for dinner. Kids collect words from the table without seeing the story, then read it aloud. For readers about 7 to 10; younger kids can shout words while a grown-up writes. Second graders usually finish it in 10 to 15 minutes.

On this sheet

Then turn the page, put the words in the story and read it out loud.

Tips for using it

• 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.
• Print the place cards and the placemat the evening before; children who color the table decorations feel like hosts.

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.