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Continuing with the theme of introducing Western holidays, I took a stab at explaining Thanksgiving and the whole turkey concept.  I started out with the standard "trace your hand turkey".  At first the kids were so pumped by the mere fact that tracing your hand results in a pretty good drawing of a hand.  I had to steer them away from putting nails and rings everywhere.  I stressed that we were making a bird, and then the whole bird idea took on a mind of its own.  

Here is Sally and Jake in the process...

This was the end result of Cherry Class' Turkeys... they look more like medical testing turkeys.

And this is what Jake perceived as a Thanksgiving Turkey...

he was so proud of his artwork that he wouldn't let me hang it up, he wanted to take it home.  (my favorite part are the sun's facial features).