The REAL 1st Thanksgiving
We don't know if turkey was served at the 1st feast, but we are pretty sure this quacking bird was.
What is a duck?
This store holds the Thanksgiving parade in New York every year.
What is Macy's?
Eat all the turkey you want. It will not do this to you.
What is make you sleepy?
She worked for 2 decades to have Thanksgiving declared a legal holiday.
Who was Sarah J. Hale?
Number of calories a typical adult consumes on Thanksgiving.
What is 4,500?
These were not served because they are too bitter to eat without sugar.
What are cranberries?
These items from the parade were used during WW 2.
What are balloons?
This side dish, made with bread and spices, was not served at the 1st Thanksgiving feast. It hadn't been invented yet.
What is stuffing?
He proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
He wanted the turkey to be the National Bird.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Thank you to the Wampanoags, who brought this animal to the feast.
What is a deer?
These 2 universities held the 1st Thanksgiving football game.
What are Yale and Princeton?
We eat these tiny red berries on Thanksgiving. They are made with lots of sugar and we call it a "sauce."
What are cranberries?
This president finally made Thanksgiving an official national holiday...his initials are FDR.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt?
This is the first crop the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims to grow.
What is corn?
The feast lasted this many days...I wonder if they stopped eating to sleep?
What is 3?
These 2 NFL teams, with animal mascots, held the first professional football game on Thanksgiving.
What are the (Chicago) Bears and the (Detroit) Lions?
Some people eat these "tubers" mashed. Others bake or roast them for Thanksgiving.
What are potatoes?
This Native American spoke English, and helped the Pilgrims survive.
Who is Squanto?
Although the date changes every year, Thanksgiving is always held on the 4th____________(day of week) of November.
What is Thursday?
This pie was not served, but the Pilgrims still ate the seeds and insides of this plant.
What is pumpkin?
Ironically, THIS store, not Macy's, held the very first Thanksgiving day parade.
What is Gimbels?
Although often associated with Halloween, this gourd is used now to make pie.
What is pumpkin?
These people came to the New World from England to have freedom of religion, and to own land.
Who were the Pilgrims? (Puritans)
The Pilgrims ate a lot of this type of animal on Thanksgiving...even though they weren't crazy about it!
What are fish/shellfish?