Parade
The famous Thanksgiving day parade
What is the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade?
The most popular Thanksgiving food
What is Turkey
The Y shaped bone of a turkey that people make a wish on
What is a wishbone?
Celebrated on November 10th to honor all American veterans
What is Veterans' day?
Do all Turkeys gobble?
No.
Only male turkey do
This character has made the most appearances in the Macy's parade
who is Snoopy
Ms. Jen's favorite Thanksgiving food
What is sweet potato casserole?
This Christmas song was originally a Thanksgiving song
What is Jingle Bells
The song, written in 1857, was once called "One Horse Open Sleigh" and was intended to be a Thanksgiving song but became so popular around December 25th that it changed in 1859
Celebrated on November 11th that recognizes the ancient art of paper folding
What is Origami Day?
True or False: The first Thanksgiving was in November
False!
Some historians actually think it was held in mid October, similar to the present day Canadian Thanksgiving
What is your favorite thing in a parade?
whatever you answered is correct!
The number one pie on Thanksgiving
What is apple pie?
Pumpkin pie is second
The tradition of watching this on thanksgiving was started by college teams
What is Football?
The Day we set our clocks back one hour
What is Daylight Savings?
The speed at which wild turkeys can fly
what is up to 55 mph?
The first Macy's parades features this instead of the balloons we see now
What is zoo animals?
When the parade was still the Christmas parade to kick off the shopping season, it featured animals from the central park zoo
True or False?
Turkey makes you sleepy
False
The first professional Thanksgiving Day football game was played in what year?
1920
This day only happens every 4 years in November
Election Day
The year Thanksgiving became a national holiday
what is 1863?
Abraham Lincoln made it a national holiday
The holiday that the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade was originally for?
What is Christmas?
This state raises the most turkeys
What is Minnesota
Other than retail stores, Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for what professionals
Plumbers
Some companies have even started calling the Friday after Thanksgiving "Brown" Friday
Bet you can't guess why
Celebrated on November 1 and 2 in Mexico to pay respects and remember friends and family that have passed away
What is Day of the Dead or Día de Muertos?
what is 1621?
The first Thanksgiving was celebrated as a 3 day harvest festival. It included 50 pilgrims and 90 Wampanoag Indians