Wishbones, Food and Helping Hands

Here is wishing everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving tomorrow.
I have so much to be thankful for and I am sure you do, too.

I have posted below my Two-Lane Livin' November column for kids. I hope you enjoy it and feel free to share it with your kids or grand kids.

What do you get when you cross a turkey with a banjo?

A turkey that can pluck himself!

Did you know that making a wish on a wishbone might date back to 320 B.C.?” However, the Etruscans, who supposedly started the practice, did not break the wishbone; they merely rubbed it to make their wishes come true.

Every turkey has a wishbone. Pulling a wishbone takes two people. Each person makes a wish, takes hold of one end of the wishbone and pulls. They say if you get the longest end, your wish comes true. This is also the origin of the expression “lucky break.”

The only foods mentioned in records of the 1621 Thanksgiving feast were venison and fowl. However, other items the settlers would have probably had were lobster and cod, pumpkins, turnips, peas, onions, squash, beans, nuts, plums, grapes, spices and seasonings. They never had pies, because they lacked sugar needed to make them. The Thanksgiving celebration lasted for three days.

You can be a part of the Thanksgiving dinner at your house by helping with the menu and the grocery list. You can also make a pretty decoration or place cards for your table. You can wash fruits and vegetables, mix the pie ingredients, mash the potatoes, help stir the stuffing, add marshmallows to the sweet potatoes, roll out the pie crusts or prepare a special treat. Food tastes better if you help make it.

You can help set the table and then help clean up after the meal. After this is done, bring out the dessert!

FIVE PLUMP TURKEYS

© Janet F. Smart

 

Five plump turkeys

Strutted down the road

One flew away

Then there were four.

 

Four plump turkeys

Strutted down the road

One stopped to eat

Then there were three.

Three plump turkeys

Strutted down the road

One lost his way

Then there were two.

Two plump turkeys

Strutted down the road

One stopped to rest

Then there was one.

One plump turkey

Strutted down the road

Gobble, gobble, chomp

Then there was none.

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Are you serving this poor little plump turkey for dinner tomorrow?

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Posted by Janet F. Smart at Creative Writing in the Blackberry Patch.