Materials
1. Bingo cards for each participant. Make Bingo cards using a grid of squares (5X5) and placing Thanksgiving related items in each square. Make each card different in the choice of items on it and the placement of the items.
2. Coins or markers to cover squares. You can also simply allow them to mark on the cards.
3. Bingo items in bag to pull out. Write them on small peices of paper or ping pong balls.
Activity
1. Play according to standard bingo rules.
2. Randomly draw the items from a bag and call them out..
3. The first person to get all of a row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally yells out “Gobble, Gobble, Gobble,”
Possible Thanksgiving Bingo items:
1621, Autumn, Blessings, Corn, Cornucopia, Cranberry, Dinner, England, Fall, Family, Feast, Giblets, Gobble, God, Gravy, Harvest, Mayflower, New World, November, Pie, Pilgrim, Plymouth Rock, Pumpkin, Puritans, Stuffing, Thanks, Thursday, Turkey, Wampanoag Indians, wattle
Variation
Instead of words, you can also include photos of common objects associated with Thanksgiving and Harvest
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