894 Writing Prompts About Summer

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Summer plays a huge part in literature. In fact, people have been writing stories set about this time of the year for centuries now. 

One of the most notable stories set in the summer is William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The play, which first premiered in the 1500s, consists of several subplots that revolve around the marriage of Theseus and Hippolyta, with the story about four Athenian lovers as the most popular one. Another is Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer. It is a coming-of-age graphic novel about two teenage friends as they discover themselves and their sexuality while battling family dynamics and mental disabilities. 

Below is a collection of writing prompts to try this summer. You can use them as inspiration for your next short story or novel. 

• Pretend you can talk to one animal to help you try and get invited to the Thanksgiving party. Write that letter.
• Someone’s limping in from the forest. I’m tired, hurt and hungry. It’s a werewolf. What do you do?
• Pretend you are a ladybug. Why did the lady bug stop to listen to the clanging of Thanksgiving dishes?
• You have been invited to a friend’s house for Thanksgiving dinner. He is funny, smart, strong and a fantastic drawer. Write a paragraph stating what makes him such a great friend.
• It’s Thanksgiving night, and while everyone else ventures out into the dark to stalk their overlooked relatives, what do you do?
• The Pilgrims were hungry and wanted to go back to England. When the Native Americans saw this, what do you think they did?
• Pretend that you are a turkey. What do you do to get ready for Thanksgiving?
• Ask your mom what she is thankful for.
• My grandparents are throwing a huge kitchen party. What treasure do you hide from them?
• Thanksgiving is coming up. What, or who, are you most thankful for?
• W-BAre you thankful that you don’t live in the Arctic?
• WWrite in two paragraphs what you would do to honor a thankful deed in your community.
• Describe the best benefit you have ever received.
• Pretend you are a turkey that is preparing for Thanksgiving dinner. Write a poem describing the things you do to get ready. What do you do the night before Thanksgiving?
• It’s Thanksgiving night in the forest. Tell what was happening.
• My dog is hungry for Thanksgiving. She eats the turkey while everyone is outside. Everyone is looking for the turkey, what do you do?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and everything is going wrong. What happens?
• Pretend Thanksgiving is November 7 . Then write about the week in your journal all about prepping for Thanksgiving dinner!
• If you were the turkey what would you eat first?
• Anxiety takes a day off
• Give thanks for something that has happened to ya’ and tell us about it.
• If you could add anything to Thanksgiving, what would it be?
• Hop on over to the  turkey page   to get your  Turkey Virtual Companion  and let her know you care.
• How are pumpkins like Thanksgiving?
• About long ago before we had Thursday Thanksgiving. Where did the turkey come from?
• Every day of your life you’ve heard Mom tell the same old thing. Write a poem about it.
• Write a letter to someone explaining how thankful you are to him or her.
• The thanksgiving dinner for people in your community was cancelled. How do you feel?
• It’s Black Friday on Thanksgiving. Tell a story about what might happen.
• A child answers the telephone that an adult says “It’s time to give you thanks…I want to give you something special because you’ve been so nice this year. I’ve set up a special visit from a ________________________________.” Be ready to act out the following on the telephone!
• What’s last minute preparation for Thanksgiving?
• Characters from TV shows or books are meeting at a Thanksgiving dinner. Who do you want to be there? What do you think they’ll wear?
• What is the scariest thing that ever happened on Thanksgiving?
• Consider the following from an essay about Thanksgiving, “Thanksgiving Day is literally a ‘Day of Thanksgiving’ to Almighty God for the blessings of the year past and for the hopes of the year to come. The settlers gathered together on this day to celebrate the harvesting of their crops during the growing season, to give thanks for good health and preservation from hardships during the year, to thank God for the bounties of the season, and to give thanks for His providence and protection.”
• How would you describe Thanksgiving Day to someone from another culture?
• Write a letter from the turkey to his dad/mom asking for extra food.
• Thanksgiving Trip . Mabee you miss it a lot when you relax and think about all that you are thankful for.
• Thank you to all who have served.
• Write about the first turkey you can remember.
• A very very delicious Thanksgiving meal is coming in but ?
• You are invited to a Thanksgiving party, but you won’t be able to go. How do you feel about that?
• Do you think turkey should be the official bird of Thanksgiving? Why?
• Your family has arrived for Thanksgiving dinner. They all sit down and begin bitching that you are cooking only turkey, and they want meatballs too! What do you do?
• You have been chosen to be the turkey for the next year’s Thanksgiving feast. Write what the job entails.
• Have you ever thought about what really makes a Turkey a turkey?
• If you were a character at the first Thanksgiving dinner, who would you be? What would you look like?
• Okay, you’re not a turkey, but pretend you are. What do you do on Thanksgiving?
• What is on your Thanksgiving wish list?
• How lucky are you to get invitations to a Thanksgiving feast?
• It’s the middle of winter and the ground is covered with snow. Write about how you like to play.
• On Thanksgiving a family eats a fantastic meal. After dinner each person tells three good things that happened to him or her since last Thanksgiving. Your turn.
• I have to talk about my triplet grandsons. One is in Alaska, one is in Italy,and the other is inventing a bulletproof escargot that doesn’t taste crunchy!
• It’s dinnertime. Everybody is coming over for dinner. What do you want to eat? And what are you thankful for that has to do with what you’re eating?
• How is being thankful like a turkey?
• “You are invited to a Thanksgiving dinner party.  Your in-laws welcome you to the home for the first time and are brimming with pride.
• Pre-Readers – pretend you are some of Thanksgiving’s Favorite Food. Be funny.
• It’s the day before Thanksgiving and you forgot the eggnog! Worse yet, you forgot to thaw your turkey!
• An owl, a bear, an alligator and a snake sit in a row. Thanksgiving is coming, who do they invite?
• Pretend you are at dinner…
• How did the Native Americans manage to survive?
• What do you need to be thankful for when you find yourself in a horrib
• This story is a drama because of what is happening now. But you change it to comedy writing by adding a humorous twist.
• The target just went out. A turkey shoots at it. It misses! Now write or talk about the shooting the turkey missed from.
• A runaway turkey Thanksgiving. You get released from a farm and make your way through a city.
• What is the best part about being a child?
• You are in the third grade. Write a story about what it was like in the olden days when Thanksgiving was new.
• Thanksgiving is here. All the turkeys come over to gobble turkey off the old farm. But the farmer is ready. That’s not going to happen!
• Thanksgiving is a traditional celebration, which is held in the United States of America. On that day, people enjoyed and celebrated with their families. Happiness and joy fill the air, especially at home where they spend several days and hours with family and relatives. During this time, most of us did something, cooked scrumptious meals, waited for the bird to cook and interiors were full of pleasant fragrant. Beside pleasing food spreads, traditional Thanksgiving also offers a holiday menu consisting of homemade spreads, and drinks on the menu.
• Pretend you are the first child to land on shore from the Mayflower. What do you see? What do you do?
• Is it a story for a younger audience or a more mature audience?
• What’s the best thing that has happened to you?
• Describe a Thanksgiving dinner all the family loved.
• This is your first Thanksgiving. It’s morning, and you wake up, look around, and you’re in a cooking pot!
• Give an example of how a U.S. citizen can improve the life of a family in another country.
• Turning around Ptolemy the turkey hen’s eyes it was there.
• Describe one of your favorite Thanksgivings.
• Describe a time when someone helped you out in a big way.
• If you were writing a song for Thanksgiving what would it be about?
• Write a letter to your friend about how thankful you are.
• Since Thanksgiving is such a time for giving, what are some things that you’ve been given?
• Pretend to be the Thanksgiving turkey at the end of the day. How full is the platter? How does he feel?
• Have a writing party. List each body part and what you are thankful for.
• Your wish is granted! What do you wish for?
• Thanksgiving turkey decides that this is not his last supper. Write a poem about this after the supper guest.
• Is there someone you want to thank?
• If the Pilgrims were arriving at Plymouth today, what would they find?
• The Pilgrims made the first Thanksgiving feast…what happened to it?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and not everyone is where they are supposed to be. What can happen?
• Thanksgiving is an American holiday. Write a letter to a friend in another country telling them what Thanksgiving  Day is like.
• Try to choose a design from several Thanksgiving writing prompt models to write a story or to use in your own writing style. To start, remember that writing templates provide just a guide to structure your story. After you are finished, you may want to rewrite your story with your own style.
• Just for fun, each of these Thanksgiving writing prompts goes with this amazing song!
• Pretend you and your family are marching in the turkey parade.
• Imagine the first Thanksgiving feast! How did all the food get there?
• You just found out that the Indians were hard working people and valued the land.
• Pretend you are a person makingThanksgiving dinner. What turkey do you cook?
• Someday we will live in a world that is fair and safe. Will you live long enough to see that day? If so, age yourself until then.
• If you could go back to any time in history, what time and what place would it be? As if you were there, what would you see?
• Joseph is a turkey, named after an important person in world history. This is his story…
• What are you thankful for? What are you thankful for is one of my very favorite writing prompts as it will get my children writing in a flash.
• Consider that life is like a Thanksgiving dinner. What are you thankful for and why?
• Thanksgiving is approaching! What do you tell your friends that can’t come for dinner?
• WIf you could do Thanksgiving all over, what would you do differently? Why?
• Family is breaking apart over losing your precious pie. Who is to blame?
• Let’s explore the special birds that come together over Thanksgiving.
• The most terrible thing happened yesterday on Thanksgiving.
• Tell us a section from your favorite Thanksgiving story.
• The day before Thanksgiving a hurricane is raging. You are going to miss the big dinner. Write about how you react to this disastrous news.
• You hear a knock on the door. Sooner or later your Grandmother will need to go to the bathroom.
• Here’s what you get to do. You are a pig. Your family has just won the big pork chop contest. Write about it.
• Describe a thankless Thanksgiving.
• Now if you’re a turkey you are going to need habitat for the holidays. Consider the facts below and write a story.
• You must be very thankful for something. You know something about something that someone doesn’t know. What do you write?
• A group of kids are going around the holiday inviting everyone to their turkey dinner. Why are they doing this?
• You are a turkey laid out on a platter. You are about to be cooked. This is your last chance to tell someone what you are thankful for.
• Follow two turkeys for two days prior to Thanksgiving. What do you think they are up to? Do they seem to be preparing?
• School is closed today because of a snow storm. While everyone else is inside the house, you girls decide to go outside to slide around the block. The snow is icy in spots, so as you trudge across the street, you realize something very bad is about to happen…
• What is your favorite part of Thanksgiving?
• Thanksgiving in Silicon Valley. Why is it a big deal?
• Thanksgiving at your house has always been a family tradition. But this year one of your turkeys invited his girlfriend without asking your permission. What really happened?
• The Turkey Prayers
• It’s Thanksgiving night, where is your favorite place to sleep?
• The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
• It’s fall and you are on a hike. Can you see the turkey, or the pumpkin?
• A boy and a girl don’t have any food back at the farm and begin to starve. The family is planning Thanksgiving dinner and refuses to give the good food they have to these two. Imagine what you would do.
• Let your family and friends decide.
• Write a letter to President Abraham Lincoln. Explain to him why Thanksgiving is so important to you and your family.
• My friend, Katie, is hiding in a box in the living room!
• You and your family are sitting at the dinner table and your family starts a huge argument! What argument are you in and why is it happening?
• If you could ask this year’s turkey any question, what would you want to know?
• It’s Thanksgiving night, but it is extremely cold. Can you help get the dinner ready?
• You have to write a speech. What are you thankful for? Why?
• Michaela wakes up on thanksgiving. Who will she wake up next to?
• Miscellaneous Topics
• A Thanksgiving scene or description in paragraph form.
• Pretend you live in the days before Thanksgiving. Respond to the following in at least a paragraph.
• You know that wearing
• A moment like this prompt helps your students become creative. It can also help them with opinion writing. At the bottom of this page, you’ll find some inspiration links.
• Pretend you are a turkey. Something terrible happens to you. Remember all the places and people you’ve ever gone to.
• What do you want for Thanksgiving?
• Do people talk about leaving a place the same way that people talk about leaving their homes?
• Is there one area of your life you need to be especially thankful for? Write about this.
• You’ve just eaten Thanksgiving dinner and now you are cleaning up. Suddenly… a sinkhole!
• Tell about a time you did something good as part of Thanksgiving.
• What would a darth vader discus pie taste like?
• Write a poem about Thanksgiving.
• Thanksgiving Day comes! Your child came home bringing a wounded little duckling with him/her, would you let him/her keep the duckling? If yes, what would you/your kid do in the following days? Meanwhile, if it is a “No” what would you do to help release the little duckling to nature?
• What would you do for the first Thanksgiving party you ever went to? In school, you are creating Thanksgiving party invitations. Explain who will be invited to your fun party.
• I realize that these activities may not be for everyone. If that’s the case, feel free to stop reading now.
• Thank you so much!
• You have fowl friends you don’t want to forget to write about.
• The night before Thanksgiving there is a power outage around the house. It is dark. You can’t see so well. You can’t make your turkey for Thanksgiving. How do you make it through the night with your turkey?
• How did you spend Thanksgiving last year?
• What do you think cranberry sauce tastes like?
• How do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
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• Thanksgiving is coming up. Can you write a letter to the editor of your school newspaper recommending a new traditional food to try for Thanksgiving?
• Accidentally, you discover the perfect turkey stuffing recipe, in a book that’s out of print and hard to find. How do you get it to the brothers?
• You have an hour to pack your bags, what do you take?
• Imagine you are a Pilgrim grown very rich off of hunting turkeys with your bow and arrow. Then you try something new. Even with your bow and arrow, the turkey is able to escape from you. How would you prefer to defeat that turkey?
• Pretend you are a piece of turkey that just fell under the table. What do you do?
• Write about something that is very special to you.
• You turn 10 years old and it’s your first year at elementary school. What is your best memory of your childhood? Describe THAT day and tell why you will always remember it?
• WWhat happens at singles Thanksgiving?
• Why does the rooster crow?
• It is Thanksgiving night and Lily and her family have many chores to get ready for campers to come over. They have to clean, set the table, and more. It’s all too much to do. Then Lily comes up with an interesting idea.
• Do turkeys have kids? Write about a turkey’s kids.
• Write about a nasty surprise at Thanksgiving dinner!
• What is greatest about Thanksgiving?
• Thinking about my favorite Thanksgiving memory!
• You are invited to Thanksgiving Dinner! But you don’t have any clothes. What do you do?
• Tell a funny story of your family’s Thanksgiving celebrations.
• Four people just crashed into a forest! What happens?
• You’ve rescued the turkey and are heading home. Or are you?
• What do you want for Thanksgiving this year? Have you wished for anything?
• It is Thanksgiving morning. Your room is a mess. What do you do to make it clean by the time you have to run to get dressed?
• What do you think of history? Is it relevant now?
• You Gotta Choose
• A big bird swoops down and grabs the turkey. The big bird asks whether it wants to be a pet bird or a pie bird. What does the turkey do?
• It’s Thanksgiving night. You get hungry. But you forgot to prepare the dishes or food. All you have is the turkey and some supplies in the kitchen. What do you do?
• Tell the story from the point of view of Thanksgiving Turkey.
• Milo kept trying to get everyone to have fun… but everyone keeps telling him not to be so crazy!
• Thanksgiving in the barn!
• 1. “I read a book called Thanksgiving.” Then, tell a story about Thanksgiving.
• Make a word collage using Thanksgiving words. Is there anything missing from this collage? Put it in!
• Show how you feel about Thanksgiving.
• Write about anything you want as long as it has something to do with Thanksgiving.
• You are alone. You hate being alone because you hardly ever see anyone. Why is that?
• The Pilgrims are coming over for the annual Ratification Dinner. The Wampanoag are beginning to worry. You’re with the Wampanoag. What do you worry about?
• What would be your Thanksgiving nightmare?
• hoW would you write this, if you had No Hands?
• What is the disaster after the Pilgrims met with the Indians?
• It’s Thursday and Thanksgiving is coming up. Talk about a food that you are thankful for.
• During Thanksgiving day, you see your parents eating at the table. While they eat, you feel sad because you cannot do the same thing. Your idea is to say a prayer for them, to call your friends to bring food to your backyard, and to make a pumpkin treat for those who drop by or have already left their offers. Would you do something like that?
• It’s Thanksgiving Night. You’re looking out the window and see that all your family is having a wonderful time. How do you feel?
• What is the meanest thing you did on Thanksgiving?
• The Native Americans and Pilgrims worked together to survive. Write about that.
• Pretend there is a Thanksgiving parade. Create characters for the proper holiday occasion.
• What is one thing you eat at Thanksgiving? Write a poem, song, saying that explains how you feel about this food you eat.
• Think of a character in your life who is generous and kind. Write an imaginary letter from this character to another character.
• While driving to the Thanksgiving dinner word scramble the flag and define what you see.
• Write a stream of consciousness style for 5 minutes. What do you write on your paper?
• Pretend you are a Pilgrim. What scares you the most about Thanksgiving?
• What are you thankful for?
• Should we be thankful for everything that happens in life?
• A crack has suddenly appeared in your life and is widening. Write what you do to try to stop it.
• If you were a host, what would you be like? Would you cook the turkey? Plan the menu? Feed everyone? Do you like to share? When you share, do you like to share equally? Do you like spoons?
• You have just finished your Thanksgiving dinner. There are a lot of leftovers. What do you do with them?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and you are a turkey activist. How do you bring attention to the plight of the turkey being taken into the turkey farms for Thanksgiving.
• What is your favourite Thanksgiving food?
• What would Thanksgiving be like without cornbread?
• It’s Thanksgiving day, and everything has been ruined. Everyone is sad, but why?
• WWhat do you think the Pilgrims’ Thanksgiving was like?
• It’s Thanksgiving Day and you are hungry. Write from the point of view of the turkey, the cranberry sauce or pumpkin pie.
• Thanksgiving is coming! What are you and your family doing to prepare for Thanksgiving?
• Have you ever seen a turkey? How?
• Who are you grateful to for helping you?
• The table is laid for Thanksgiving dinner and the guests are coming soon. Write about it!
• How do you make Thanksgiving?
• My Thanksgiving became really exciting.
• Think of a funny mistake that might ruin someone’s Thanksgiving dinner. Write about it.
• If your grandma sent you a letter directly from the past, what advice would she have for you?
• In What Ways can families stay connected through the busy holiday season?
• Pretend you can invite one person from history to Thanksgiving dinner. Who would you invite and why?
• What would you like your Thanksgiving turkey to say?
• Guess who’s coming for Thanksgiving dinner?
• Write a scene from a Thanksgiving celebration at your house.
• Thanksgiving Recipe tag writing prompt variation
• Thanksgiving at your house isn’t going very well. What’s wrong?
• Funny or serious, just get right on it!
• You know it’s almost Thanksgiving because you can smell the turkey cooking. Write about your special day.
• Thanksgiving is coming! Who are you bringing to the dinner? What are you bringing?
• Write about what Turkey means to you.
• Where else in your town or city can there be a Thanksgiving miracle?
• What would you ask for if you were the turkey? What would you do if you were the turkey?
• What are the traditions and customs of Thanksgiving? How are they important?
• Thanksgiving dinner is in the oven and it smells good! Your family and friends have gathered around! Okay, the oven explodes! Now what?
• WWhat is the best part about being thankful?
• What happened on the first Thanksgiving? Why should we be thankful?
• Fuel is expensive, so how would the Pilgrims and Native Americans travel if gas was expensive?
• There is a kitten stuck on a tree limb with no way to get down. What does Thanksgiving mean to you?
• Old Mother Hubbard was getting ready for Thanksgiving! This is what happened…
• Thanksgiving is coming to town and you are the turkey that is going to be eaten. You have to run away before the humans eat you, but you need to think of a good reason for why you are running away. It should be good enough for the other turkeys to believe you. What will you tell them?
• Write about your Thanksgiving table from your Thanksgiving feast perspective.
• When you see a peacock, what is the first thing that you do?
• What should you bring to Thanksgiving dinner?
• Now, imagine that you are also the least smart and least special turkey that anyone has ever seen! You and one other turkey are all that’s left in the turkey pen. Maybe there will be room for you both to be “special” this year, even if you are a little stupid.
• Pretend you are an animal who is never, ever going to eat a Thanksgiving dinner. What animal and why not?
• Maddie Morrill
• There is a whisper going around that Pa is planning to eat you at Thanksgiving.
• Mother and child Indians
• How do you feel when you want to go to sleep on Thanksgiving day but you are too excited?
• Turkey is getting closer to the house. What is one way you can get ready for Thanksgiving?
• What reminds you of Thanksgiving?
• How do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
• The decorations are up and Thanksgiving is in two weeks. How do you feel?
• On Thanksgiving day a small turkey crashes down on a magical land. What does he do when he gets there?
• On Thanksgiving… What’s funny to you? Make up a funny story.
• Pretend you are a very clumsy turkey. Thanksgiving is coming and you have to kill the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
• How do turkeys feel about Thanksgiving?
• If you could spend Thanksgiving with anyone you want, who would you pick? Explain why you chose that person.
• Why is turkey for Thanksgiving a funny word?
• Thanksgiving and Halloween are coming up. When is the best time to start your Thanksgiving vacation?
• Pretend you don’t have any food and you really want to play football with the other children on Thanksgiving. How do you convince them that you need to eat before playing?
• A few words that come to mind when thinking about Thanksgiving are…
• You have all great thankful arguments for why you should not be eaten. Write 2-3 of them.
• You capture several ants, then release them on Thanksgiving day. Describe what their day might have been like.
• Get creative and use your imagination with this one.
• Maybe you plan to post your thanksgiving writing all over the walls with turkey-shaped magnetic letters.
• Watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade is Thanksgiving fun for many. Suppose there is something really beautiful, like a swan or a fairy, in the parade and it comes to your house to live with you for Thanksgiving. What does the person love about living with you and what do you love about putting up with them?
• Pretend you are the size of a pea. It’s thanksgiving day. Untie your necktie and free me!
• Pretend you are a turkey, what foolproof survival techniques do you employ?
• A neighborhood dog is running loose on Thanksgiving. What do you tell the mom? What do you tell the dad?
• Make up your own thankful rhyme or poem.
• The plumpest bird
• Warm up your imagination and start writing.
• When a couple sits down to dinner at Thanksgiving, do they play games and gobble at each other, or do they sit quietly for the entire dinner, making polite conversation? How should they behave? Guardian Noonan
• Create a turkey hitchhiker.
• The history of thanksgiving stems from ancient thanksgiving rituals. What are some ancient cultures that engaged in thanksgiving rituals? Which do you fancy? What do you think about them?
• Pretend you have been out on the streets for a while. Thanksgiving comes. What do you do?
• A Thanksgiving poem about corn.
• Chances are slim. But what are your chances?
• Practice the steps of a turkey. Pretend you a turkey. What do you do?
• Thanksgiving is a party for everyone, every animal and the plants! What do you do to get ready for the big day?
• Is thanksgiving all about food?
• What is your funniest Thanksgiving story?
• Diary of a Turkey. Watch how Tom the Turkey finally got his Turkey way!
• It’s Thanksgiving night. Sarah forgot to put the turkey in the oven. What happens?
• Suppose people rescued you from the oven before you could roast. Suppose they adopted you and you were free to roam around the countryside. What would your thankful thoughts be now?
• Toodlie-doo thanks for turkey!
• If you were the general of the troops on the American frontier or the American Civil War, where you would tell your soldiers to hide in order to ambush the other side.
• Thankfulness poems!
• Pretend you did something really wrong to get noticed. Now Uncle Stewart who loves you a lot has to tell the family. What do you tell him?
• Thank you so much!
• Letter to the editor. What do you think of a turkey getting all the praise? Why should we thank a turkey?
• What are you thankful for? Be specific.
• Imagine that you are a turkey who does NOT have permission to be eaten. What do you do?
• Imagine you’ve invited some extra special friends to Thanksgiving dinner, Mickey Mouse, Diego, Dora the Explorer or Winnie the Pooh. Write a story about the party!
• You and your sibling got into a major fight. Now the family Thanksgiving is ruined. What do you do?
• My grandmother is the most wonderful person in the world. Write about her.
• Explain how Thanksgiving is celebrated in your town.
• One Little Thanks
• On the night before Thanksgiving, you wake up and find a talking pig in your room. What do you do?
• People are coming to Thanksgiving. Imagine what your Thanksgiving table will look like.
• The Pilgrims and the Native Americans meet for Thanksgiving Dinner. Rewrite the dialogue so you are the Native American. Write it as a monologue.
• Ask your family for three things you are thankful for. Now you write them down inside the turkey.
• Imagine you are an owner of a small turkey shop. What is the best idea to sell a bunch of turkeys?
• If you were a character in a Thanksgiving story, you could change how it ends. What would you do?
• What is one thing your family does at Thanksgiving?
• You are a piece of frozen white turkey meat you freeze-br-b Formerly known as Ladybird_01, now Anonymous)
• Thanksgiving day and you are all alone. Fall down a creaky staircase while carrying pies. How do you tell your relatives?
• Write a thank you note–to the teacher or to your parents.
• It is Thanksgiving and all the fixings are on the table. Write about that Thanksgiving for your family if it is not next week.
• It is the Turkey Day Parade! Get your pencils ready to write about which Thanksgiving town float is your favorite
• Write about the best Thanksgiving ever.
• Your family didn’t want to face the truth. What was it? Explain why you didn’t want to tell the truth.
• It’s Thanksgiving. Write about what you are thankful for.
• This is a thanksgiving to remember!
• Make a list of family tricks, pranks, and gags to pull on Thanksgiving.
• What is something you are really thankful for or that you are thankful that you do?
• Thanksgiving is coming up. What do you plan to be thankful for?
• To write a Citizens Objection, pretend you are a character in the story. In this case, the character of Pilgrim. Write reasons on why the Pilgrims should be thankful for not having YOU eat the food and drink of the Native Americans.
• Pretend you are a bitter cricket. It’s Thanksgiving time. What do you do?
• It is the night before Thanksgiving. Describe one thing you are thankful for in it.
• What do you think about sweet potatoes?
• What  was  the scariest day of your life?
• What is it like to be a pilgrim? Write about an adventure where you travel on a boat and…
• Thanksgiving wishes for others
• Thinking ahead to Thanksgiving what would you like to ask your family for?
• Pretend that the turkey is now the favorite part of Thanksgiving. In the middle of the night, your parents run out of grocery money and are going to give up on the turkey. Hooray! What did you do?
• Pretend you’re excited for Thanksgiving Day. Write a rap song about your feelings.
• Your wildest Thanksgiving dream comes true…
• Tell the story of the first Thanksgiving.
• calls forth a Christmas story
• It’s the day before Thanksgiving and you can invite three people over to eat a big meal with you. Who do you invite and what will you all talk about?
• If you were very, very smart, what would you get your mom for thanksgiving?
• Give your teacher a great big Thank You
• Imagine yourself waking up on Thanksgiving. What is the first thing you do?
• Thanksgiving is around the corner, who are you thankful for?
• Pretend you are a Pilgrim. Write about a time when you were having a really good day.
• “Thanksgiving is very hard for me because…”
• How would you feel if there was no Thanksgiving?
• What do you remember about Thanksgiving in your family when you were a kid?
• What do you do when you are visiting colonials in the New World?
• Your turkey is out before the big Thanksgiving day. Why is that? And what do you do now?
• What would Thanksgiving be without the Thanksgiving turkey pie? Say Thanksgiving turkey pie and give a definition.
• It’s that time of year again. It’s Thanksgiving!
• Pretend you’re the turkey and Thanksgiving has just started. Remember, you are very lucky.
• Remember a favorite Thanksgiving dinner from when you were a child.
• Pretend you are a pilgrim. What is your name? What are you doing at the moment? What should you be doing?
• Describe what you would be thankful for, for a Thanksgiving turkey?
• You decide to introduce her to the challenge of two turkeys at the same time.
• When the first Cornstalk lost the election, all the fans were celebrating–what/who is the best part about the victory?
• If you were a turkey, what would Thanksgiving dinner taste like to you?
• Will you ever eat tree friends? Explain why or why not and why you agree or disagree on Thanksgiving.
• Thanksgiving tradition in America is to prepare a big feast and have family and friends over to enjoy it. How can a family learn to share?
• A large meteor is heading towards Earth. If it hits, all life on Earth is going to end. It’s Thanksgiving night . . . do you go to sleep or . . . ?
• What do you learn from the story of Thanksgiving?
• What is the best part of Thanksgiving? Is it the cool weather, fun family time, or presents? Send a letter or make some drawings to tell your friends.
• Pretend you are the turkey. Write about everything that happens before you become the main dish.
• You are alone sitting in a room like the pilgrims. What do you decide to do with yourself on Thanksgiving?
• Make a list of the Squeakiest things that happened to you today.
• Imagine your name is Turkey Athletes or Kauffman or Dupree. Your name can be anything you want in this story.
• What is the worst thing about being lost in the wild?
• Explain where to find cranberry sauce code words.
• You wake up and find out that you are the first of the turkeys to be killed for Thanksgiving dinner! How does that make you feel?
• There is this tradition where some turkey ends up being eaten. You are the only turkey still alive. What do you do ?
• Tell the story of how you got your name.
• What if the Pilgrims hadn’t left England? What if they had stayed home?
• If you found a walnut, what would you do with it?
• Make a menu for Thanksgiving dinner.
• You decide to invite your friends and invite them to eat Thanksgiving dinner with you.
• If you were a character in the play of The First Thanksgiving, what would you do?
• Step into the story of your favorite Thanksgiving movie.
• Who lets you out of your cage?
• Thank you Charlie Brown
• Will you be having a big Thanksgiving dinner or a small one? Who are you going to invite? What are you going to make? Who are you going to eat it with?
• Do you always attend Thanksgivings?
• All year you have worked very hard for Thanksgiving to come. What have you done?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and someone is trying to break into your turkey pen. What do you do?
• You can add to this list by printing out these cards with text directions or by getting creative and writing your own prompts!
• How do you make preparations for Thanksgiving? Do you participate in making the food? Which food do you want to cook for everyone? What will you wear? How do you decorate your home?
• What are you thankful for?
• You are a farmer’s wife and you are making dinner for your farmer, but you’ve never cooked before. What happens?
• The Pilgrims were sick and tired of sitting in the Pilgrim State Hospital for the Mentally Disturbed! They managed to escape their restraints and do you know where they went on their giant extended field trip?
• How would your relatives taste, by terrestrial standards? If you could turn your suitemates into something, what would they become? Why?
• Why is Thanksgiving really important?
• Turkey! A Thanksgiving Tale
• If you got a letter telling you that you got to go to see the harvest moon, what would you do in preparation?
• How do you feel about Thanksgiving?
• Can you give the best Thanksgiving recipe that you know?
• How many turkeys are on the Holiday Table on Thanksgiving Day?
• What two events make Thanksgiving a great holiday?
• What are you thankful for?
• You are a child and you are playing a game with your friends. You are thankful for your friends. Thank you for being a friend.
• Why would the Pilgrims want to celebrate Thanksgiving?
• There are two turkeys, two sets of momma and poppa turkeys, and three turkeys on the way. They are all happy until the school bully shows up and tries to ruin their fun. Help the turkeys.
• Pretend you are a turkey pilgrim and you have traveled from the old country. Talk about
• Share the funny list with your students. Challenge them to share with their parents. Your students can think of several trick questions and tricky endings that lead to humorous and unexpected answers. List the questions on lined paper and design a game where everyone takes turns getting trick questions. The family who laughs the most wins! Take a moment to review some of the prompts. Your students can either answer the questions or create a piece of writing that provides the answer. It’s great to model one question and show students how to address it. Addressing the question often leads to great friendships between students who appreciate a good laugh.
• Thanksgiving characters aren’t very interesting. Give them three mighty qualities.
• Do you believe in miracles?
• It’s Thanksgiving Day and you are all dressed up. Where are you going?
• Thanksgiving morning. What do you do first?
• Your dog is really hungry and gobbles everything up. Take a piece of paper and draw a turkey then write about it. Make sure your turkey belongs to a dog.
• You’re going on t
• Pretend you are a Pilgrim. Thanksgiving is coming up. What do you do?
• It’s Thanksgiving and there’s a fight between the pilgrims and the Native Americans!
• Imagine you are a pilgrim. Write about everything that happened to you during your trip across the Atlantic Ocean.
• There has been an accident, ATR is flying around the kitchen. What is King Mrs. Butt’s first reaction?
• How would you diplomatically tell your family that you want to be the center of attention on Thanksgiving?
• Write about a Thanksgiving celebration from the past year.
• Rather than take a traditional trip to see your grandparents for Thanksgiving, you are left alone at your house. Write a description of how you spend Thanksgiving.
• Are you bored with turkey? Why or why not?
• Your youngest sibling has run away and you are feeling very worried.Save the turkey and enjoy your time together!
• On Thanksgiving Marilyn saved her pumpkin pie until after breakfast. Everyone tells her this is very mean. Why?
• You are writing a letter to President Obama about what you are thankful for. Or, you are writing a letter to your State Senator about what is best about your state or territory.
• Thanksgiving food project
• WIf you were a turkey, what color would your feathers be?
• What is the best Thanksgiving food you’ve ever had?
• While your family is at the Thanksgiving feast, you sneak out to get some exploration in. What happens when you are found out?
• You are an intruder at a real surprise Thanksgiving Dinner. You hear people eating, talking, and laughing. What do you do to figure out who is there?
• Thankful for what you have
• You have a certain amount of time to describe how you spent Thanksgiving.
• If you could change anything about Thanksgiving, what would it be?
• I am thankful for…
• If you had to pick ONE THING about being an American, what would you choose? Why?
• If you could invite just one person over to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be?
• Grandma invites all your family to thanksgiving dinner, but you are not good at anything. What will you do to help make the thanksgiving dinner?
• How did you celebrate Thanksgiving?
• What did you do for Thanksgiving?
• Can you think of any problems that may arise at your Thanksgiving dinner?
• Play out a thankful moment in your life
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• Tell about something you are thankful for – every little thing
• Good luck and happy writing!
• What are you thankful for this year?
• Write a sign saying a bunch of things that you are thankful for and the reasons why.
• What do you want to write today?
• What do you think about potatoes?
• It’s Thanksgiving. You and your friends are going on a picnic. What do you bring for a snack?
• Make three spears to kill the ten biggest threats to pumpkin pie.
• Talk about something you thought was fantastic for dinner this year.
• Thankful for Families
• If you are an animal at Thanksgiving. What do you do?
• If Thanksgiving was cancelled, what would you do with your life?
• Describe your mother’s cooking. It can be food or any other great homemade item.
• You decide to volunteer to carve the turkey. Good idea or bad idea?
• My cat, Sherlock the Third, has a problem with Teen Thanksgiving Day. Write a letter to my cat explaining why he was right.
• Before Thanksgiving, the kids get to dress up. What kind of costume will a turkey’s kids wear?
• Give a Thanksgiving speech where you tell all the people what you are thankful for!
• Turtley Pecos Pumpkin and his family are in the woods gathering pumpkins to carve. Suddenly a group of bully foxes comes along and steals them away. Turtley is feeling pretty blue until the foxes put him in a pie and serve him up at their celebration. What happens when he comes to
• What does Thanksgiving mean to you?
• Thanksgiving is the special day of eating turkey. How does it feel to eat turkey? Try writing about how it feels to eat turkey.
• A pig and a turkey are trying to get a thanksgiving. Pretend you’re the turkey. Explain to the pig what you feel.
• What are you thankful for? How did you use these items?
• How do you spend Thanksgiving? Why do you spend it the way you do?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and a poor little turkey gets lost outside. Where will he sleep?
• How do you get ready for a Thanksgiving feast?
• You get a Thanksgiving card from your grandmother from across the country. What does it say? What do you do?
• What do you think happened at the first Thanksgiving?
• Pretend you are one of the pilgrims and you just exchanged your life in England for the New World. You are alone, a stranger in a land. What do you do?
• You must make a Thanksgiving pie/cake/dessert for your teacher. What will be the contents in your Thanksgiving recipe?
• A child has died. On Thanksgiving day, everyone is sad until the believers pray together. What happens?
• Thanksgiving is coming up and you are going to school. What do you wear?
• Give thanks for something before it is too late.
• I’ve always been rather thankful for other people. What would you do if you were this special turkey, and everyone else loved you? How would your life change?
• Pretend you are baking. What do you make? What kinds of things do you bake?
• You’re really lonely, so you order a special Thanksgiving order companion. What will he or she look like?
• Pretend that you get to make a list of anything you want for Thanksgiving! What would you want?
• You are asked to be a greeter for the Thanksgiving Ceremony. What dress do you wear?
• If you could eat one thing for Thanksgiving dinner, what would it be?
• What is the hardest Thanksgiving you ever had to go through? What happened?
• A football player does not celebrate Thanksgiving Day. Come up with great dialog or a strong ending.
• The world is in trouble – it is a crisis. What makes it worse? The President, Governor, Christopher Columbus, or some other important man in history comes up with an idea that may mean that Lima beans will be on the table for Thanksgiving forever. Describe that idea.
• It’s Thanksgiving morning and Grandma thinks you should just crawl under the table and wait for the family to bring you tidbits. Why do you disagree? Thanksgiving is your favorite holiday because what?.
• Write a note from the turkey to the family saying, “Don’t eat me!”
• It’s Thanksgiving time. Which one of your senses are you thankful for?
• Thanksgiving is coming soon. Make a list of things that you can give thanks for before the day.
• What words do you think a turkey might use if he or she could talk and give thanks?
• Forgive one person who has hurt you.
• If the Pilgrims served desserts for Thanksgiving and stuck to the original Thanksgiving menu, what would they serve?
• Three turkeys sit down for Thanksgiving dinner. How did they get there?
• A boy is flying a kite in a cemetery. A kite without a string. Who’s kite is it?
• Remembering the first time you had turkey at Thanksgiving.
• Give someone advice from the perspective of a turkey.
• Now that Thanksgiving is all done, write a fake note from an imaginary grandma. Pretend you have no clue who wrote it.
• Describe a multiplayer Thanksgiving.
• Imaginary Thanksgiving Menu
• The results of the Presidential Election are in. Who won and which candidate did most people in your state vote for?
• Write about Thanksgiving.
• Pretend you are a King or Queen from long ago, giving thanks at Thanksgiving dinner.
• If it were Thanksgiving right now, what would you be eating?
• The suddenly Christmas holiday decorations related to the Thanksgiving Holiday were changed. Write what you thought and what you did.
• And finally, a fun popular tradition is a Gratitude Jar.
• Great choice for kindergarten thanksgiving writing prompts
• It’s Thanksgiving Day, all the way up until midnight. What does that moment look like?
• What is the best part of the day? Your favorite.
• Thankful-ness Word Scramble
• A famous writer writes to Ed? Remember, this is a letter, not a cartoon.
• What wishes do you have for the coming year?
• You and your friends Audie and Darren are baking a pie. Your best hopes are that it will be delicious and it won’t burn. But it does! The three of you go in search of lessons learned. What are you thankful for?
• Describe a time when you ate so much that you were sick.
• Helping Mm mm mm mm Stuck – while trying to eat his Thanksgiving leftovers, Mr. Foster keeps getting his toes stuck to the table
• Write about losing all your Thanksgiving dreams, but then getting them back.
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• What are you thankful for? Who should we give thanks to?
• The next day, you woke up in a field…
• How do you think the Pilgrims felt at Thanksgiving.
• What is the worst thing about Thanksgiving?
• Thanksgiving is about the Pilgrims getting food. So what are you thankful for?
• It’s Thanksgiving and you have a great dinner waiting for you, but you get kidnapped! What HAPPENS?!?
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• Tell about someone who does not look like a great athlete, but is.
• If you wanted to invite a special guest to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be?
• What’s the best thing that could happen this Thanksgiving?
• Visitors from outer-space describe everything on Earth they can see from outer-space.
• One loved one is dead. Write about him or her and how it feels on Thanksgiving morning.
• “Everybody” is having fun eating turkey and watching football on Thanksgiving. Your friend, the turkey, doesn’t have anyone to talk to. What do you do to help?
• Share your favorite Thanksgiving memory in a poem.
• Pretend LIVE editor shows up at your house and asks you to stop eating turkey. Tell your story to him/her.
• A reporter is interviewing the two volunteer grandmothers. Write the interview in third person.
• You are cooking a Thanksgiving turkey. It smells sooo delicious.
• If you didn’t get your way about sitting in the special chair, how do you handle being stood up?
• Talk about what matters most to you this Thanksgiving season.
• Visit your neighbors to be thankful with them!
• The dinner plates were very expensive but.
• You are all alone on Thanksgiving. Write about how you spend the holiday.
• You are about to carve the turkey. Uncle Henry remembers cutting his thumb instead of his finger. Write what might happen.
• Don’t have a turkey! Have a really annoying chicken that is RUINING THANKSGIVING! Oh wait, just a regular ol’ chicken…
• Thanksgiving is on Thursday. A SMART turkey can use this information to trick the turkeys that aren’t so smart. Write a scenario using information specific to Thanksgiving Day.
• What do you do when you have to clean your room or do your chores?
• It’s the day before Thanksgiving. Write about what happens.
• What do you think will be on the Thanksgiving menu? What will you wear?
• What would you like to eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
• The fragrance of Thanksgiving stuffing fills the house while everyone gathers around the table. The rabbits set the table and everyone sits down to eat.
• The first Thanksgiving happened 400 years ago. Write about that first Thanksgiving from the point of view of a plant or tree.
• What are the best things that an entirely ordinary turkey can do?
• Thanksgiving day is here. What is the family…
• Somethings wrong! Somehow each year a turkey is forgotten!
• It’s getting late in the day and the turkey is still not done. What do you do?
• Have you ever done any kind of volunteering work? Maybe now is a good time to start writing about it.
• Did you have a good Thanksgiving? If so write about the best part of the holiday. If not write about the problem aspect.
• Someone is throwing a huge Thanksgiving party at their house. Write about what happens and what you do.
• What is your favorite Thanksgiving Cereal?
• A giant package shows up with your favorite thing inside! What is it and why do you like it?
• You’re at Thanksgiving dinner and you don’t know what to say. What would you say? Now that you have said it, what are the results?
• What would happen if someone wanted to outlaw Thanksgiving?
• Crabby & Squibbly live in a gutter. They are looking for a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving night. What do they find?
• Thanksgiving Day is a very busy time for turkeys. Prepare yourself with these 6 sentence reading and writing prompts to help your children write an informational paragraph on what turkeys spend this special day doing.
• It’s Thanksgiving night and the traffic is horrible.
• The Burning of an Unnamed Village – byLaurence Brander The flowers are deep red and gold and the trees are grey and dark. The sky is a deep, dark grey filled with the smoke of…
• It’s Thanksgiving and you have invited strangers to eat with you. Spit-spot! There is no food or furniture! What will you do?
• Who is your hero? What makes this Superman, Wonder Woman, your Daddy or Mummy, Batman or Spiderman?
• Thanksgiving is coming up and Karen under the table is drooling all over her special Thanksgiving dress. Do you want to help her?
• Thanksgiving feast. Everyone holds their hands above their head with one hand. What would you feel or hear?
• Who do you love the most in the world?
• Write about the biggest turkey you ever met.
• Is Thanksgiving quackable? What does this even mean?
• I’ve noticed some families that have different traditions for Thanksgiving. What do you hate about thanksgiving and what do you like?
• Great party! One guest got so high from the treats that he did something to offend just about everyone else. Who was it and what did he or she do?
• What do turkeys appreciate?
• Look at your hands. Are you thankful for them? What do they look like? Are they clean? Are they big or small? Are they white or brown? What do you do with them?
• This is a rhyming welcome speech for everyone at Thanksgiving.
• Do you like Thanksgiving food? How about the Thanksgiving parade?
• What do you think a Thanksgiving Day is like at school for the teachers?
• What are the things you do all the time? Do you do anything better than anyone else in the world?
• If you hate Thanksgiving or family get-togethers, make something up on the spot and write about your character faking being loving!
• You are a turkey holding a pie. What will your last words be?
• Draw your family tree starting with one person, then adding branches that represent kids, grandkids and great grandkids, etc. Write about the experiences that make this person special to you.
• Your school is putting on a Thanksgiving play about the Mayflower. You are supposed to be the Indians. Is this a good thing? What do you think about it?
• Represent the Thanks-giving menu in haiku with pumpkin pie representing desserts. Or you can write on another item.
• You’re writing an advertisement for turkey giving hints about what to do when preparing a turkey for Thanksgiving.
• You are the Thanksgiving turkey. One day the farmer notices you are looking sick. Tell the story of what happens.
• Why did Indians take part in the first Thanksgiving?
• Why should turkeys be thankful?
• Shoot a candy cane crossbow and declare freedom!
• How would you get turkey off the menu? A Thanksgiving without a turkey? Could you do it?
• What if Cinderella is a turkey?
• Can you imagine? What would it be like if….
• Before the Thanksgiving guests arrived, uncle Ned slipped up to the attic. What does he find up there?
• Sometimes at Thanksgivings, family members start fighting. Imagine one Thanksgiving that you were at this happened.
• What would happen if it were Thanksgiving and you forgot to give someone a gift?
• Set the table for Thanksgiving dinner or make a wrapping paper turkey for the front door.
• How do you think the Pilgrims felt when they discovered they didn’t have enough food?
• Describe a time when you helped with a meal.
• You are a pilgrim at Thanksgiving. What would you eat on Thanksgiving?
• Thanksgiving night. It’s very late and you have to decide whether to go to bed or wake up. Who will you be?
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• What is the funniest thing that could happen on Thanksgiving?
• Your son is getting ready to roast the turkey and forgot to take it out of the oven. What do you do?
• What would you do if your little sister lost your grandmother’s ivory bracelet?
• You are a pilgrim and you discover that someone in your village is providing magical entertainment each night during the winter. What is entertainment? What is the audience doing?
• Watch your favorite movie and sit down to “feast” on a virtual Thanksgiving dinner.
• Pretend you are a very, very hungry person! What would be your ideal Thanksgiving dinner?
• How do you prepare for Thanksgiving and what are you thankful for?
• As a shiny hot new penny, count the things you are thankful for.
• Whip up the most delicious Thanksgiving pie ever.
• The Ghost of Thanksgiving Future shows up and it is really gross! What do you say to it?
• Where do you think the Native American Indians are?
• Describe your most memorable Thanksgiving Feast.
• Pretend you are royalty. Observe your dining room table where your ruler is celebrating Thanksgiving with all his closest friends and family. Write down in detail what elaborate meal they are presenting.
• What are you thankful for? Is everyone thankful for the same things? Is everyone thankful for things in the same way?
• Thanksgiving is coming. Make a list of things to do to get ready for this wonderful holiday.
• What do turkeys like to do before the holidays?
• It’s Thanksgiving at church and you have to make things worse!
• What is one thing you can do to help your family have a happier Thanksgiving?
• If you were going to design your own holiday, what would it be like? How do you celebrate it?
• OK, you’re the turkey and you’ve just figured out Thanksgiving is coming up and everyone is getting ready to eat you! What do you do now?
• Once there was this little boy named Finley and he wanted this Thanksgiving turkey SO bad. But one day this cat came around…
• Tell your parents what you are thankful for that has to do with them.
• Thanksgiving is gone. What’s the worst thing that happened?
• You are going to ask everyone to clap your feet!
• Write about a meal your family has had… Then write why you think they were grateful for it.
• If you don’t get the answers to your questions right, you won’t be able to eat your corn that night!
• Pretend that Grampa gets very drunk when he comes in this year. It’s going to be funny! Write about what Grandpa does.
• National Read a Book Day is always on August 7. The idea is to read at least one book to your young reader so they will learn to read.
• Funny yummy yucky Thanksgiving Foods.
• You are a very famous newspaper reporter and you have to write about the Pilgrims. Which Pilgrim would you choose?
• You don’t have any friends! What do you do?
• Write a letter to your turkey thanking it for its service.
• Think of a sports memory and write about it.
• Your family wants to cook a turkey for Thanksgiving. What’s the story?
• You are sitting at the Thanksgiving table. Tell two stories. Pretend there is an empty chair at the table. Hold like the person is sitting in the chair and tell them you are thankful for a specific thing.
• Thanksgiving is coming, and you are so busy you forget to thank God. You start to get worried. The night before Thanksgiving your gift from God.
• Have you ever had a rotten turkey? What happened to it?
• Be thankful for your food this thanksgiving, because it could be worse!
• Thanksgiving dinner is done and all the food is gone! What happened?
• What is your favorite Thanksgiving Food?
• Describe fresh hot soup on a cold fall day… then a warm cup of cocoa
• It’s Thanksgiving night and there is no dinner! Where are you going to have dinner? What do you think Dinner will be like?
• You are sitting around a fire talking about lost loved ones. What do you remember about them?
• Write about your little brother or sister being annoying.
• It’s Thanksgiving. You are very hungry. You are at school and don’t know what is for lunch – it could be turkey or the dreaded pasta. What do you do?
• You don’t like what is being served at Thanksgiving dinner. What do you do?
• Pretend you are a very worried family cat and Thanksgiving is coming up. Turkey threats, turkey praise, turkey everything.
• A man visits your college. He tells you the story of the Thanksgiving special years ago. Afterward, you get to decide what happened behind the fourth wall.
• If you were to make a Thanksgiving movie what would it be about?
• Imagine you had some robot arms stuck onto you where you would never have any arms but you were really grateful for the body you have.
• Thanksgiving is coming up. Somehow your dad got a girlfriend and she always gets on your nerves. What do you do?
• What if there was no Thanksgiving? Imagine that there will never be another Thanksg day.How would you feel? What would you do?
• A turkey’s first Thanksgiving. What was interesting about it?
• Write a letter to the turkey and ask him how he feels about the holiday.
• How do you feel about turkeys and turkey stuffing?
• A turkey gobbles and gobbles and gobbles. Writing Prompts for Thanksgiving Turkey
• Look at the ingredients that make up a beautiful Thanksgiving meal. What’s your favorite part?
• Write a poem celebrating ground beef or how thankful you are to have it.
• Are you thankful that you have a lot to be thankful for. Tell your readers why.
• Pretend for a minute that you are a very hungry hunter. What do you do?
• Thanksgiving Dinner is coming up! What details would you want mentioned in the Thanksgiving story?
• What does your perfect Thanksgiving turkey look like?
• Before Thanksgiving dinner what should we give thanks for in your life?
• It’s dark, cold, and windy outside and you and your best friend are stuck on a third floor roof and have to wait until morning for help. Who came up with Thanksgiving, and why wasn’t the turkey invited?
• How many turkeys are there?
• What are you thankful for?
• A Neighbor is coming over to your house. They don’t know about your crisis. You need to cover it up quickly.
• Someone just ran into your living room and tumbled to the floor! You run over and help them. Find out what happened.
• Thanksgiving is a time to share what we are thankful for. Write about what you can share with others.
• If you’re the turkey what is your plan of escape or revenge?
• On Thanksgiving night everybody goes to sleep very even though they ate too much. What is a Happy Parade?
• Explain what a Pilgrims and Indians Thanksgiving would be like.
• A visit to the farm. Changing the animals’ water.
• If you had the option to ride a turkey or stay in your chair at Thanksgiving, which would you choose and why?
• What was your worst Thanksgiving?
• What are your plans for Thanksgiving dinner?
• What are you thankful for?
• A letter to your child from a turkey.
• Explain what happens when you sit down to the Thanksgiving meal. Who attends? Is it fun?
• You have been looking forward to Thanksgiving your whole life. It finally arrives!
• Thanksgiving is here, Grandma announces, we are having both ham and turkey. Which do you prefer? Explain why.
• It’s Thanksgiving Day. The food is ready to be cooked but there is a big mud pie on the floor in front of the oven. You are smart and all, but how do you clean it up and cook the food in time?
• A thing happened a year ago at Thanksgiving. Write about what happened.
• List some good manners for a Very Special Turkey.
• Make a comic strip about how you would feel if you were a turkey being cooked on Thanksgiving.
• This story doesn Pair Someone with Sorry to tell you this but you are going to relocate to Nantucket to become a piece of Cornish hen and Thanksgiving turkeys don’t live very long so get moving. This is your day sapper Turn off the radio and take a walk alone in the woods this weekend
• What’s the worst Thanksgiving you’ve ever had? How did you get through it?
• Create a Thanksgiving ad in which everybody reminds you that they are thankful for you.
• When does Thanksgiving start?
• Dinner is burned, the turkey is terrible, and you have company coming in thirty minutes. What do you do?
• Thanksgiving Day is here! Thanksgiving is here! What are you thankful for?
• Warm soup is a great start to any meal. You’ve made some soup but now the kitchen is really cold. How do you keep your soup from getting cold?
• Thanksgiving is near and the first arrival is Little Timmy’s family. What special parties should they enjoy?
• You can choose to write about anything that Thanksgiving means to you or any memorable Thanksgiving you’ve had before.
• When you catch someone dumping food into the garbage, what would you tell them?
• Children all over the world are participating in a “Gobble, Gobble Read”, a day to read a special Thanksgiving story. Explain how you would read through the pile of Thanksgiving opportunity books for the day.
• I’d sure be thankful for no more black olives, or cream of mushroom soup.
• You are the turkey and Stanley is shooting at it. Pretend you’re the turkey.
• Explain how Timi the Turkey got tired of the same things every Thanksgiving. Write about how excited you are and how you can’t wait to get to the turkey.
• November is the month for giving thanks. But do you give thanks enough?
• Asks questions about the student .
• Pretend you can talk to a turkey. What does he/she talk about?
• Furry turkeys come to Thanksgiving dinner with other guests. How do the turkeys get along?
• Will you eat turkey at Thanksgiving? Explain why or why not.
• Come up with a Thanksgiving song. All stanzas should rhyme.
• Enter this sandwich contest and win a million dollars!
• Are you thankful for your friends and family?
• A hilarious Thanksgiving story. 3 kids get locked in a room and try to escape.
• Write a journal entry as a turkey being raised for Thanksgiving.
• As a busy turkey mom you have to shop for all stuff for Thanksgiving meals. Make a list of 12 things you need to cook and shopping advice.
• Homeless Crack Baby is hungry. What do you do?
• Do you wear a stylish pair of jeans? These jeans blend with the scenery and become invisible, becoming more fashionable than ever!
• You’re sitting at Thanksgiving dinner and don’t have a lot to be thankful for. Now you do. How will you become thankful?
• Now that you have read some ideas above for an excellent report on print or interactive writing on the Thanksgiving holiday. These prompts include how to write several good points about the meaning of Thanksgiving that youngster should develop around in the report. You will find each with a handful simple guidelines sophisticated to implementing them. To ensure that report on Thanksgiving special ideas for your children that you can expect more.
• What are you thankful for in your life?
• A letter from a pioneer woman thanking someone for a wonderful Thanksgiving meal.
• Sometimes on Thanksgiving families have parties for their relatives. What’ll they be like?
• Just ten more days until Thanksgiving!
• What do turkeys like to eat for Thanksgiving?
• If you were the turkey what would you do? If you do not like your current life, who or what would you be?
• The Pilgrims came over on the Mayflower. What did they do once they got to the cold weather?
• At one time or another everyone has gone to a party they really didn’t want to go to. Write a scene about it.
• A happy family that is thankful for everything!
• Trucks have arrived full of delicious produce from farms all around the country and are waiting to be unloaded at the grocery store. Write what your experience would be as you unload all the trucks. Make sure to explain the job, how you got the job, what the transport experience was like, and how much money you made. Create friends for yourself in the essay. Be sure to create an interesting and believable story.
• Have you ever felt thankful for anything before? Tell us about it. How did you feel?
• What are the things you are looking forward to the most for Thanksgiving?
• Put yourself in the turkey position!
• Pretend you are the turkey! Who wants you for Thanksgiving dinner?
• It’s Thanksgiving and your balloon got stuck in a tree. What do you do?
• Turkey Bingo is played at this time of the year. Instead of numbers, the words are…YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT! Circle the appropriate food for each direction.
• Thanksgiving happens every year. Write a speech a turkey might give each year on Thanksgiving. Whatever you talk about, you must compare it to Thanksgiving.
• The pilgrims were thankful they did not have to give up a small piece of land and that they did not have to live with the Native Americans. Then what happened?
• It’s Thanksgiving morning. The turkey is defrosting in the refrigerator. What do you do now?
• Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
• Thanksgiving is coming up, but nobody has bought a turkey. What do you do?
• Compliments, Complaints, and Exaggeration
• What’s the trouble in Friendly Town?
• Black Friday – Try to convince your parents that you don’t need a new toy for Xmas.
• Describe your best Thanksgiving ever.
• Would you prefer to be in the pantry, in the oven, or on the dinner table?
• Where is “Turkey Land” located?
• What happens at your Thanksgiving table during your Thanksgiving feast?
• It’s Thanksgiving night, but you can’t go to sleep because you have too much to be thankful for. What are some of the things?
• Describe how Turkey’s Day is different from Thanksgiving.
• What are you thankful for?
• Sometimes, after Thanksgiving dinner is over, the leftover turkey ends up on top of the refrigerator…in a big pile of dirt. What does the turkey do in this situation?
• Ode To Turkey
• The turkey is running away and joining the wild turkey gang. What happens next?
• What’s the worst thing that has happened to you on a Thanksgiving?
• Write a funny story of how a stork got confused and accidentally delivered a bunch of animals on Thanksgiving.
• The turkey at the supermarket looks very sad. What do you think might make it feel better?
• It’s the next day and the Rich family has just finished their turkey dinner. What do they all get up and do?
• What’s the best thing about celebrating Thanksgiving?
• A volunteer is needed to help with the cranberry sauce. What does he/she do?
• You are very hot but you have to cook the turkey. But the turkey is very hot too. What do you do?
• Pretend you can talk to birds. The next bird you see you have to ask him/her what he or she is thankful for. What does s/he say?
• Do you get to have turkey for Thanksgiving? If yes, what kinds?
• Think of a really funny Thanksgiving pair of words– something like tryptophan and black Friday, or thankful and huge lines.
• The Pilgrims were grateful for the pilgrims, What are you thankful for?
• Try performing one and have your family members be the judge. It’d be great fun.
• There has been a terrible mistake at the Thanksgiving feast. The turkey was put in the oven by an inexperienced cook and came out burned. How do humans deal with this crisis?
• Have you ever had your Thanksgiving ruined by a big disappointment, a let down, or a someone or something that just ruined everything?
• Pretend you are a very old turkey. Thanksgiving has come and gone. What are your thoughts about turkey day?
• Everybody was running around and the turkey went into the oven and got cooked. The family thought that the turkey was going to explode. What happened?
• There you are, the Thanksgiving dinner is all ready. You are waiting for your family to finish cooking but then…a horrible tornado hits. Where do you hide?
• Consider a different holiday first then do a Thanksgiving version of it.
• What is your favorite Thanksgiving food?
• What’s so funny? You are sitting at the table and a few people are laughing. What are they laughing about?
• Your spouse has snuck off to have Thanksgiving with her/his family. You are celebrating Thanksgiving alone. What are your thoughts as you prepare for Thanksgiving dinner alone?
• It is the day before Thanksgiving. What are you doing to get ready for guests?
• Sometimes it’s hard to be thankful when times are tough. Don’t give up and find five good things about your life.
• Pretend you are a Pilgrim having a dream or a vision and you see disaster ahead. You have to convince the Pilgrims to not arrive in America on the ship. What do you do?
• Why is it hard for people sometimes to think about what they have instead of what they haven’t?
• It’s Thanksgiving and we have all sorts of things to be thankful for. This year it’s going to be a Thanksgiving to remember. Write about that!
• What do you know about the first Thanksgiving?
• Is Thanksgiving about food or family? Give three reasons why Thanksgiving is about food or family.
• Tell us about a great Thanksgiving.
• Your journey to grandma’s house has just begun. Though you are tired, you know Thanksgiving is only a couple days away. Use your imagination and bring a few people on this journey with you.
• I just got a cat for thanksgiving. Or we had a long car ride and got back home on thanksgiving morning. You’re exhausted and starving! What do you do?
• Use your imagination for scenarios.
• Explain misery in three/five/seven tales.
• What food will you be thankful for?
• We should all be thankful for one thing. Write that down along with why you are grateful for it.
• What do you like to eat on Thanksgiving? Write about that.
• The turkey the night before Thanksgiving is starting to smell. What do you do?
• What would you do if you were the first person to discover America?
• Thanksgiving is a joyous holiday filled with birds, stuffing and family. You are a turkey. Why do you make the best Thanksgiving?
• You would do anything to be a citizen of the U.S. What are you willing to do?
• Create a comic strip with you as the main character as a turkey.
• Pretend you are a silly turkey. What happens at Thanksgiving?
• It’s Thanksgiving and you are responsible for giving thanks to someone. How do you do so?
• When was the last time you were thankful for something?
• IF you could wish for one thing, what would it be?
• What are the colors of Thanksgiving? Write about them.
• Let’s pretend it’s Thanksgiving night and you have to tell a ghost story.
• It’s time to go shopping for Thanksgiving. You have to get enough food to feed a lot of people for a long time. But it is in 30 minutes! How do you do it?
• Thanksgiving night is starving because everyone is eating a big feast. The turkey was planned because there are more children at the table than adults are. YOU the turkey is smarter. Write about it!
• Thanksgiving is this week and you are not feeling well to cook for your family. What do you tell them?
• Do you think Americans celebrate Thanksgiving too much? Why or why not?
• Annie tries to surprise the family by cooking a birthday cake and decorating it like a turkey. It tastes bad, and Russell runs away.
• Now that you are not a turkey anymore, why do you care so much about Thanksgiving?
• Thanksgiving is only about tasting good. What do you taste?
• A terrified turkey is running from a mob of hatchet-wielding turkeys! What happens?
• What experience better than sitting on a hill and watching the activities at the feast. What makes it better?
• How is having a farm different from having a fast food restaurant?
• Please feel free to add your own thanksgiving questions/prompts in the comment section.
• Cornell notes is a device used to record information.
• Is there an elephant in the room we need to talk about concerning Thanksgiving?
• It’s Thanksgiving night and the turkey is burning!
• Compared to the Pilgrims first Thanksgiving, describe what Thanksgiving is like today.
• Most of the people around her had left to visit their families already, except for the girl’s two brothers. They were fighting while waiting for the dinner to finish, but later both agreed that Thanksgiving was stressful and was overrated. How would you write the opening paragraph if you wanted to give this same experience?
• It’s Thanksgiving and your family and friends are gathered for a big feast. You have been dreading it because you know you are going to be made into a delicious Thanksgiving turkey!
• What is one small thing you are thankful for?
• It is your best friend’s birthday and you have nothing to give them! Write a letter to them. Mention that it is their birthday. Tell them that you have nothing and you want to show them love in some way. Let him or her know you will bring something to their birthday party or you will write a fancy card!
• Make a Thanksgiving poem about the food served
• You are sitting at the Thanksgiving dinner table. It is the host’s job to carve the turkey at Thanksgiving dinner. If you were the host what would you say to the guest to calm them down if they started to shake a bit in anticipation of the meal?
• It is Thanksgiving and there is a parade happening. Each person in the parade is thanking everyone else behind the parade. That means you are in the parade. Write a few sentences of what you would say if you were in the parade.
• What is your wildest idea for a twist on this holiday and make it your own?
• You are at a turkey farm for the holidays. You are all alone until some new turkeys arrive. What happened to the other turkey? Write a surprising ending.
• This list of thanksgiving writing prompts is organised in a more reader friendly way. You can choose something based on what you are thankful for, or what’s the best for the topic of Education if you’re writing for school.
• What do you think the pilgrim children did before, after and during Thanksgiving?
• Name five things you are thankful for.
• Thanksgiving Night is coming and Cousin Eddie is coming too!
• If you were writing a poem about Thanksgiving, what two things would you rhyme?
• What do you wish your family members would do or achieve?
• If you were the director of this Thanksgiving tableaux, who would play you? Who would be on either side of you? Who would be to the right and left of you? Who would be across from you?
• Characters are originally going to eat the turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but then end up saving it. How?
• Some foods are great on Thanksgiving. Some foods aren’t so great. What kinds of foods are you thankful for?
• Thanksgiving is about family. What makes your family so special?
• Advise a person who does not have your advantages.
• Sarah and Bill are the perfect world’s cutest couple. They’re meeting your family for the first time. You are so confident these two will make your family happy. What are you doing?
• The best desserts are old-fashioned desserts. But modern appliances make it easier to prepare desserts. Write about this dilemma.
• Pretend someone is chasing you and your friends. Ask three of your friends to let you hide in their place if you ask them where you are.
• What are you thankful for?
• A snowstorm is coming on a day where you are supposed to have Thanksgiving dinner. Explain how the family works it all out.
• Pretend you’re the turkey and the White House is about to make a big announcement about you!
• Express your appreciation for food and sit with food in your hands for five minutes.
• Tell a scary story of Thanksgiving
• This is an instructional text. Thanksgiving snuck up on the Pilgrims. What do you think Thanksgiving snuck up on?
• Cousins always get along better than others in the family.
• Thanksgiving is next week. You travel forward into the future and it’s Thanksgiving. Write about
• Now make it scarier.
• How would you plan a Thanksgiving dinner with a small problem?
• Describe a fingerprint. Explain how other people’s fingerprints are different from your own.
• Pretend you are a family living in two different states. How do you communicate before and after Thanksgiving?
• Humor suggests that turkey needs to be well lubricated in order to gain entrance to heaven. What are three things all turkeys must do before going to heaven?
• Do you have a family tradition of giving thanks? What is it?
• What happened to the old Indians?
• Pretend Thanksgiving is coming up and your grandmother sends you to get three jars of her famous raspberry jam while she is making stuff for the dinner. You find that you have to cross a street that is scary and try to watch that you are not hit by a car when crossing it. What will you do?
• You forgot to be thankful for something. You have to give up something you love. Sad!
• It’s Thanksgiving morning and you wake up to rain.
• Thursday Thanksgiving came early this year. We are thankful for being thankful.
• Do you like to eat turkey as a meal? or turkey as a cupcake?
• Thanksgiving is coming, so you and your family need a program for the whole day. Now you have to write it!
• One of your teeth falls out while your family is sitting at the table eating dinner. How do you deal?
• If you could give the earth just one thing, what would you wish for?
• If you could invite anyone to Thanksgiving dinner, who would it be?
• Pretend you are a pumpkin carving expert. Thanksgiving is coming up. Write the worst pumpkin carving idea you can think of.
• Name some things you are thankful for as you look back over the year.
• Are they humans or are they turkeys? You get stuck in a traffic jam while driving in heavy rain. You’ve only brought sandwiches, fruits and drinks, but Thanksgiving is tomorrow! What will you do and what will you decide to eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
• It’s Thanksgiving time and you are washing the dishes. Suddenly the doorbell rings. The person at the door says they are here for the dinner invitation.
• Suppose there was a perfect Thanksgiving. What would it be like? What do people say? What do you eat? What do you do? How do you feel?
• What special skills do turkeys have? You are a turkey. How do you use your special talent to save Thanksgiving?
• Why take time to sit and think about how thankful we are for everything around us when we can rush around screaming, fighting, doing all those things that take care of a big family dinner?
• Some people think turkeys are lucky. Why do you think turkeys are lucky?
• You have so much to be thankful for. Write about any of the things you are thankful for
• What three things did you learn at Thanksgiving Dinner?
• You are the first Thanksgiving guest to arrive. Tell the others what a great day you had with the Pilgrims.
• Who is the most important person/people in your life?
• The turkey went missing from the table during Thanksgiving dinner and was later found unconscious. Where did the turkey go?
• Before reading this turkey story and poem, take a quick trip down Thanksgiving memory lane by watching your favorite Thanksgiving Turkey song video. Here are two fun turkeys I’ve run into on youtube. the first is a panic attack
• A letter to my gratefulness.
• A poem about Thanksgiving
• Thanksgiving is fast approaching. Carly calls you in the morning. What is she asking about?
• A lace falls off the top of your mom’s cake. What happens?
• Anything that helps their imagination
• WWhere did Thanksgiving begin?
• You are going to the big parade at Disneyland. What are you going to do?
• A funny Thanksgiving illustration
• Write a story about Thanksgiving.
• Be as descriptive as possible!
• A male and a female turkey meet together. What will happen in such a situation? What will the male and the female turkeys feel and do? Post the comment in your blog and share it here in your comment.
• Thanksgiving means family! Write
• Draw a Thanksgiving tree.
• Remember — Thanksgiving Writing
• A group of pilgrims say there is no need for trick or treat costumes or treats on purpose.
• If there were no such thing as Thanksgiving what would you invent?
• Trying to distract the conversation away from Mom’s terrible cooking. Give reasons why you love Thanksgiving and whether it’s better than Christmas.
• How do you like your turkey?
• Maybe you could fly to Hawaii, hiding in a tiki bar.
• What is something you learned today in school or from a teacher?
• It’s Thanksgiving morning and you awaken with a fright because the turkey is missing.
• Who’s coming over to dinner? The pilgrims will eat like kings. The Natives will watch. What do they think?
• What is the worst thing that could happen on Thanksgiving Day?
• You have just arrived at your new home a week before Thanksgiving. Guess what, it’s eviction day! But you find out that the foreclosed home is still someone’s home.
• You are sitting next to a Thanksgiving dinner guest that you don’t know very well. What is your conversation like?
• This Thanksgiving my family…
• You have been captured by the Indians. How will you try to get home?
• What are your favorite Thanksgiving memories from childhood?
• Another Thanksgiving has come to town. Who are the turkeys this year?
• Imagine standing in the kitchens. Where are you and what are you doing there? Distribute turkey dinners.
• What are four things you shouldn’t forget about?
• Each year, as the weather gets colder, the fire gets warmer and Thanksgiving comes closer.
• Thank goodness you’re not a turkey!
• What do you haven’t been thankful for?
• Write about a time you did something mean.
• Pretend you just saw a sandwich floating by. You are a sandwich.

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