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Tearable Turkey

turkey4.jpgMaterials
Sheet of brown construction paper for each participant.

Activity
Participants must rip a sheet of construction paper into the shape of a turkey — behind their back. They are not allowed to look at their creation until it is complete. Hang the works of art up for everyone to judge. Give prizes for the best-looking turkeys.

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Christ’s Banquet Table

turkey6.jpgImagine that you have been invited to Thanksgiving dinner at the home of the richest man in the world. You pull up a chair at a table two football fields long that’s piled high with so much turkey, dressing, potatoes, bread, carrot cake, pumpkin pie, mixed vegetables, milk, and anything else you can think of that the table is about to break under the load. Your host tells you to take your fill of anything you see.

Thank you very much,’ you say. ‘Might I please have half a cranberry?’

Your astonished friend nearly chokes on a candied yam and replies,
‘Please have all you would like. That’s why I invited you! You’re hungry, and here is everything you need to get full.’

‘Thank you so very much,’ you say. ‘Perhaps I will have a sip of water.’

Ridiculous, we say. Who would ever act like that? If it were us, we’d gobble up so much food they’d have to use a bulldozer to move us out.

Why is it, then, that when it comes to getting full spiritually, we settle for a half a cranberry?

Paul doesn’t want that for us, and in this passage he reminds us that in Christ we have all we need to be all that God wants us to be.

Not infrequently you’ll come across people who say either in word or deed that their lives are impoverished. Sometimes, remarkably, you’ll find a believer who for some reason is looking for something else.
He is not satisfied. She is not filled full.

Remember: The extent to which you need something else to fill you full is the extent to which you find Christ deficient. If you find Christ deficient, then you have found something in contradiction of Scripture, which says that in Christ all the fullness of Deity resides in bodily form.

We’ve got to decide, Is it true that in Christ we have all that we need?

You’ll find in the church today many people propagating all kinds of things that believers ‘need.’ Not infrequently these things that Christians ‘need’ have exceedingly tenuous connections to Christ, ‘in whom all
fullness dwells.’ As soon as someone tells you that you need this, that, and the other thing, ask yourself, Is this in any way diverting my attention from Christ? Is there any sense in which this is perverting the gospel of Christ, which tells me all fullness is in him? If I get into this
particular thing, will it in any way subvert the authority of Christ in my life?

Beware! Scripture declares that in Christ is all fullness, and if you are related to him, you have been given all fullness. We don’t need something super-added, extra-plus to Christ. What we need is to daily
discover all that we already have in him.

How much have you eaten off of Christ’s banquet table? How full are you?”

Source: Stuart Briscoe- “Secrets of Spiritual Stamina”

 

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Top Ten Signs You’ve Eaten Too Much Thanksgiving Dinner

turkey_dinner.jpg10. Hundreds of volunteers have started to stack sandbags around you.
9. Doctor tells you your weight would be perfect for a man 17 feet tall.
8. You are responsible for a slight but measurable shift in the earth’s axis.
7. Right this minute you’re laughing up pie on the carpet.
6. You decide to take a little nap and wake up in mid-July.
5. World’s fattest man sends you a telegram, warning you to “back off!”
4. CBS tells you to lose weight or else.
3. Getting off your couch requires help from the fire department.
2. Every escalator you step on immediately grinds to a halt.
1. You’re sweatin’ gravy.

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Turkey Hunt

turkeytom.jpgMaterials
None

Activity
Play a classic game of “Hide and Seek,” but call it a turkey hunt.

1. One player covers his eyes and counts to a number while all the turkeys hide.
2. When he reaches the number, he uncovers his eyes and tries to find all the turkeys!

Variation
Only one turkey hides. When the first player is far away from the hidden turkey, everyone else makes quiet gobbling sounds. As he gets closer to the turkey’s hiding location, everyone makes louder gobbling sounds until the hunter finds the Turkey.

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Thanksgiving Weather Report

Turkeys will thaw in the morning, then warm in the oven to an afternoon high near 190F. The kitchen will turn hot and humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or cold shoulder.

During the late afternoon and evening, the cold front of a knife will slice through the turkey, causing an accumulation of one to two inches on plates. Mashed potatoes will drift across one side while cranberry sauce creates slippery spots on the other. Please pass the gravy.

A weight watch and indigestion warning have been issued for the entire area, with increased stuffiness around the beltway. During the evening, the turkey will diminish and taper off to leftovers, dropping to a low of 34F in the refrigerator.

Looking ahead to Friday and Saturday, high pressure to eat sandwiches will be established. Flurries of leftovers can be expected both days with a 50 percent chance of scattered soup late in the day. We expect a warming trend where soup develops. By early next week, eating pressure will be low as the only wish left will be the bone.

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Count Your Blessings

Materials
1. A blank sheet of paper and something to write with for each person.
2. A timer

Activity
1. On your signal to begin, everyone should write down everything they are thankful for that can be described in two words or less.
2. Set a timer, for two minutes (or less) and tell them to begin.
3. When the timer goes off each youth must count how many items they have.
4. The person with the most items should read their list and if anyone else has those items on their list also, then everyone who has the items must cross them off the list. Only unique items remain.
5. The next person continues in the same way, calling out the items that remain on his/ her list. If the item is unique it remains. If someone else has the same item than all who have it cross the item off their lists.
6. Continue until everyone has gone, then each person must count up the unique items he or she has on the list.
7. Award a prize for the person with the highest number of unique answers.

Discussion
1. What was the most surprising thing that someone was thankful for?
2. How did creating your list affect you?
3. Did you have more or less items than you thought you would have?
4. How did it make you feel when you discovered that others felt blessed for the same things as you?
5. Of all the things on your list, which is most significant for you?

Scripture
Colossians 3:17: “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him”

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Mayflower Memory

mayflower.jpgMaterials
None

Activity
1. Sits everyone down in a circle.
2. The first person says, “I am sailing on the Mayflower, and I am taking…” [The first person then says something that starts with “A” like apples.]
3. The second person says, “I am sailing on the Mayflower, and I am taking…” [The second person then repeats what the first person said
and adds something that begins with “B.”]
4. The third person must remember what the first two people said
and then adds a “C” item.
5. Continue through the alphabet. If you complete the alphabet go through a second or third time, adding a new item at each letter to those previously stated before.
6. If a player can’t remember all the items, that player drops out,
until there is one player left. Award the winner!

Variation
The first player starts by saying, “At my Thanksgiving dinner I ate turkey.” Each adds a thanksgiving food. In this variation, the items do not need to follow the alphabet.

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Thanksgiving A to Z

Materials
None

Activity
Get everyone into a thanksful spirit with this memorable activity. Using the alphabet as a guide, the first person tells everyone the things he is thankful for that start with the letter “A,” like apples and aunts. The next person uses the letter “B”. Keep going around until all the letter are used up. If people still have things to add, go a second round.

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Turkey in a Tree

turkey5.jpgMaterials
This is a high energy game adapted for the Holiday. All that is needed is an open space where kids and youth can run around.

Set-up
Have kids get in groups of three. Two of the kids hold hands so that there is an open space in the middle btween them, as a hollow tree. The remaining participant stands in the center between the arms and is the “Turkey in a tree”.

Game Play
There are three options that participants must respond to in this game:
1. If HUNTER is called, all the trees remain where they are and the turkeys must flee and duck into another tree. A tree may only contain one turkey. The last turkey to find a tree to hide in is eliminated from the game along with the tree.
2. If LIGHTNING is called, all turkeys remain in their positions and the trees must change position and partners. The last two people to position themselves holding hands around a turkey are eliminated.
3. if EARTHQUAKE is called, everyone, both turkeys and trees, must change positions and find new partners. Turkeys can become trees and vice-versa as long as there are new groups of three. As with the other options, the last group to form is eliminated.

Continue the game until there is only one one group of three remaining and give them a prize.

 

 

 

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Thanksgiving Twister

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Materials

Instead of a twister game sheet, cut Thanksgiving shapes from construction paper and use sticky-tack to adhere them to the floor. Make a twister spinner that includes right hand, left hand, right foot, left foot and another that contains the various Thanksgiving symbols.

Some optional symbols are:
Autumn Leaf, Corn, Cornucopia, Cranberries, Family, Mayflower ship, Pie, Pilgrim, Plymouth Rock, Pumpkin, Puritans, Turkey, Indian

Activity
Play a game of Twister, but instead of colored dots use pictures of Thanksgiving items taped to the floor. Change the spinner to reflect the pictures. If you don’t have a spinner you can easily make one.

Variation
Instead of playing on an individual basis, divide the group into teams. The team with the last remaining members in the game wins.

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