Thanksgiving Writing Activity - Turkey Toss Collaborative Story Writing Activity
This Thanksgiving writing activity gives your students a fun and collaborative way to practice narrative writing while working through a creative turkey-themed twist. The turkey toss method brings collaboration, movement, and creativity together as students build a narrative inspired by visual prompts as a team. Students will begin a narrative, crumple their paper into a "turkey," and toss it to the front of the room to be retrieved and continued by the next writer! The interactive “turkey toss” format keeps the energy high and encourages students to focus on setting, character development, plot, and conflict as they work together. With clear teacher instructions and 30 ready-to-use worksheets, you’ll have everything you need to facilitate a creative Thanksgiving writing activity with a fun, festive twist! Tt is always a memorable favorite your students will ask to do again!
How This Turkey Toss Thanksgiving Writing Activity Works:
- Distribute 30 pre-made worksheets, each featuring a different Thanksgiving-inspired visual story starter, to each student. Instruct them to start writing their own narratives based on these prompts.
- After a predetermined amount of time, instruct the first writer to crumple their story sheet into a "turkey" and throw it to the front of the room.
- Encourage all students to gather at the front and select one of these "pumpkin" stories to continue writing from where the previous writer left off.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 twice more, introducing further creative twists to the narratives.
- Eventually, return the stories to their original authors. Instruct the students to engage in the essential steps of editing, revising, and crafting a final copy of their narratives!
Students always have so much fun with this, and they usually can't believe you are letting them crumple up their stories! Try printing the assignment a brown pages to make them look more like turkeys when crumpled!
Included in This Thanksgiving Writing Activity:
➡️ Thanksgiving Writing Activity Turkey TossTeacher Instructions: These step-by-step directions walk you through exactly how to set up and facilitate the turkey toss Thanksgiving writing activity. Clear timing, management, and setup notes help you run this Thanksgiving writing activity smoothly from start to finish.
➡️ 30 Turkey Toss Thanksgiving Writing Worksheets: Each worksheet includes space for each of the three writers along with a Thanksgiving-themed visual story starter. Students will introduce the setting and characters, expand the plot and conflict, and bring the story to a satisfying conclusion. With plenty of writing space and a consistent structure, these double-sided Thanksgiving writing assignment sheets make it easy for students to rotate roles and build a complete Thanksgiving narrative draft that returns to its original author for revision.
Like this resource? Check out our other popular Thanksgiving resources
- Who Stole the Pumpkin Pie Mystery
- Thanksgiving Figurative Language
- Save the Turkey Persuasive Writing
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