Thanksgiving Week Activity: Turkey Glyph

Today when I announced to my boys that we were only going to do Thanksgiving related activities this week, I don't think they had a math activity in mind! This is another activity from Mathwire.

For the turkey body, you could choose light brown for white meat and dark brown for dark meat.
James wanted both, so we made his turkey body with both light and dark brown.



Even though this is an early elementry activity, I had everyone in the family do it, so we could have more to graph.



And our vegetarian Dad just made a clutch of feathers.

You can use these to graph preferences.

On a practical level, it can help you to plan how much of each item on the menu to make. And lastly, serve as cute decorations for Thanksgiving Day.
Just as one student said, "Each of the turkeys tells a story."