Thanksgiving words

Twenty-four Thanksgiving words for the table and the classroom: turkey and stuffing, cranberry sauce and pecan pie, the parade, the wishbone and the harvest. A Clue Bingo round keeps kids busy while dinner finishes, and Quiz Night works for the whole family afterwards.

Games with this list

• Clue Bingo
• Match Up
• Summit Scramble
• I Have, Who Has?
• Talk Around It
• Act, Draw or Say
• Claim the Grid
• Quiz Night

The list

	Clue	Answer
1	The big bird at the center of the table	Turkey
2	An orange pie with a spiced filling	Pumpkin pie
3	A tart red side dish	Cranberry sauce
4	A bread mix sometimes cooked inside the bird	Stuffing
5	Fluffy potatoes served with gravy	Mashed potatoes
6	A sauce made from meat juices	Gravy
7	A horn of plenty filled with fruit and vegetables	Cornucopia
8	Gathering crops in the fall	Harvest
9	Giant balloons float down the street	Parade
10	A game many families watch that day	Football
11	They change color and fall from trees	Leaves
12	The feeling of being thankful	Gratitude
13	A big meal with lots of food	Feast
14	Two people pull it to make a wish	Wishbone
15	The nut of an oak tree	Acorn
16	A crop with kernels on a cob	Corn
17	A hard-skinned vegetable, like butternut	Squash
18	A warm drink made from apples	Apple cider
19	A sweet pie made with nuts	Pecan pie
20	Orange root vegetables, sometimes topped with marshmallows	Sweet potatoes
21	Small round breads	Rolls
22	Stands in a field to keep birds away	Scarecrow
23	Settlers who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620	Pilgrims
24	The month of American Thanksgiving	November

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