Animal Costumes for kids are not just for Halloween. Your kids will love turkey costumes for kids for Thanksgiving this year. Your infant can be a poult (this is a baby turkey, also called a chick) and you could dress up in a pilgrim costume.
A baby turkey costume would be great. For the older kids a Pilgrim Costume might be the perfect choice for Thanksgiving.
Or if you child wants to be a turkey like his little brother or sister this would be a darling combination on Thanksgiving Day.
Now that we have our turkey costumes for kids picked out here are some…
Fun Facts about Turkeys:
The turkey is one of the most famous birds in North America. Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey, not the Bald Eagle, the national bird of the United States!
The favorite foods for wild turkeys are acorns, seeds, small insects and wild berries.
What is the brightly colored growth around the turkey throat called? The Caruncle
What is the flap of skin that hangs over the turkey’s beak called? The Snood- this turn bright red when the turkey is upset or during courtship
What is the flap of skin under the turkey’s chin? Wattle
Female turkeys can incubate as many as 18 eggs at a time. It takes about a month for the baby turkeys, chicks or poults, to hatch
Fun Facts about Thanksgiving:
The First Thanksgiving is traditionally known as the feast between the Pilgrims and the Wamapanoag Indians in 1621.
Thanksgiving was made an official holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
Fun Facts about the Turkey Pardon by the President of the United States:
The tradition of the presidential turkey pardon began in the 1940s with President Truman. However, the first official pardoning of the turkey is credited to President George H.W. Bush in 1989.
Today the turkeys that are pardoned are flown to Disneyland in California where they are the honorary grand marshals for Disneyland’s Thanksgiving Day parade. After that, they spend the rest of their lives at a Disneyland ranch.
One thing that is very special about the pardoned turkeys is before they are picked to be the most special turkey on Thanksgiving Day they need to be trained to be around a lot of people and noise. There are students that spend an hour a day with the birds to make sure they will be okay in a crowd. These kids play music, talk, clap and pet them so the turkeys will be calm. The turkeys need to be easily picked up and put on a table without flapping their wings or acting scared so they can have many, many pictures taken of them.