A THRILLING THANKSGIVING

Do not read the story on the next page! Fill in the blanks below with the part of speech
asked for. Then, using the words you have chosen fill in the numbered blanks in the
story. Read and laugh aloud!

1.Boy’s name________
2.Girl’s name_________
3.Animal _____________
4.Noun_____________
5.Color______________
6. Adjective_______________
7. Noun__________________
8.Body part_______________
9.Body part________________
10. Same Boy’s name from #1_________________
11.Same girl’s name from # 2 _________________
12.Same animal from # 3___________________
13. Same animal from # 3___________________
14. Adjective_________________
15. Adjective_________________
16. Color_________________
17. Same animal from # 3 ________________
18. Same animal from # 3__________________
19. NEW ANIMAL__________________
20. Adjective_________________
21. Type of Food_________________
22. New animal from # 19 _________________

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Once upon a time on Thanksgiving Day, a girl named _______(1) and a boy named
______(2) were making _______(3) shaped to have for________(4). They used sugar
and ________(5) flour and milk and butter. They stirred all of the ingredients together in
a ________(6) bowl. While they were mixing the ingredients they made a
huge________(7). They were covered in flour from _______(8) to ________(9).
____________(10) spilled milk on the counter and butter on the floor and she slipped on
the butter and fell. After________(11) had mixed everything together, he had dough all
over his hands. But, the dough was ready. They rolled it flat on wax paper and cut
_________(12) out of the dough with a cookie cutter. Then they put the _________(13)
on the cookie sheet. Then they put the cookie sheet in the oven to bake. After awhile,
they took the cookies out. They were _________(14) and smelled__________(15)! They
had already made __________(16) icing to frost the cookies with by mixing food
coloring together with the icing. They took turns spreading the frosting on the
_________(17) shaped cookies. Some of the cookies had melted together in the oven.
Some had changed shape in the oven. Now the ______________(18) looked like
___________(19)! After they put the frosting on every cookie, they put the cookies on a
plate. Then they placed the cookies on the Thanksgiving Dinner table and went back into
the kitchen. When they looked at themselves and the kitchen, they saw that they were a
huge mess. Suddenly, their mom walked in and said, “what on Earth is going on here?”.
She looked very__________(20). Alice and John just grinned through the white flour
caked on their faces and said, “Surprise! We made __________!(21)” Alice and John’s
mom thought that was very nice but she could not understand what ____________(22)
had to do with Thanksgiving or dessert!

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