Flying Turkeys - Thanksgiving STEM Activity
Updated: December 27, 2024
Type: Seasonal/Holiday STEM Activity
Grade Level: K - 12
Your kids are probably used to writing down what they are thankful for during this season, but have they ever made their thankful creations fly? Using our free turkey template, our kids colored their turkeys and wrote 6 things they are thankful for this year. Then we cut out the turkeys and tape them to a short segment of a large diameter straw (or rolled-up paper) with one end taped closed. They then used a regular drinking straw to put inside the bigger straw taped to the turkey and blow to make their turkeys fly!
Bend the feathers or turkey body to see if you can make your turkey fly higher or farther! Talk about drag forces and the effects of gravity on the flying turkeys.
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