Origami Turkey 

Join us on today's adventure! Help our little geniuses get in the Thanksgiving spirit by making this intermediate origami turkey.

While various countries have holidays to celebrate the changing seasons and being thankful for the fall harvest, the Thanksgiving holiday is often associated with Canada and America.

Older than their American counterpart, Canadian thanksgiving, which falls on the second Monday of October, is believed to have been first held in 1578 based on traditional European holidays celebrating the harvest.

More internationally known, the American thanksgiving, celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November, was celebrated by early settlers as early as 1621, and officially declared a national holiday by Abraham Lincoln in 1861.

Whether turkey was served during those original thanksgiving festivities is unknown, published journals, such as those from American William Bradford, made mention of hunting for wild turkey, as well as author Edward Winslow, who made mention of ‘wild fowl’ during the first American thanksgiving, which may have meant turkey.

Regardless, over the years turkey has become synonymous with Thanksgiving as can feed a large group, traditionally wasn’t used for daily necessities such as milk from cows or eggs from chickens, and was less common compared to pork, thus representing something to be served for special occasions.

In popular culture, turkey served for special occasions was emphasised in Charles Dickens’ a Christmas Carol in 1843, when Scrooge sent a Christmas turkey to the Cratchit family.

This origami turkey is a great way to celebrate the festive season.

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