{"id":148,"date":"2010-11-16T06:41:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2010-11-16T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2010-11-16T11:42:18","slug":"a-turkey-for-the-usa-thanksgiving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/a-turkey-for-the-usa-thanksgiving\/","title":{"rendered":"A TURKEY FOR THE USA THANKSGIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-turkey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-152\" title=\"blog turkey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-turkey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"504\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-turkey.jpg 504w, https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/blog-turkey-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 504px) 100vw, 504px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pencil hold help and fun for young hands:<\/p>\n<p>1) Give a child or children some corn. Use candy corn or the hard corn found at this season. You could even cut up tiny bits of orange paper and pretend it\u2019s corn.<\/p>\n<p>2) Children should pick up a piece of corn, holding it between index finger and thumb. Put it down. Close the eyes and pick it up. Repeat slowly, and think about where fingers are placed.<\/p>\n<p>3) Hand out one or more turkey papers. Pick up a piece of corn. Feed corn to your turkey, placing it near his beak. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>4) The teacher or parent demonstrates a good hold for the child or children.<\/p>\n<p>5) Add some feathers to the turkey that look like the pattern below. This is a good opportunity to use the non dominant hand to turn the paper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkey-feathers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"turkey feathers\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkey-feathers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"572\" height=\"77\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkey-feathers.jpg 572w, https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blogwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/turkey-feathers-300x40.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 572px) 100vw, 572px\" \/><\/a>As children write they should chant \u201cgobble, gobble, gobble,\u201d emphasizing the first syllable; it\u2019s the downstroke! Say \u201cFreeze.\u201d If the writing tool hold is still good feed your turkey. Repeat.<\/p>\n<p>6) Trace and copy the word, \u201cturkey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>7) Switch to crayons or markers and color. Hope the good holds HOLD!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pencil hold help and fun for young hands: 1) Give a child or children some corn. Use candy corn or the hard corn found at this season. You could even cut up tiny bits of orange paper and pretend it\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/a-turkey-for-the-usa-thanksgiving\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beginners","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bfhhandwriting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}