General Thanksgiving Sites

• Facts for Features: Thanksgiving — How many pounds of cranberries and sweet potatoes do we eat? How many places named “Turkey” are there in the United States? Check this statistical guide to the holiday to learn the answers to these and other statistical questions.
• Thanksgiving on the Net — Music, graphics and information for Thanksgiving
• Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade — Learn more about New York’s annual Thanksgiving tradition
• Thanksgiving Day — Holiday history, turkey trivia, and Thanksgiving fun from InfoPlease
• Best-Ever Thanksgiving — Crafts, recipes and other ideas from FamilyFun

Thanksgiving History

• The Plymouth Colony Archive Project at the University of Virginia — “This Plymouth Colony Archive presents a collection of fully searchable texts, including: court records, colony laws, seventeenth century journals and memoirs, probate inventories, wills, town plans, maps, and fort plans; research and seminar analyses of numerous topics; biographical profiles of selected colonists; and architectural, archaeological and material culture studies.”
• Thanksgiving — The official website for Plimouth Plantation has a great collection of information on the the history of Thanksgiving, including a feature called You are the Historian: Investigating the First Thanksgiving
• The First Thanksgiving — Come aboard the Mayflower and meet the passengers, experience life in Plimouth colony, and take the Thanksgiving cyber challenge at this site from Scholastic.com

Thanksgiving Reading and Activities

• Thanksgiving Crafts, Decorations, and Printouts — Easy ideas for kids from the Enchanted Learning website
• Thanksgiving Turkey — Pattern for making a folded paper turkey
• Thanksgiving Crafts — Coloring pages, placecards, and other printables from Better Homes and Gardens
• How To Capture Thanksgiving With Your Camera — Ideas and information from the New York Institute of Photography.

Thanksgiving Food and Recipes

• Thanksgiving Dinner Recipes — Eye-appealing, kid-friendly food ideas from the FamilyFun website
• Thanksgiving Recipes, Menus and Videos — Lots of great ideas from Epicurious.com
• Thanksgiving — Thanksgiving recipes from the Food Network with contributions from Alton Brown, Paula Deen and others
• Thanksgiving Recipes — Ideas from the TasteOfHome website
• Thanksgiving Recipes — A great collection of all kinds of Thanksgiving recipes
• Butterball Online — Turkey tips and other recipes and Thanksgiving ideas.
• Honeysuckle White — Turkey tips and other recipes and Thanksgiving ideas.
• Vegetarian Thanksgiving– Alternatives to the traditional turkey
• Vegan/Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes — A collection of recipes from VegWeb