Turkey Time Transition Game

When it is time to transition children away from group time and into a different activity it is always good to have a transition game. This allows children to move more slowly to the next activity with less confusion.


Here is a turkey transition game for the holiday.

I made a large turkey with different color feathers.  This turkey will be placed on my flannel board in the circle area. 

Around the turkey body is different colored feathers with different action movements for the children to do.

As the children come up to play the game they roll a large cardboard box dice with color dots to match all of the feathers. A child comes up and rolls the dice identifies the color and then finds that color feather from the turkey. Once child finds the feather the teacher reads the movement that child needs to do before moving on to the next activity.



I have a class of 24 children so to make things run smoothly I have two to three dice going at the same time. I run the game and my assistant is making sure that the children are following the plan that they gave to us as to what they will be doing during say free choice time or making sure that they wash their hands for snack and find their seat.


I made the dice out of a 6 X6 mailing box.


Each feather has a Velcro sticker on it and the body of the turkey also has Velcro stickers on it.