Thanksgiving just wouldn't be the same without turkey coloring pages to use to unleash our creative impulses.
We have some turkey coloring pages clip art as well just to liven things up and give our turkey coloring pages a bit of life.
Benjamin Franklin thought that the turkey should be the national bird, and he was right, so what better way to honor our country's traditions than some nice turkey coloring pages?
Of course, most of our turkey coloring pages are of live turkeys strutting about in all their majesty, but we all know the reason why there are so many turkeys on farms.
The turkey is a large, succulent, tasty bird in the genus Meleagris, which is native only to the Americas. There were no turkeys in Europe before Christopher Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and it took until 1550, when the English navigator William Strickland introduced the turkey into England, for the children of Europe to even know there was a turkey for them to draw in on their turkey coloring pages.
Asian children did not have any turkey coloring pages until long after that, and there are not a lot of turkey coloring pages in Asia to this day. So, it is a good thing that they don't celebrate the U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving there, because then what would they eat for Thanksgiving dinner?
Turkeys are the most maligned creatures in the barnyard. They actually have been around since prehistoric times many millions of years ago, so the cavemen children could have drawn in turkey coloring pages if they had had, well, paper and crayons. They were around at least as early as the Early Miocene period 23 million years ago. That's a long time!
The extinct genera Rhegminornis and Proagriocharis were floating around the United States back then - only there wasn't any United States and no little children to color in their turkey coloring pages.
So, the turkey is a noble bird that has been around a lot longer than people have by many millions of years. All the more reason for us to celebrate Thanksgiving by coloring in some nice turkey coloring pages. Enjoy!
We also have Thanksgiving coloring pages that are different than these coloring sketches and lots of fun!
We also have Thanksgiving coloring pages that are different than these coloring sketches and lots of fun!
2020
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