Thanksgiving Day Parade

THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE

   This year in Hoboken, New Jersey, like the years before, the Thanksgiving Parade will take place. This parade had first started in 1924. It would take a year for everyone to work together and to put everything into place. This includes giant balloons and floats and organizing marching bands and people from Broadway. They make floats out of styrofoam and use a cutting tool called a hotwire and then they carve the rest by hand. Then the styrofoam is sprayed with hardcoat, which is a flame retardant plastic which makes a strong waterproof case. This is to keep the weather from ruining all the artwork.

    THE HISTORY OF THANKSGIVING

  The first celebration of Thanksgiving in 1621 lasted three days which was of eating, hunting, and entertainment. The Pilgrims invited some Native Americans to celebrate how the Pilgrims successfully had their first harvest. The Native Americans had killed five deer as a gift to the Pilgrims. In 1979, George Washington was the president to consider Thanksgiving to be a national holiday. This holiday didn't become an annual tradition till the nineteenth century. During the Civil War Abraham Lincoln announced Thanksgiving to be held on the final Thursday of each November.

Here is a link to a couple facts of Thanksgiving:
http://artmadness11.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-facts-did-pilgrims-have.html

Here is a link to a recipe for a Thanksgiving cake:
http://artmadness11.blogspot.com/

Here is a short video of Thanksgiving: