Thanksgiving for Kids - By CrashCourse
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| 00:05 | Mhm . Welcome to this thanksgiving video for kids . | |
| 00:09 | But to be honest anyone could enjoy this . You | |
| 00:12 | know , I see you watching . All right , | |
| 00:14 | this is gonna be a great video . Gonna share | |
| 00:16 | some really cool things with you . All right ? | |
| 00:20 | You are going to learn things you'll want to share | |
| 00:23 | with others and they'll be like , wow , how | |
| 00:25 | do you know so much about thanksgiving ? So if | |
| 00:31 | you're ready , let's take a serious look at this | |
| 00:33 | awesome holiday . It's a fun Durkee . Okay , | |
| 00:41 | so what is thanksgiving ? That's a great place to | |
| 00:44 | start . What is thanksgiving ? Yeah . Well thanksgiving | |
| 00:51 | is a special holiday that is celebrated in the United | |
| 00:54 | States Canada Liberia and in some of the Caribbean islands | |
| 01:02 | . Let's look at these places on the world map | |
| 01:05 | . Canada is right here and south of Canada , | |
| 01:08 | the United States of America . Then over here the | |
| 01:13 | Caribbean islands and then in West Africa , the country | |
| 01:17 | of Liberia . All of these places celebrate thanksgiving . | |
| 01:24 | Mhm . What's interesting is these places don't celebrate thanksgiving | |
| 01:29 | on the same day . Yeah . Yeah For example | |
| 01:34 | , Thanksgiving is celebrated in Canada on the second Monday | |
| 01:38 | in October it's true in Liberia , Thanksgiving is celebrated | |
| 01:43 | the first Thursday in November and in the United States | |
| 01:47 | Thanksgiving is celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November . | |
| 01:56 | Here's the thing . While traditions can vary all thanksgiving | |
| 02:00 | celebrations have certain things in common regardless of where they | |
| 02:05 | happen in the world , there are certain things that | |
| 02:08 | make a thanksgiving celebration while thanksgiving celebration for example , | |
| 02:17 | thanksgiving is a time to be thankful for all of | |
| 02:20 | the blessings from the past year . Without that it's | |
| 02:24 | not a thanksgiving celebration . No matter where it's celebrated | |
| 02:28 | in the world , thanksgiving is a time to be | |
| 02:31 | thankful and we have so much to be thankful for | |
| 02:36 | regardless of where it's celebrated . Thanksgiving is also a | |
| 02:40 | time for family and loved ones and friends and those | |
| 02:44 | that we care about , which makes sense because thanksgiving | |
| 02:47 | is all about being thankful for the blessings of the | |
| 02:50 | past year and you want to celebrate and be thankful | |
| 02:54 | with those who mean the most to you . Mhm | |
| 02:59 | . And of course food , you know , you | |
| 03:01 | can't celebrate thanksgiving without a wonderful feast and you don't | |
| 03:04 | eat this . Okay , what do you eat on | |
| 03:06 | thanksgiving ? Yeah . In Canada . And in the | |
| 03:12 | United States you typically have a turkey for thanksgiving . | |
| 03:16 | A turkey dinner is the tradition for most people who | |
| 03:20 | celebrate thanksgiving in the United States and Canada . That | |
| 03:24 | isn't the case everywhere though in Liberia for example , | |
| 03:28 | instead of eating turkey for thanksgiving chicken is the center | |
| 03:32 | of their thanksgiving feast . Yeah , this adds up | |
| 03:39 | to a lot of food . Take the United States | |
| 03:41 | for example . Yeah . Yeah , believe it or | |
| 03:45 | not , 46 million turkeys are eaten on thanksgiving every | |
| 03:50 | year . In the United States , wow ! 46 | |
| 03:54 | million turkeys and check this out , about 50 million | |
| 04:02 | pumpkin pies are eaten every year for thanksgiving . In | |
| 04:06 | the United States , about 50 million pumpkin pies , | |
| 04:12 | wow , mm . Of course there is cranberry sauce | |
| 04:17 | and stuffing and sweet potatoes and the casseroles . There | |
| 04:21 | are so many delicious foods we eat on thanksgiving . | |
| 04:25 | Hey , what is your favorite part of the thanksgiving | |
| 04:29 | meal comment below ? We would love to hear what | |
| 04:32 | you enjoy eating most on thanksgiving . That was fun | |
| 04:40 | . But where did this all begin ? Yeah , | |
| 04:45 | Well , interestingly enough in England , during the days | |
| 04:49 | of King Henry the Eighth , it was common for | |
| 04:51 | the people to have days of giving thanks . In | |
| 04:55 | fact they would call them days of thanksgiving . Yeah | |
| 05:02 | . Then there was this guy named martin frobisher . | |
| 05:06 | He was an english explorer who explored Canada . Just | |
| 05:12 | 31 years after King Henry the Eighth rain . In | |
| 05:17 | 15 78 martin frobisher held a day of thanksgiving in | |
| 05:22 | Canada . They were celebrating their arrival in Newfoundland . | |
| 05:26 | You can see him pictured here , Martin frobisher was | |
| 05:30 | from Britain and would have been familiar with the days | |
| 05:33 | of giving thanks . That happened during King Henry the | |
| 05:37 | Eighths Ring . They were grateful that they arrived in | |
| 05:40 | Newfoundland safely and enjoyed a beef dinner with a side | |
| 05:45 | of peace . Mm Tasty . Another group familiar with | |
| 05:52 | these days of thanksgiving were the pilgrims , a group | |
| 05:55 | of english settlers that came to America for religious freedom | |
| 06:00 | . They had different religious beliefs than many people in | |
| 06:04 | England and didn't want to be a part of the | |
| 06:06 | state church of England . Yeah , in a ship | |
| 06:12 | called the Mayflower , the pilgrims made their way across | |
| 06:15 | the atlantic ocean and arrived in present day massachusetts in | |
| 06:20 | a place called Plymouth . This colony became known as | |
| 06:25 | the Plymouth colony . Here's the thing , life was | |
| 06:31 | difficult at Plymouth and it wasn't until a native american | |
| 06:35 | named squanto helped them that they finally had their first | |
| 06:39 | successful harvest , their first successful harvest . So in | |
| 06:47 | celebration of this first successful harvest in 1621 , the | |
| 06:52 | pilgrims invited the Wampanoag people , including squanto and their | |
| 06:57 | leader named Massasoit , to celebrate a day of thanksgiving | |
| 07:02 | . The celebration lasted three days . We know they | |
| 07:06 | did a lot of eating , but what did they | |
| 07:09 | eat ? Well , the governor of the Plymouth colony | |
| 07:12 | named William Bradford , wrote that they ate birds and | |
| 07:16 | deer during the feast , and we know from his | |
| 07:19 | writings that they hunted for turkey . Could turkey have | |
| 07:22 | been one of those birds they ate during the thanksgiving | |
| 07:25 | feast ? There's a big chance , but to be | |
| 07:27 | honest , we don't know for sure What is interesting | |
| 07:34 | about the Thanksgiving celebration in 1621 is that it brought | |
| 07:39 | together the traditions of the days of giving thanks during | |
| 07:42 | the years of King Henry VIII and harvest festivals which | |
| 07:46 | were festivals celebrating a successful harvest . The two traditions | |
| 07:51 | were combined that day . You see long before the | |
| 07:57 | pilgrims or martin frobisher or King Henry the eighth native | |
| 08:01 | americans celebrated harvests . They would come together with loved | |
| 08:05 | ones , enjoy good food in gratitude and thankfulness for | |
| 08:09 | all of the wonderful things that were going on . | |
| 08:16 | Thanksgiving is special because we all need to be thankful | |
| 08:20 | , celebrating with family and friends with good food and | |
| 08:24 | thankful Hearts is an incredible tradition , wow ! Thanksgiving | |
| 08:31 | . We really appreciate you watching this video , learning | |
| 08:34 | about this really cool holiday . Don't forget to comment | |
| 08:38 | below , let us know what is your favorite food | |
| 08:42 | to eat on thanksgiving . We are so thankful , | |
| 08:50 | I get it that you watched our thanksgiving video and | |
| 08:53 | we do look forward to seeing what your favorite thanksgiving | |
| 08:57 | food is . Okay because it's all , that's all | |
| 09:00 | God cranberry sauce . You know , maybe you're one | |
| 09:04 | of the people that are going to eat one of | |
| 09:05 | the 50 million pumpkin pies or one of the people | |
| 09:09 | that one of the 46 million turkeys , You know | |
| 09:14 | , who knows ? You know , that crazy . | |
| 09:17 | I could just , you could just go swimming in | |
| 09:19 | that gravy . It's so good . You could just | |
| 09:22 | gravy swimming pool , you know , just just go | |
| 09:26 | swimming . Just go , just go swimming . Hey | |
| 09:35 | , okay . We have to let you in on | |
| 09:37 | a secret . We actually made a video that's completely | |
| 09:41 | about turkey's okay . And you'll be able to see | |
| 09:44 | . It's gonna pop up . You can click that | |
| 09:46 | video and learn all about turkeys . And if you | |
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| 09:56 | that the fund can just keep going and going and | |
| 09:59 | going and going . But we'll see you on the | |
| 10:00 | Turkey video . Okay ? |
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