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13 Thanksgiving Jokes for Kids (Clean and Funny)
Clean Thanksgiving jokes for kids about turkeys, pie, corn, and gravy - kind enough for the kids' table and quick to tell between helpings.
What makes these jokes work
Thanksgiving is the one holiday built around a long meal, which makes it the best day of the year for jokes. There is a table full of people, a gap between courses, and a kids' table that needs something to do while the grown-ups talk.
The jokes that work best are about what is already on the table: corn, gravy, pie, and mashed potatoes, plus a turkey or two from the parade. A child can point at the thing the joke is about, which helps the youngest ones follow along.
Every joke here is friendly. The turkeys dance, giggle, and dress up for Halloween, and none of them end up on a plate, so the page suits a table where a younger child might take a joke literally.
How to tell them
- Write one joke on each place card. Guests read theirs out as they sit down, and the meal starts with a laugh.
- Save a corn joke for the moment the corn gets passed - the timing does half the work.
- "Peas pass the mashed potatoes" is the ideal first knock knock joke for a small child, because the answer is a polite request they already know.
- Give each child one joke to tell during dessert rather than reading out a list.
Easy Thanksgiving jokes for ages 4-6
Short setups and instant punchlines, so a preschooler or kindergartener can remember the whole Thanksgiving joke after hearing it once.
What dance do turkeys do at Thanksgiving?
Reveal the punchline!
Answer: The gobble wobble!
Why is corn the best listener at Thanksgiving dinner?
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Answer: Because it's all ears!
How does the gravy get across the Thanksgiving table?
Reveal the punchline!
Answer: On a gravy boat!
Why did the napkin get sleepy after Thanksgiving dinner?
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Answer: It was ready for a nap!
What did the pumpkin pie say to the hungry guests?
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Answer: Slice to meet you!
Why did the turkey giggle all the way through the parade?
Reveal the punchline!
Answer: Someone kept tickling its funny feather!
Why does the ear of corn get invited to every Thanksgiving party?
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Answer: It tells the corniest jokes!
Knock knock! Who's there? Yam.
Reveal the punchline!
Joke teller: Knock knock!
Listener: Who's there?
Joke teller: Yam.
Listener: Yam who?
Joke teller: Yam so glad you came for Thanksgiving!
Knock knock! Who's there? Peas.
Reveal the punchline!
Joke teller: Knock knock!
Listener: Who's there?
Joke teller: Peas.
Listener: Peas who?
Joke teller: Peas pass the mashed potatoes!
Thanksgiving jokes for ages 7-9
A little more wordplay. These suit confident readers who have started noticing that words can mean two things at once.
Why were the mashed potatoes the star of Thanksgiving dinner?
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Answer: Because they were a smash hit!
What does a turkey dress up as for Halloween?
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Answer: A gobble-in!
Why is the cranberry sauce so confident?
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Answer: It believes it cran do anything!
Cleverer Thanksgiving jokes for ages 10-12
Puns and misdirection that reward a bit of thinking - good for tweens who claim they are too old for jokes.
Why did the leaf go to the Thanksgiving parade?
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Answer: It wanted to fall in line!
Common questions
What is a good Thanksgiving joke for kids?
"How does the gravy get across the Thanksgiving table? On a gravy boat!" works for almost any age, because the answer is a real thing on the table and a funny picture at the same time.
Are these Thanksgiving jokes suitable for young children?
Yes. They are short, clean, and kind, and none of them are about a turkey being eaten. Most use words a four or five year old already knows, like corn, pie, and gravy.
How can I use these jokes at Thanksgiving dinner?
Put one on each place card, tuck a few into folded napkins, or print a set of cards from the print page for the kids' table to read out between courses.
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