Readers may not realize it, but children have pretty definite ideas on "how to cook a turkey." The Journal sponsored a contest asking children in kindergarten through fifth grade to describe how the Thanksgiving main course should be prepared.

Here are some of the entries. Ten entries won a free turkey compliments of Dan's Valley Market. Everyone who enters is eligible to win a $50 gift certificate from Toys R Us.

1. Hont a trky.

2. Poot the trky in the pan

3. Bak it in the avin

4. Etit.

Peyton, age 5

Zion Lutheran School

First you shoot it, then you take the skin off, and then you let it sit in the sink for a half hour, and then you cook it for probably a half an hour. You make the temperature kind of hot. Then you eat it.

Caleb, age 6

Custer

Wash it

Stuff it

Bake it

Eat it

Karson, kindergarten

Wilson Elementary

You put seasoning on it and then you put it in the stove, then we eat it for dinner.

Tessa, age 4

Box Elder

Put it in the oven at 1000 degrees for six minutes so it doesn't burn. Then you season it and eat it.

Troy, age 6

Badger Clark Elementary

First: You need to wash your turkey with warm water.

Second: You put your turkey in a pan with salt, peper, and garlice. (sic)

Then: You bake it to 305 degrees to about 30 min.

Last: You serve it with your mom's mash potatoes and green beens.

Lauren, third grade

Rapid City

1. Help your dad go shoot a turkey in the Hills.

2. Take the feathers and the head off.

3. Put the turkey in the sink.

4. Put ground red pepper on the turkey.

5. Put the turkey in 350 degree oven for 30 min.

6. Cut the turkey up.

7. Put the turkey on a plate.

8. Enjoy.

Josh, second grade

Grandview Elementary

First you buy the turkey at the grocery store. Put the turkey in the oven. Spray it with some special spray and then you put it on a tray. Then you put it on the stove and cook it.

Nicole, age 6

Rapid City

Roll out the parts with a rolling pin in the air. Flip it in the air and make a big circle with your fingers. And remember, you make the head. And there is one little hair.

Steven, age 3

Rapid City

You go get a turkey and kill it.

Then you cut off his legs and cut off his head and his arms. You wash it. Drain all the blood. Cook it for 5 minutes at 9 degrees. Then you eat it.

Madison, first grade

Belle Fourche

Hunt for your turkey in the wild. You shoot it with a gun. Take it home and cut the feathers off. Bake it at 100 degrees for 100 minutes. Eat the turkey.

Abby, age 5

Rapid City

Put it in a pan. Cook it for 100 minutes. Get it out of the stove and eat the turkey.

Kyler Kelly, Age 7

Rapid City

1. Take the rapper off and put the turkey in the oven.

2. Cook it for four hours at 350 degrees.

3. Take it out of the oven.

4. Wait for it to cool off.

5. Then put salt on it and put it on a plate and eat it.

Brett

Crazy Horse School

First I buy the turkey and then I go home and put it in the oven for a minit and a half and then I take it out and go to the store and buy Butterballs and go home and take out the turkey and put the Butterballs on top of it and put it in the refrigerator and eat it.

Kiowa, second grade

Crazy Horse School

My dad goes hunting for the turkey. We take it to my grandpa and grandma's house. Grandma and mom poke a thermometer in to the turkey to see how hot it gets in the oven. I think it takes 10 minutes to bake it right.

Carter, Kindergarten

Zion Lutheran School

My dad has a TV cooker. You put the turkey in and set it to 20 degrees.

Kaden, first grade

Black Hawk Elementary

I bought a turkey at wallmart and I cook it on 4 hours and me and my family ate the hole thing.

Gareth

Crazy Horse School

Ingredients: turkey, seasoning, water, stuffing, knife, cutting board.

Directions: Get the turkey out. Put the turkey on the cutting board. Cut a big hole in the turkey. Then clean the guts out. Then put water in the hole. Make sure all the stuff is out. Put the stuffing in the turkey. Sprinkle a little bit of the seasoning. Then put the turkey in the oven. The temperature is 360 degrees. The time is 5 to 10 mins. After that, eat. "Deleacias!"

Chloe

Corral Drive Elementary

Ingredients: turkey, 3 carrots, 5 broccoli.

First, you get a turkey. Second, you wash the turkey off. Third, you chop your carrots and broccoli. Then you cut the turkeys belly open and put the carrots and broccoli inside the turkey then put the turkey in the oven to cook for 30 min. at 350 degrees F. Take it out then walla! There you have it- cooked turkey! Enjoy!

Caitlin

Corral Drive Elementary

I bought a turkey and I cook it and I cut it and I need dressing, stuffing, salt, butter and I put it to 350 degrees and it will be tastey. And I went to go to my family dinner and I went to my grandma's house and I put it in the oven.

Alana

Crazy Horse School

Go to the store and get a big turkey. Bring it home, wash it, put butter on it, and put it in the hot oven for 10 minutes, When the oven goes "ding, ding, ding," you take out the turkey and put it on a plate. Then put it on the table and add salt. Everybody sings songs and says prayers. Then dig in with spoons and forks.

Landon, age 5

Friendship Preschool

First we pick a turkey from the store. We give the man money. We take it out, put it in the oven and grill it for one minute and pop it out and we put butter on it and we can eat a turkey.

Riley, age 5

St. Elizabeth Seton Preschool

Mix it, then cook it, then put it in the oven, then kill it, then eat it.

Clarita, Age 4

Rapid City

I think how to cook a turkey is like this: first find a turkey. Then shoot it. And then bring it home. Then I think put a little garlic on the turkey. Then put in a temperature that tells how hot it is and cook it for 20 minutes and take it out of the oven and eat it.

Tyler, Age 7

St. Elizabeth Seton

You hunt a turkey, then you clean it out, then you cook it. Then you eat it. The end.

Austin, age 8

Put it in the oven. You put salt and pepper once it gets done. It is very tasty.

Adrianna, age 6

Meadowbrook Elementary

In a pan. In a stove. Then take it out and it is very hot. Turkey is healthy.

Ava, age 4

Rapid City

Simple steps to a turkey sundae

We take the tinfoil off and we put it on a stove. We add some spice and we turn the stove on. We check the turkey every minute and when you hear the stove "ding" that means it is done. You might want ketchup on it. You can put sprinkles on it to make it like a cake and you can put frosting on it too. You can put rice and use salt and pepper. If you want, you can use all kinds of other things.

Kayla, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

First: Thaw the turkey out for a half an hour. Second: Spray the pan with olive oil or something else. Third: Put the turkey on the pan in the oven for an hour. Fourth: Wait for ten minutes or lower get a cooking brush and with the brush get brush wet and soak the turkey. Fifth: Keep soaking the turkey. When done get turkey out and enjoy.

Emery

Knollwood

You biye a trky at the stor or you kil a trky and you spray the pan and kook the trky and you kut it up and eat it for Thaks Giving.

Bailey, age 7

Second grade

1. Buy a turkey.

2. Add onion spice and pepper

3. Put the turkey in the oven

4. Set the table and get the cutting knife.

5. Cut the turkey.

6. Eat the turkey!

Summer

Knollwood Elementary

I put ice cream in my turkey. It tastes good and the frosting on too. You should try it sometime. It is great and tasty! Try it this Thanksgiving but first, thaw it and get the blood out. Cook it in the oven. Cut it open to take the bones out and the last step, put taste on it.

David

Knollwood Elementary

I went hunting for a turkey. I shot one and I cut it up and pealed the skin off and put it in a roaster. I left him in there for 350 and took him out. We ate him for Thanksgiving. We put salt and peper on it to give it more tastey. After that we gave the bones to a dog.

Kylie

Crazy Horse School

1. First you get your slimy turkey.

2. Then stick it in hot water and let it thaw out for half an hour.

3. Then get a pan.

4. Clean the turkey.

5. Spray the pan with oil.

6. Put the turkey in the pan.

7. Put the turkey in the oven for 15 minutes. If not done put back in for 15 more minutes.

Enjoy the turkey.

Brittany

Knollwood Elementary

1. First let it defrost.

2. Drain all the blood out of the turkey.

3. Thenn stuff it with a cup of hot sauce.

4. Put it in the oven. Then put it to 200 degrees for all day.

5. When it's done you can butter it or season it.

Benjamin

Knollwood Elementary

Out in the country my grandpa Ed has a lot of turkey. We have a lot and me and my family go out and stabbed two turkeys. I cook the turkey. My family's secret recipe is garlic salt, hot pepper juice and we put butter in it and all the seasoning at all the stores. That's all.

Brianna

Crazy Horse School

I was driving and I hit it and I got home and I put it in the oven and the temperature was 350. And my family ate it.

Dylan

Crazy Horse School

Pluck the turkey

Step 1 Now you biy the turkey. Then you unrap it. Then wash it out.

Step 2 After washing it, you get all the hearts, necks and stuff.

Step 3 You take little pieces of turkey in a baggy for a little bit. Then you put it in the oven for about 3 hours, then you put it in pieces.

Step 4 Take the little pieces of turkey and make gravey. Then put the little pieces of turkey in the gravey.

Step 5 Make some stuffing to go with it all then some wine, sparkle, and soup and potatoes.

Step 6 Get the candle lights growen, get the beans out and cook and strawberrys with choclate and shut off the light and have a romantic honeymoon.

And now you are done.

Alisha, third grade

Valley View Elementary

Ingredients: 1 egg, diced garlic, peper, turkey and pan*

1. Crack egg in turkey size bowl. Add garlic, pinch of peper, and put turkey in bowl. Let it marinate for 1 hour* 2. Take turkey out of the bowl. Put the turkey on the pan. Put it in the oven at 30 degrees for 2 hours* 3. Take it out and … ENJOY!

Alyssa, third grade

Horace Mann Elementary

Step one. Get out the stuff you don't want. Step two. Set the temperature to 20.1 F. Step three. Put the turkey in a pot. Step four. Put the turkey in the oven for 2 hours. Step five. Put the stuff you want with it like: baket potatoes, sneakerdodle, Jello, banana and strawberry Jello, carrits, and my grandpa gets a plate of animal gessards. Step six. Take the turkey out of the oven. Finally, you get to eat.

Stephanie, third grade

Valley View Elementary

Step 1. Decorate the turkey with make up. Step 2. Put candy in it. Step 3. Split nuts. Step 4. Take the heart and squish it. Step 5. Put the turkey in the oven. Step 6. Set the oven 1-24 hours. Step 7. Take the turkey out and last but not least eat it.

Brie, third grade

Valley View Elementary

First, you clean it out and then let it sit. And then, let it boil for 35 minutes and then cook it for 80 minutes. Always put barbecue sauce on it.

Scott, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

Step 1. Deep fat fry for 1 hour. Temperature 130 degrees. Step 2. Put seasoning in the wings. Step 3. Sprinkle pepper and salt on it. Finally a good fat turkey. Mmmm. Good turkey.

Chaunce, third grade

Valley View Elementary

First you pour hot water on the turkey. Then you check the turkey thermometer. Then you put the turkey in the oven. Then you put the turkey in the oven for a couple hours. Then you eat it. O don't forget to wash the turkey before you do number two.

Dalando, third grade

Valley View Elementary

I shoot a turkey. My dad cook it with a flame thrower.

Ethan, first grade

Wilson Elementary

1. Pik the feathrs off. 2. Kleen out the turkey. 3. Cleen your turkey. 4. Take your turkey and put it in the mikerwavor the oven. 5. Cut it up and put it in the freezr or the frig. 6. Put it on your plate and eete it up.

Madison, first grade

Wilson Park Elementary

I would make it into a sandwich with cheese and some bread.

Jaiden, kindergarten

Black Hawk Elementary

First you take it out of the package. Read the directions. Take the bones out. Then, you put the turkey in the pan. After that, you put the pan on the stove and cook it for 20 minuets. Then, when you are done and the turkey is ready to come out of the stove you have a feast.

Madison, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

1. You shoot the turkey.

2. You take the feathers off.

3. You take the haret and guts

4. You put it in the aven

5. You eat it.

Abby, first grade

Wilson Elementary

First, my mom puts the stuffing in. Next, she puts the turkey in the oven. When it's done after 30 seconds, she cuts some of the parts off and then we eat!

Alex, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

Go buy a turkey or go hunting for one. Go back to your house and take off the package or gut it. Put it in the oeven and cook it for one hour and 49 minuets. Cut it open and put it on a big plate and have a great Thanksgiving Day while eating.

Kyler, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

Cook it in a roaster.

1. Put the turkey in the roaster

2. Put the roaster on 300.

3. Put a stake with a red button.

4. When the red button pops out.

5. Take the turkey out

6. Pluck the little quils out.

Tobey

Horace Mann Elementary

Step 1 You buy a turkey.

Step 2 You get a pan.

Step 3 You put it on the pan

Step 4 You put stuffing in it.

Step 5 You put the stove on 99 degrees Fahrenheit

Step 6 You let it cook for 8 hours

Step 7 You take it out and let it cool off for 5 to 10 minutes.

Step 8 You get it ready by cutting it so you can eat.

Step 9. You put it on a plate

Step 10 You dig in!

Yeah! MMM! Good! Cool!

Lane

Francis Case Elementary

To roast a turkey you have to:

1. Take the turkey out of its package.

2. Put the turkey in a pan

3. Set the oven to about 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. Put the pan with the turkey in an oven.

5. Let the turkey sit for a while.

6. Stick a thermometer in the turkey and see how warm it is.

7. If it isn't warm enough let it bake a little longer.

8. Put some spices on it.

9. Check the turkey again. If it isn't warm enough let it warm up a little longer.

10. Take the turkey out of the oven and let it cool

11. Sprinkle some more spices on it.

12. Lastly, serve the turkey and eat it!

Winter

Francis Case Elementary

I would put it in the oven and then I would turn the oven on and open the door.

Aaron, kindergarten

Black Hawk Elementary

I would cook it so fasat and get something to drink and buy some juice.

Sulayman, kindergarten

Black Hawk Elementary

First, take it out. Second, read the directions. Third, you read how long you have to leave it in the microwave. Fourth, you wait until it beeps. Fifth, if Mom is upstairs, tell her it is time.

Avery, third grade

Francis Case Elementary

I would put it in the oven and turn it on high.

Breyden, kindergarten

Black Hawk Elementary

I would take 2 turkeys and put them in the stove with a spatula.

Shaw, kindergarten

Black Hawk Elementary

Try to find a turkey. Then you kill the turkey. Then you take off the feathers. Then you put it in the refrigerator. Then you take it out. Then you put it in the oven for 120 minutes. Then you take it out. Then you put paprika on it. Then you put it on the table. Then you eat it.

Jacee, third grade

Horace Mann Elementary

1. Go hunt for a turkey. 2. Put the turkey in the oven alive. 3. Say prayers and listen to it squeal. 4. Take him out of the oven. 4. Play with it!.

Melody

Corral Drive Elementary