You can ask Mom. Or look it up on Wikipedia. Or call the Butterball hot line.

Or trust some of the youngest, brightest, most imaginative minds on the planet — first- and second-graders at Schwegler School — for advice in preparing your holiday turkey.

Or not.

“They’re great kids,” said Laura Hollinger, a library media assistant at the school, 2201 Ousdahl Road, “but no, I’m not doing that.”

Are you game? Feel free to sample creativity from these answers to a simple question asked over lunch Tuesday at the school: So, just how do you make a turkey?

Click through the photo gallery at left to learn what the kids we spoke to had to say, and you can also leave us your tips in the comments.