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Thanksgiving Activities for Kids

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Happy Thanksgiving Week! We love the Thanksgiving holiday season so much. I love the food, the family time, and the traditions we have created as a family. Today I have a big list of Thanksgiving activities for kids to help you create some traditions with your family.
Some of these thanksgiving activities are educational, some are purely for fun. I hope you’ll find something that works for your class and family.
Thanksgiving Activities for Kids

Thanksgiving Handprint Thankful Tree

No thanksgiving activity list is complete without the classic handprint tree or handprint turkey.
This handprint tree is a fun and simple craft to show what we are thankful for this month. We did it together as a family, but it could easily done individually, too!
We each traced our handprints on a different color of paper. Then cut them out and on each one write something that you are thankful for.
Cut out a brown trunk for the base of the tree. Using glue sticks, glue the trunk onto a blue piece of paper. Then glue the handprints on next slightly overlapping, but still allowing the words to be shown.

 

thanksgiving handprint tree craft

More Thanksgiving Activities for Kids from My Site:

Print out our Gratitude Journal and write some things that you are thankful for! This is a wonderful Thanksgiving activity that can be done throughout the month of November.

Here is a simpler version of the gratitude journal for young kids. Pictured is a printable that I found online many years ago and is no longer available.

You could easily just put it together with a plain piece of paper cut into squares. Try also using my Folded Book with 1 Piece of Paper method. Just have kids draw things they are thankful for on each page.

i am thankful book

Play the Gratitude Game. This is a favorite around here! This is a DIY game we made years ago, but that makes an appearance most years. It’s perfect to do around the table or when waiting for food to cook. Thanksgiving games for family are a fun bonding activity.

gratitude game

Check out this Thanksgiving Alphabet, Thankful Writing Prompts & Conversation starters. It’s a bundle of a few fun thankful activities. It can be used in a preschool thanksgiving theme, too! The conversation cards are great to put on the Thanksgiving table to get the conversation going.

thanksgiving activity- conversation starters and writing prompts

We love this Thanksgiving tradition: Thanksgiving Traditions: Five Kernels of Corn. Use this when you set the table for Thanksgiving Dinner to bring some more meaning to the meal. Place five corn kernels with the printable message!

thanksgiving tradition

 

Teach Kids Gratitude with a Thanksgiving Garland This was a favorite of my whole family! This one is made out of construction paper, but it could be fun with paper leaves strung together, too!

thanksgiving gratitude garland- activity for kids

 

Learn about Thanksgiving Then and Now. This is a fun educational thanksgiving activity for young kids.

Try some Thanksgiving math & counting activities.

thanksgiving math

Print out some Thanksgiving Turkey Activity Pages to keep the kids entertained until turkey time!  Grab some crayons or colored pencils and get coloring!

 

This printable Thanksgiving Writing Activity is a fun one! It could also be used as a placemat for your kids at the table.

thanksgiving writing activity

Turkey Tag is a really fun Thanksgiving craft and activity to get kids active & playing. It’s an easy craft for turkey day! We made it out of feathers and clothespins.

turkey tag

 

Thanksgiving Activity: Dinner Scratch-Off Cards are a really fun activity for kids during the dinner! What’s on the menu? Pumpkin pie, mashed potatoes?  Scratch off each item as you eat! Older kids and younger kids enjoy this one!

thanksgiving dinner scratch off cards

Try out these First Thanksgiving Coloring Pages, they are educational and fun!

first thanksgiving Coloring Pages

Make a Fold Out Thankful Book with your little ones. This was a really fun project!

Fold out thankful book

 

Family Thankful Jar Craft– the thankful or gratitude jar is great to have on your kitchen counter all month long. Add a little to it each day, then read it together as a family on Thanksgiving day.

thankful jar thanksgiving activity

 

Write a Thanksgiving Acrostic Poem:

Write something you are thankful for with each letter of the word Thanksgiving.

Here is what my son came up with:

Turkey
Home
Apple Cider
Night
Kindness
Soil
Grandma
Ice Cream
Village of the Pilgrims
Iron (the metal)
Nice Parents
Grandpa

Plus, we have been reading tons of fun books about the Thanksgiving holiday.

How are you celebrating Thanksgiving this week?  I hope you have a wonderful holiday week filled with family, friends, love, laughter and lots of good food!

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  1. All I can say is WOW! thanks for all this information! I gave my kids most of this week off (besides a few prescheduled lessons like Latin with Nana and piano) but I wanted to do some Thanksgiving stuff! This is perfect! chickensbunniesandhomeschool.blogspot.com

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