Showing posts with label Pilgrim crafts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pilgrim crafts. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Thanksgiving Fun and the Letter D!

Thanksgiving Fun and the Letter D
The Letter D
D is for drums

D is for dinosaur

D is for Duck 
Cut out a green construction paper circle and a yellow triangle (beak)
Paint on hand brown.  When dry glue on head, beak, googly eye and yellow feather.
Write D is for Duck!

Thanksgiving Projects
Finger Print Indian Corn
Cut out two corn shapes from white paper
Cut a length of raffia and hole punch the tops of the corn shapes.
Press fingers into orange, yellow and brown paint and press painted fingers onto the paper
When dry string the raffia through the holes and make a bow

Turkey Hand Print Poem
Paint one hand brown and the fingers different colors to make a turkey.  Press the hand onto the bottom space of the paper.  Draw on legs, eyes and beak!

Pumpkin Pie - I am Thankful
Cut out a white and brown circle.  Scallop the edges of the brown circle.  Cut out an orange smaller circle.  Glue the orange circle on top of the brown circle to assemble the pie.  Cut out a "triangle" piece of the pie and glue it on top of the white circle.  Write I am thankful for on the orange circle.  Write what you are thankful for on the white triangle !

I Spy Thanksgiving
I found this cute I Spy printable here!  I laminated ours, so we can reuse it every year.

Paper Plate Pilgrims



Thanksgiving Learning Activities
Pilgrim Hat Name
Skills:  counting letters in your name, name identification
I cut out and assembled Pilgrim Hats.  Keely counted the letters in her name.  Then she found each letter in her name and glued the foam letters to each Pilgrim hat!

Turkey Scissor Practice
Skills:  scissor practice
Here is the link to this Turkey Scissor Practice Printable
The finished products!

Thanksgiving Friends Scissor Practice/Puzzle
Skills:  scissor practice, gluing, matching
This cute activity comes from the same source/link as the Turkey Scissor Practice printable!

Thanksgiving Name Writing/Identification
Skills:  name writing, name identification
This printable can be found along with the Scissor Practice printable above
Tana (age 4) worked on writing her name, Keely (age 2) worked on name identification and spelling

The Letter a Search
Skills: letter a identification, counting
Here is the link to this Thanksgiving Letter Aa activity.

Describe That Turkey Sentence Writing
Skills:  reading, sentence building, word order, writing
My Kindergartner and 4th grade are on vacation this week, so I kept them busy with fun Thanksgiving Activities - My Kindergartner did this one! Here is the link to Describe That Turkey
All of her choices                                    The finished sentence
The finished Sentence and Picture

Turkey Shape Graph
Skills:  shapes, coloring, graphing, coloring
My Kindergartner completed this - I have to keep her busy!!
Here is the link to this Turkey Shape Graph

Turkey Number Cards - Count It and Clip It!
Skills:  Counting, number recognition
My 2 almost 3 year old did this activity.  She had fun counting the cute turkeys and then clipping the correct numbers with the clothespins!  Here is the link to these fun Turkey Number Cards
Clipping the matching number
The Clipped Number Cards

Making 10 - Addition!
Skills:  addition, making 10, fact families
Here is another activity my 6 year old did this week!  Here is the link to this cute Making 10 Turkey


Turkey Addition
Skills: addition
I'm keeping my kindergartner busy - she had fun finding the sums and following the code to color the cute, Thanksgiving turkey!
This cute coloring addition activity is in the same packet (link) as the Making 10 Turkey above!




















Monday, November 23, 2009

Toilet Paper Roll Pilgrim Hat!

Day 2 of the week - The theme this week is Thanksgiving. The letter of the week is V, v and the number of the week is 20.
Project - Toilet Paper Roll Pilgrim Hat - I don't remember where I saw this project, but I remember it looked simple, cute and fun! Directions: (Me)-Cut a 3-inch section from a cardboard toilet paper or paper towel roll. (Kids)-Paint the 3-inch section of cardboard toilet paper roll black (inside and out). (Me) -Cut a brim out of black craft foam, about 1 inch longer than the end of the toilet paper roll. (Kids) - Glue the brim to the bottom of the painted toilet tissue roll. (Me)-Cut a small buckle out of yellow craft foam. (Kids)-Glue the buckle to the hat. (Me)-Use the scissors to cut 2 slits in the top of the hat, directly across from each other(optional). Finally, slide a place card into the slits you cut. (optional)
Materials Needed - toilet paper or paper towel roll, scissors, black paint, paint brush, black and yellow foam, glue.
Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
The letter V, v- writing, recognition, following directions, cutting and pasting
The number 20- recognition, writing, counting
Number Review - turkey game!



Cut and Paste Pilgrim!

Day 1 of the week - The theme this week is Thanksgiving. The letter of the week is V, v and the number of the week is 20.
Project - Cut and Paste Pilgrim (Pilgrim Paper Craft)- I found this project on the website http://www.dltk-holidays.com/thanksgiving/crafts.html under Pilgrim Crafts. I printed out the templates and traced the hat, buckle and vest onto black construction paper, the hat band onto white construction paper and the head onto tan construction paper. I cut out the traced pieces. Connor and Lauren glued the head, hat, vest, buckle and hat band onto colored construction paper to form a pilgrim. They drew eyes, nose, mouth and cheeks (Lauren used googly eyes). Lauren drew a body for her pilgrim too. They also wrote the word Pilgrim on the paper. Materials Needed - white, tan, black construction paper, pilgrim template, full sheet of construction paper, googly eyes, scissors, glue, crayons and or markers.
Learning Activities - I have been using the workbook Everything for Early Learning Preschool workbook. (I purchased it at Wal-Mart)
Today's Activities:
The letter V, v- writing, recognition, beginning sound
The number 20- recognition, writing, counting
Number Review - counting, following directions, cutting and pasting