Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Fun

Thanksgiving Projects

Handprint Turkey

Paper Plate Painted Turkey

Turkey and Indian Craftivity

Here is the link

Rectangle Turkey

Plastic Lid Turkey

Footprint Turkey

Learning Projects

Name Turkey

Skills:  names

ABC Turkey

Skills:  Alphabet

Roll-a-Feather

Skills:  counting, number writing

Learning Activities

Counting On Math Station

Skills:  number recognition, counting on, scissor skills

Here is the link

Thanksgiving Preschool Printables -Counting, Upper and Lowercase Letter Match

Here is the link

Turkey track star and ten frames

Skills:  number recognition, colors, ten frames

Here is the link

Thanksgiving Patterns

Skills:  patterns

Here is the link

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

Print off the poem from Mrs. First Grade

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

Here are the directions for these adorable 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!

Thanksgiving Fun!

Thanksgiving Fun

Projects
Circle Handprint Turkey
Cut out a larger circle from brown construction paper and a smaller circle from tan construction paper
Cut out an orange beak and feet, and a red "gobbler"
Paint a hands with different colored paint and press around the paper
Let dry and assemble the turkey - adding googly eyes
Glue the turkey in the middle of the hand prints
Cut around the turkey

 

Turkey Clothespin

Glue on googly eyes and an orange bead - for the beak

Place a small amount of  glue in the clothespin and stick 3-4 feather in the opening

 

 Paper Plate Name Turkey

Cut a brown body and an orange beak and different colored feathers -enough for each child's name

Directions:

Color a small paper plate brown

Glue the body onto the plate

Glue the beak onto the turkey and draw on eyes

Glue the feathers to the back of the plate

Write your name on the feathers - 1 letter on each feather

 

Plastic Egg Turkey

Cut a beak and gobbler from yellow and red felt

Directions:

Glue a matching color pom pom on one half of a plastic Easter egg

Glue on the felt beak, "gobbler" and eyes

On the back, glue on 4-5 feathers

 

Tissue Paper Turkey

Cut a paper plate in half

Cut pieces of colored tissue paper into squares

Cut a circle from brown, craft foam, a triangle and feet from orange craft foam, and a "gobbler" from read craft foam

Directions:

Assemble the turkey

Glue the tissue paper squares around the edge of the 1/2 paper plate

Staple the assembled turkey to the plate

 

Pumpkin Pie Magnet

Trace the lid from an old soup can onto orange craft foam -make sure the lid doesn't have sharp edges.

Cut a triangle out from the orange circle.

Directions:

Glue the orange craft foam to the inside of the lid

Hot glue on a tan chenille stem - this is the pie's crust

Cut a square from a white coffee filter and accordion fold it.  Glue it on top of the pie!

Attach a magnet to the back.

 

 

Learning Activities

 Counting Feathers

Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting, one-to-one correspondence

Cut out "turkeys" from brown construction paper and draw on eyes and beaks

Write 1 number on each turkey along with the corresponding number of dots

Cut out different colored feathers from construction paper

Glue the turkeys to construction paper (leave a gap at the top, so you are able to add feathers later)

Directions: 

Say the number and count out feathers to match the number.  Glue the correct amount of feathers to the matching turkey.

 

Turkey Feathers - Number Order

 Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting, number order

I created this activity and printed it off for Addie to complete.

I cut out the feathers for her and then she put them in order!

 

 

 

Gobble, CVC Word Game!

Skills:  Reading - CVC words, sight words, reading

Here is the link to this great CVC word game

 

 

The Pairs 

 

Thanksgiving Numbers Clip-It!

Skills:  Math - number recognition, counting

Here is the link to this cute Thanksgiving themed counting activity