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!

The Letter T and Turkey!

The Letter T and Turkey

The Letter T

T is for turkey

T is for Tree

 Turkey Projects

Watercolor Hand Print Turkey

Cut out a Turkey body from brown paper along with an orange beak and feet and red "gobbler".  Paint both hands with watercolor paint and press onto white paper.  When dry cut around the hand prints and glue them to the assembled turkey.  Make sure you add googly eyes!!

Turkey Hand Print Jar

Trace 1 hand onto white paper.  Cut out a beak from orange craft foam.  Cut a red pipe cleaner for the "gobbler".  

Directions:  Glue on the facial features.   Color the traced hand print.  Cut out the hand print and glue onto the back of the glass jar.  Add Reeses Pieces Candy!

Bottle Cap Turkey Magnets

Cut out 4 craft foam feathers in different colors.  Cut out legs and a beak from orange craft foam and the "gobbler" from red craft foam.

Directions:  Glue the 4 feathers and the feet to the back of the bottle cap.  Glue on 2 eyes, a beak and the "gobbler"  When dry add a magnet to the back of the bottle cap.

Packing Peanuts Turkey

Cut a turkey shape from brown paper along with an orange beak and red "gobbler."  

Directions:  Glue the turkey to a piece of paper.  Glue on the facial features.  Draw on eyes.  

Color packing peanuts.  Glue on the colored packing peanuts for the feathers.  Arrange the "feathers" in a pattern!

Foot Print Feather Turkey

Paint 1 foot brown.  When dry glue on craft feathers.  Add googly eyes and draw on a beak.

Turkey Learning Activities

Shape Turkeys

Skills:  Shape Identifications, counting

Turkey Upper and Lowercase Letter Match

Skills:  letter identification, letter matching

Here is the link to the ABC Thanksgiving Turkey Worksheet

Five Little Turkey Emergent Readers

Skills:  counting, early reading

Here is the link for this Turkey Emergent Reader

Thanksgiving Matching and Counting Feathers

Skills: matching, counting 

Here is the link to these Thanksgiving activities 

Turkey Name Writing

Skills:  name writing, counting letters in your name

Here is the link for these cute turkey cards

Turkey PreWriting Practice

Skills:  prewriting, tracing

Upper and Lowercase Turkey Letter Match

Skills:  upper and lowercase letter recognition

Turkey Coloring

Skills:  coloring, color ID

Here is the link for the 3 above activities

Turkey Size Sorting

Skills:  sorting, size sequencing

Here is the link for the Size Sorting Activity