Enjoy these free Thanksgiving crafts, games, activities and other fun ideas!
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Art Activities:
Thankful Poster: Gather old magazines, catalogs and shopping ads. Parents are happy to donate these items! Have students cut or draw pictures to represent what they are thankful for this holiday season.
Hand Turkey Craft:
Students trace their hands on a piece of paper. On the thumb, students can add an eye, beak and wattle. Students may color the fingers any colors for the feathers of the turkey. They may choose to make them more colorful! Students can draw legs at the bottom of the palm.
Thanksgiving Fingerplay:
Good manners I show (point to self)
Wherever I go. (make two fingers walk)
"Excuse me, please," and "thank you," (three fingers)
Are just a few words
I should know. (point to self and shake head vertically)
Thanksgiving Vocabulary Words:
abundance, blessings, corn, cornucopia, cranberries, dinner, eat, family, feast, gobble, gratitude, holiday, Indian, joy, kernels, laughter, maize, Mayflower, Native Americans, occasion, pie, parade, relatives, squash, sweet potato, welcome
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Thanksgiving Game:
Turkey Chase - Students sit in a circle. Give the students two different colors balls or different colored gourds, apples, etc. One item represents the turkey. The second item represents the farmer. The students begin passing the turkey. Shortly after, the students begin passing the farmer in the same direction around the circle. The object of the game is to make the farmer catch the turkey.
Thanksgiving Creative Play Brain Break for Movement in the Classroom:
Students pretend to be a small round kernel of popcorn with a little water inside. Students pretend to be placed in a pan, microwave or popcorn popper. Students may be squatting in an open area on the floor or gymnasium. It is getting hot, hotter, even hotter! The water is starting to expand! Finally, the students begin POPPING into a popcorn bouncing up and down.
Turkey Feather Races:
This activity works best in a hallway, along the back of a classroom or across a long table. Each student has their own straw and feather. Students take turns racing each other by blowing the feather from one designated location to the next.
Thanksgiving Mayflower Song:
(Tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Sail, sail, sail the Mayflower
Slowly across the sea.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily
Pilgrims are now free.
Don't forget to have students try to singing this in rounds! A round in when at least three students sing the exact same melody in unison but with each beginning at different times in the tune.
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