Showing posts with label Thanksgiving Activities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving Activities. Show all posts

Thursday, November 20, 2014

Thanksgiving Preschool Theme

Today was our Thanksgiving Preschool Theme.  We enjoyed reading this printable booklet that you can color as well called "The Story of Thanksgiving"
I have not been taking many pictures lately, but I do have a great list of resources for a Thanksgiving Theme to share with you.  Here are some wonderful printable packets:


You can also check out previous Thanksgiving Posts of mine (with more pictures)!


We most likely will be taking a preschool break next week, but will be back for lots of December fun!

Friday, November 22, 2013

Thanksgiving Preschool Activities

I am going to be spreading out our Thanksgiving activities over a couple of days.  There are so many great printable packs and activities for kids out there based on this theme.  I don't use everything from every pack, but I generally use a few things from many so I thought I would share some links to some of my favorite activities that are available for free.
  1. Homeschool Creation's Thanksgiving Printable Pack
  2. Over The Big Moon's Thanksgiving PreK Printable Pack
  3. Lawteedah's Thanksgiving Tot Kits
  4. Our Little Monkeys' Thanksgiving Tot Pack
  5. 2 Teaching Mommie's Thanksgiving Unit
  6. Confession's of a Homeschooler's Thanksgiving Preschool Printables
  7. 1+1=1 Thanksgiving Preschool Pack
  8. 3 Dinosaurs Thanksgiving Pack
  9. Little Monkeys' Thanksgiving Preschool Pack Printables
There are also other activities out there that stand alone or in their own little packs.  I enjoyed the story pictured above because it is about the right length and level for my 3 year old and he could color it.
We also enjoy this Harvest Pattern Activity.
 I made this Thanksgiving Matching game several years ago and we continue to use it and enjoy it.

Here is a list of links to various Thanksgiving Activities including the ones pictured above.

  1.  The Story of Thanksgiving
  2. Thanksgiving File Folder Games (including the one pictured above)
  3. November Roll and Color Printables
  4. Thanksgiving Color By Number
  5. Thanksgiving Activities at Super Mom
  6. Five Fat Turkeys
  7. Thanksgiving for Kids 25+Activities
  8. 20 Things to Do With Your Kid before Thanksgiving is over
  9. Thanksgiving Finger play
  10. I Am Thankful Writing 
  11. Thanksgiving Coloring Pages

We also made a pilgrim hat which I found the patter (there is a smaller one too) here.  I realized that this hat was going to be huge for my son, but when it was finished he loved it and didn't want to make a smaller one. I think he looks more like a gnome than a pilgrim, but hey, that's just me.  

If you want Turkey themed activities you can check out my Turkey Preschool Theme post from the other day. You can also check out our "Charlie Brown Thanksgiving"

I will not be blogging next week, but we will be back with Christmas themed preschool ideas in December!

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Turkey Preschool Theme

Today we talked about turkeys!
There are tons of great Thanksgiving ideas out there.  Today we just focused on turkey activities.  Check back later in the week for more general Thanksgiving ideas.

I used this little flannel turkey to talk about the different parts of a turkey.  You can see he is nothing special, but he gets the job done.
Tom the Turkey With the Terrible Temper is a great story to tell this time of year.  I found a turkey on the internet one year and made my own visuals by printing off the turkey with the color of paper I needed.
This is a Turkey Feather Count Game I made a few years ago.  You can see my blog post about it here.
I am all about fun ways to get my son practicing his skills with scissors.  Here are some cutting activities I found.  He loves practicing with this style.
Here is another one that can be colored first.
There are a lot of Turkey Printable Packs out there and even more Thanksgiving ones that have a lot of turkey activities in them.  Here are a few favorites.  This activity came from this Gobble Gobble Learning Pack.  With all the packs I link there are more activities than just what I have pictured.
This Thanksgiving Tot Kit has a lot of fun turkey activities.
This Turkey Printable Pack is probably my overall favorite for this theme.  Great preschool age activities.
This link from All Our Days also has several turkey printables.

This file folder game from File Folder Fun is a big favorite at our house.
 Here is a link to Five Little Turkey Printables.  We read the poem, but didn't do the activities.

There are so many cute crafts for turkeys out there!  I let my son pick what he wanted to do because I couldn't decide.  He thought a foot and hand print turkey looked fun. 
 My kindergartener wanted to make a turkey with paint so I helped him paint his hand using brown in his palm for the body and different colors on his fingers for the feathers and head.  Then he drew legs, wings, a beak, and the wattle.  He also wrote "My turkey is funny."
 Here are some links to some more turkey crafts:

Pattern Block turkeys
Paper Plate Turkey Wreath
Turkey with real leaves
Foot Print turkey (also has other Thanksgiving activities)
Ramblings of a Crazy Woman has several turkey crafts

You can also find more ideas from my previous turkey themed days in 2009, 2010, and 2011.

Monday, November 19, 2012

Thanksgiving Activities

I am still here, despite my horrible blogging as of late.  I decided I would just combined a big post of all the Thanksgiving Activities that I have found lately for us to do since I haven't been faithfully blogging.  I will try to be much better at posting our Christmas activities.

A collection of fun Thanksgiving ideas

Here are some Thanksgiving Printable Packs

Mini books

Turkey Crafts





Here are posts of our previous Thanksgiving activities.  And there is so much more out there!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Highlights from our "Brown" day

Here are some highlights from our Color Brown day.
This was our math activity. I made this ages ago. It's super easy, just cut out 10 fish shapes and write a number on each of them. Then make enough worms so that you can put the corresponding number of worms with the right fish. Then you can feed the worms to the fish.
This is a super fun Turkey. Check out the instructions at this great website.


Here are my boys helping me make brownies. They love to help out in the kitchen.