Five Fun Thanksgiving
Activities!
Keeping kids engaged in the classroom and home
can be fun with the right Thanksgiving activities. If you are looking for some
fun, educational ideas to incorporate the holiday, below, you will find some
fantastic resources that do just that! These activities were created by other
teachers who have made their creations available to share through their
Teachers Pay Teachers store (each item links back to the creator’s shop).
Thanksgiving STEM
Challenges BUNDLE
TPT STORE NAME:
Jewel’s
School Gems
This
Thanksgiving STEM challenge bundle is a fun, creative, and engaging way to get
your students designing and building during this time of year. Take your
students through the engineering design process and challenge them to build a
Mayflower ship, a turkey trap, and a Thanksgiving table by using simple
materials, such as popsicle sticks, drinking straw, and skewers. You and your
students will surely have a blast!
Link:
Yes No Questions
for Thanksgiving
TPT STORE NAME: Angie S
"Celebrating
holidays is a lot of fun at an early age. As a teacher, you have to think of
creating and managing activities that would get your students interested in the
holiday and get them willing to learn about it. I`ve thought about including Yes
– No Questions to improve the vocabulary on
Thanksgiving topic. I used real life pictures to help students better
understand the meaning of the new words. These worksheets work great for age
3-5 as well as for older students with special needs.“
Link:
WATCH
THIS VIDEO Showcasing this idea here: Video Link
A Turkey for
Thanksgiving Unit
A
Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting is one of my favorite class books to
read during Thanksgiving. It is a book about a moose that goes in search of a
turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. It is an adorable story with a cute twist at
the end. The lesson from this story is one of being thankful for friends. After
reading the book, I always have my students do a fun writing craftivity. I
first have students color/disguise a clip art of a turkey. The next step in the
craftivity is to have students write a story about a turkey that runs away and
camouflages itself into something so nobody can find it for Thanksgiving. I
have had some really creative writing over the years. These also make great
bulletin boards!
Some
examples of camouflaged turkeys:
If
you are interested in the literature unit for this book just click the link!
I
also have a link to a set of FREE Thanksgiving themed calendar numbers below!
Links:
Thanksgiving Math
Quest: The Terrible Turkey Takeover
TPT STORE NAME: Mrs
J’s Resource Creations
This
Thanksgiving Math Quest ‘The Terrible Turkey Takeover’ is a quirky and fun way
to engage your students. In this math adventure story, people are turning into turkeys! It is up to the student (the star of the quest) to save Mathhattan by
solving a variety of challenges and puzzles using math as they progress reading
through the chapters. Three levels of difficulty are provided for
differentiation (EASY, MEDIUM, HARD).
The chapters are interchangeable to enable you to customize the math difficulty
across the three sets if you need.
An optional video hook is provided to set the stage
to engage and introduce your students to the story. View video hook here: VIDEO HOOK LINK
Link:
Thanksgiving
Celebration Fact Book
TPT STORE NAME: Beyond
Imagination
This
fact booklet is perfect to use for a Thanksgiving study, history lesson, or
integrated into a wider social studies unit. Learn all about
Thanksgiving with your lower elementary grade/
kindergarten/ special education learners using this differentiated printable
booklet, which includes some fun bonus adventure passes and post cards.
Link:
Enjoy the ideas!
Erin
