Thanksgiving Activities: Five Fun Ideas!

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

By 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!


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Yes No Questions for Thanksgiving

By 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.“

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A Turkey for Thanksgiving Unit
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Some examples of camouflaged turkeys:

By Mrs Hansens Helpfuls

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 who 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!

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Thanksgiving Math Quest: The Terrible Turkey Takeover

By 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.

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Thanksgiving Celebration Fact Book

By 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.

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