Thanksgiving Activities

 MAKE (Arts and Crafts)

• Handprint Turkeys
• Paper Plate Turkey with Feathers
• Indian and Pilgrim Hats
• Turkey with Feathers
• Turkey with Thankful Feathers
• Tissue Paper Turkey
• Scarecrows
• Fall Trees
• How to Cook a Turkey
• Leaf Wreath
• Leaf Sun Catchers
• Fall Leaf Prints
• Leaf Critters
• Paper-Plate Scarecrow
• Free Art (Have art materials accessible to children such as a coloring page, a stencil, an easel, markers, stamps, colored pencils, crayons, play-dough, and tissue paper/construction paper/fabric squares for children to work with if they'd like as well)

EXPLORE (Sensory Bins)

• Fall Leaves (Real or Plastic)
• Acorns or Nuts
• Pinecones
• Small Pumpkins and Gourds
• Turkey feathers
• Thanksgiving Dinner
• Fall Soup
• Farm
• Turkey
• Scarecrows
• Fall Button Tree
• Pumpkin Patch with Hay
• Pilgrims and Indians
• Peeling Corn Husks

CREATE (Play Doh - Mats, Cookie Cutters, Invitations to Play)

• Turkey
• Scarecrow
• Fall

PLAY (Inside and Outside Games/Activities)

• Puzzles/Board Games
• Block Center/Building Ideas
• Dramatic Play
• Quiet Activities
• File Folder Activities/Worksheets
• Active Games/Outside Play Activities

READ (Books for the Seasonal Book Basket or Shelf)

• Over the River
• The First Thanksgiving
• Little House Books
• How to Catch a Turkey
• The Thanksgiving Story
• The First Thanksgiving
• A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
• In November
• Leaf Man
• Pumpkin Soup
• Thankful
• Biscuit is Thankful
• The Very First Americans
• Bear Says Thanks

SING (Songs/Poems)

• Over the River 

EAT (Snacks)

• Pumpkin Pie
• Pecan Pie
• Monthly Holiday Snacks (Sandwiches, Waffles, Pancakes, French Toast, Sugar Cookies, Brownies, Candy, Cake Pops, Donuts, Muffins, Popsicles, Cheese and Lunch Meat)

VISIT  (Visitor/Field Trip Ideas)

• Field Trips