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Thanksgiving K-3 Theme PageThanksgiving Crafts, Decorations, Worksheets, Activities, and PrintoutsIn the USA, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the fourth Thursday in
November. In Canada, Thanksgiving Day is celebrated on the second Monday in October.
The first Thanksgiving in the USA was a feast in 1621 shared by the Pilgrims (who had recently settled Plymouth Colony in what is now Massachusetts) and the Wampanoag Indians, who shared their corn, squash, and wild turkeys.
This first feast was not repeated until over a decade later.
Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln.
In , Thanksgiving was declared a national holiday by the Canadian Parliament in 1879.
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Thanksgiving Crafts
These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children.
The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc.
to see how to combine paint to make all the colors of the rainbow.
This Pilgrim portrait is made from construction paper templates.
Make a wreath of leaves that features what you are thankful for.
Make a tree with handprint leaves to show what you are thankful for.
This easy-to-make scarecrow makes a nice Thanksgiving decoration.
This cute turkey decoration is made from your child's handprints and footprints.
This construction paper turkey decoration lists what a child is thankful for.
This turkey decoration is made from a pine cone, an acorn, and construction paper.
Make a magical leaf image appear using a leaf, crayons, and paper.
Print and color pop-up placecards of Pilgrim hats, pumpkins, and acorns.
Print color placecards of Pilgrim hats, turkeys, pine cones, cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, grapes, and scarecrows.
Make an ear of corn table place card from construction paper and unpopped popcorn.
Make a map of the Pilgrims' voyage and a tiny replica of the Mayflower.
A simple-to-make and beautiful string of leaves to decorate a room.
Print out a Thanksgiving letterhead to make colorful fall stationery.
Print out a different letterheads to make fall stationery.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, do an activity, color and a short phrase to copy.
The activities include counting, matching, drawing, coloring, and writing.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, color and copy a short phrase.
The pages are: I see a turkey, hat, ear of corn, leaf, apple, pie, pumpkin, Native Americans, Pilgrims, cornucopia, and scarecrow.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving for early readers.
The book has pages for each of the letters in the word Thanksgiving.
There are pages for the student to cut out, read, do an activity, color and a short phrase to copy.
A short, printable book about numbers and Thanksgiving for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, count, color and copy a short phrase.
A short, printable book about thankfulness for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, phrases to read, pictures to draw and short phrases to copy and complete.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving for early fluent readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, color and answer questions.
The pages include a cornucopia maze, a corn-matching activity, complete the scarecrow, Thanksgiving facts, and Thanksgiving questions to answer.
A Thanksgiving activity book for early readers.
Activities include: Thanksgiving activity book for early readers.
Activities include: connect the dots, color by number, solve the maze, fill in the missing letters, matching, complete the drawing, word unscramble, word search and word path puzzle.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving colors for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, write, and color.
A short, printable book about Thanksgiving food for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, write, and color.
A short, printable book about the pilgrims for early fluent readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, color, read maps, follow directions, and answer questions.
The pages are about the Pilgrims leaving England, the voyage to the New World, the Mayflower, landing in Massachusetts, the first harsh winter and the Wampanoag, Thanksgiving facts, and the first Thanksgiving feast.
A short book about clothes to print for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, clothes to color, and a short phrase to copy.
The clothes include pants, shirt, belt, hat, gloves, scarf, and umbrella.
A short book to print about turkeys, with pages on turkey anatomy, a turkey maze, match the turkeys, turkey facts, and turkey questions.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10
for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy.
A short book about apples to print, with pages on Johnny Appleseed, how to say apple in many languages, the seasons to label, apple facts, and apple questions.
A short, printable book for early readers, about apples and the numbers from 1 to 10, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy.
A short book about colors to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and write a short phrase.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10
for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy.
A short book about leaves to print, with pages on leaf anatomy, a maple maze, match the leaves, leaf facts, and leaf questions.
A short book about pumpkins to print, with pages on the pumpkin's life cycle, a pumpkin maze, draw a jack-o'-lantern, pumpkin facts, and pumpkin questions.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10 for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, items to count and color, and a short phrase to copy.
A short, printable book about fractions of fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, pies, haystacks, apples, leaves, acorns, ears of corn, and spiders.
A short, printable book about counting and adding fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, haystacks, leaves, apples, pies, webs and ears of corn.
A short, printable book about perimeters, using pumpkin patch terms, including the perimeters of a pumpkin patch, chicken coop, pigpen, corn field, goat pen, horse corral, barnyard, and vegetable garden.
A short, printable book about subtracting fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, apples, ears of corn, webs, leaves, pies and haystacks.
A short book about fall to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and short phrases to copy.
The pages are: I see a leaf, rake, corn, acorn, apple, scarecrow, haystack, pumpkin, pie, turkey, cornucopia, and web.
A short book about fall colors to print for early readers, with pages for the student to color and write a short phrase.
A short, printable book about numbers and autumn for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, count, color and copy a short phrase.
A child can use this printable book as a daily journal while on vacation.
Children can use this activity book on their next long car trip.
Thanksgiving Drawing Worksheets
Match 10 Thanksgiving words to their pictures. The words are corn, pie, pumpkin, yam, turkey, Pilgrims, Indians, cornucopia, haystack, hat.
Draw four Thanksgiving items. Below each item, write its name.
Draw two Thanksgiving symbols, write their names, and then answer simple questions comparing them, for example, "Which one do you see more often?"
Draw two desserts and then answer simple questions comparing them, for example, "Which dessert is messier to eat?"
Finish each of the four drawings around the line of symmetry.
The Thanksgiving pictures are a pumpkin, turkey, hat, and pie.
Or go to the .
Write about what you are thankful for in life, and draw a picture representing the people and things you are grateful for.
Use this form to write a thank you note and draw a picture for someone special.
Use this form to write a thank you note and draw a picture for someone special.
Draw a picture of what you are thankful for, then write an acrostic poem about it.
Start each line of your poem with the letter on that line. Or
Thanksgiving Spelling Worksheets
Match 10 Fall words to their pictures. The words are leaf, rake, scarecrow, crow, apple, web, corn, pumpkin, hay, cloud.
A word scavenger hunt for students in Grades 2-3, using the .
Label the Thanksgiving words in English, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucupia, and roll.
Label the Autumn (fall) words in English, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
A printable worksheet on Thanksgiving Day, with a short text, pictures to label, a route to draw, and questions to answer.
Match the syllables to make 10 Thanksgiving words. The words are turkey, thankful, Pilgrim, dinner, platter, harvest, pumpkin, stuffing, supper, corncob.
Match three syllables to make 10 Thanksgiving words. The words are Mayflower, family, November, Thanksgiving, Indian, harvesting, gratefulness, holiday, together, celebrate.
Find the missing letters in Thanksgiving words, and then color the picture of the word. The words are pie, yam, corn, hat, hay, turkey, Indians, Pilgrims, cornucopia, pumpkin.
Unscramble the Thanksgiving words, and then color the picture of the words. The words are pie, yam, corn, hat, hay, turkey, Indians, Pilgrims, cornucopia, pumpkin.
Use the list of Thanksgiving spelling words to answer simple questions.
grateful, family, feast, Indians, Pilgrims, harvest, squash, turkey, stuffing, yams.
Use the word bank to find synonyms of common Thanksgiving-related words.
Words: frosty/cold, autumn/fall, grateful/thankful, fall/plunge, harvest/crop, Native Americans/Indians, maize/corn, dine/eat, dish/plate, banquet/feast.
Think about how the first pair of words are related to each other. Then, look at the next word and find the word that is related to it in the same way.
Mark the answer.
cow --> mammal : turkey --> bird, dinner, feather, delicious, egg.
Put 10 Thanksgiving words in alphabetical order.
The words are: autumn, corn, family, feast, fish, harvest, holiday, Indians, Pilgrims, squash.
Do a fill-in-the-blank activity on Thanksgiving Day.
Or go to the .
Put two words together to make compound words.
A printable worksheet on turkeys, with a short text, a labeled picture, turkey definitions to match, and questions to answer.
A printable worksheet on corn, with text to read, labeled pictures, and questions to answer.
On this printable worksheet, the student changes one word into another, one letter at a time.
At each step along the way, change only one letter to make a new word. At the end, you have the final, related word. In this puzzle, morph the word corn to husk. Or .
Can you figure out the names of these ten Thanksgiving words?
When a line connects two (or more) boxes, those boxes each contain the same letter.
Holidays: Thanksgiving, Indians and Pilgrims, cornucopia, Massachusetts, bountiful feast, family and friends, November, cranberry sauce, candied yams, pumpkin pie. Or .
How many words can you make using the letters from "Thanksgiving Day"?
: singe, tanking, disk, ...
Draw a line from each Thanksgiving-related word to its anagram.
Words: feats/fates, serve/verse, eat/tea, settler/trestle, friend/finder, meal/lame, bake/beak, yam/may, nuts/stun, dessert/deserts.
Solve the Thanksgiving anagram clues then put the words in the spiral puzzle.
An anagram is a word that is made by rearranging the letters of another word. This is a tricky puzzle.
See if you can think of and write down a Thanksgiving Day word for each letter of the alphabet.
Write plural Thanksgiving-related nouns for turkey, feast, yam, cranberry, leaf, potato, pie, family, loaf, colony.
Then rewrite each sentence with the underlined noun made into a plural -- roll, dish, pumpkin, pie, drumstick, slice.
Write 5 Thanksgiving words for each category.
The categories include: Thanksgiving Food, People to Invite to Thanksgiving
Dinner, Thanksgiving Symbols, "Thank You" in Other Languages, Synonyms For "Eat", Parts of a Place Setting, Thanksgiving Words That Start With "S", Miscellaneous Thanksgiving Words. Or .
For each letter of the word "scarecrow," find words and phrases that are related to or remind you of scarecrows. Think of as many as you can.
Unscramble the adjectives describing an apple. . Or .
These worksheets on elementary vocabulary have the student do an in-depth examination of a word that the teacher supplies.
The student defines the word, uses the word in a sentence, identifies which part of speech it is, draws a picture that exemplifies the word, determines how many syllables it has, finds rhyming words, supplies synonyms and antonyms, etc.
for a fun spelling activity.
Work Bank Printouts:
This is a word bank of Thanksgiving-related words.
This is a word bank of anagrams of Thanksgiving words. An anagram is a word or phrase that is made by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. For example, feast is an anagram of fates.
Thanksgiving Writing Worksheets
Think of and write eight words related to Thanksgiving.
Then, for each word, write a sentence containing the word.
Sample answers: grateful, family, harvest, friends, feast, turkey, holiday, November.
Write a sentence for each Thanksgiving Day word.
Words: harvest, feast, thankful, family, turkey, corn, pumpkin, eaten, autumn, pie.
Rewrite the Thanksgiving paragraph, correcting the capitalization and adding punctuation marks.
Color the turkey and write a short essay about a fantastic Thanksgiving Day feast.
Write about the people you like to celebrate Thanksgiving with and describe your favorite foods.
Write about what you are thankful for in life, and draw a picture representing the people and things you are grateful for.
Write a page on what are you most thankful for in life.
Write about one of your family's Thanksgiving traditions.
Describe it in detail, tell how you feel about it and what it means to you.
Use this form to write a thank you note and draw a picture for someone special.
Use this form to write a thank you note and draw a picture for someone special.
Write a poem about being thankful.
Start each line with a letter from the phrase "THANK YOU."
Draw a picture of what you are thankful for, then write an acrostic poem about it.
Start each line of your poem with the letter on that line. Or
Write a poem about Thanksgiving.
Start each line with a letter from the word "Thanksgiving."
Write adjectives describing a turkey in and around the turkey. Or .
Write a poem about a turkey.
Start each line with a letter from the word "turkey."
Write a poem about a turkey.
The lines of the poem begin with: It sees, It hears, It feels, It understands, It moves, It needs, It likes, It wants, It eats, and It dreams.
A one-page printable worksheet.
Write ten things about Thanksgiving (plus one thing you would like to change).
Put a period at the end of each declarative (telling) sentence. Put a question mark at the end of each question.
Put an exclamation point at the end of each exclamation or command.
A short, printable worksheet with prompts for short answers to questions about your experiences on Thanksgiving. .
Find synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, and a compound word, then capitalize, punctuate, and correct the spelling of sentences.
Color the picture of the turkey, then write 5 facts and 5 opinions about turkeys.
A fact is supported by eviden an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate.
Color the picture of the scarecrow, then write 5 facts and 5 opinions about scarecrows.
A fact is supported by eviden an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate.
Color the picture of the pumpkin, then write 5 facts and 5 opinions about scarecrows.
A fact is supported by eviden an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate.
For each letter of the alphabet, write something you are thankful for. Find words for as many letters as you can.
A short, printable worksheet with prompts for short answers to questions about gratitude. For example, "What happened today that are you most thankful for?"
Draw a picture of a pumpkin, then write an acrostic poem about it.
Start each line of your poem with the letter on that line. Or
Write a poem around the perimeter (outer edges) of the pumpkin. Or .
Write some of the similarities and differences between apples and pumpkins.
Answer the questions below to apply for this job as a scarecrow. Or .
Thanksgiving Math Worksheets and Books to Print
Play turkey bingo with one-digit numbers.
Print turkey bingo cards with numbers on the feathers and then call out numbers (or use simple math problems that have a one-digit answers).
Count the scarecrows that are smiling, frowning, surprised, are wearing a hat, etc.
A short, printable book about numbers and Thanksgiving for early readers.
The book has pages for the student to cut out, read, count, color and copy a short phrase.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10
for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, count, color and copy a short phrase.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10
for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, count, color and copy a short phrase.
Find the missing numbers in each turkey.
Count by ones, twos and threes.
Find the missing numbers in each turkey.
Count by fives, tens, twenties and twenty-fives.
A short, printable book about the numbers from 1 to 10 for early readers, with pages for the student to cut out, count, color and copy a short phrase.
A short, printable book about counting and adding fall items, including pumpkins, scarecrows, haystacks, leaves, apples, pies, webs and ears of corn.
Color and then count the small, medium, large, and upside-down pumpkins. .
Thanksgiving Coloring Worksheets
Coloring printout. Turkeys are large birds that nest on the ground.
Label the turkey diagram on this printout.
Color the Thanksgiving pictures according to simple directions and answer the questions, such as, "Color the maize (corn) in the top middle square yellow with green husks."
Color the turkey picture according to simple directions and answer the questions, such as, "Color the bottom left feather orange."
Color the picture of the pilgrims, Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower ship according to simple directions and answer the questions, such as, "Color Plymouth Rock, in the lower right corner, gray."
Color the cornucopia according to simple directions, such as, "Color the pair of pears yellow."
Color the dishes and utensils according to simple directions, such as, "Color the fork gray."
Color the map of the voyage of the Mayflower from England to America according to simple directions, such as, "Draw a dark blue circle around Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts."
Draw and color a scarecrow according to simple directions, such as, "Color the scarecrow's hat and nose orange."
MiscellaneousThanksgiving Worksheets
Learn all about turkeys for Thanksgiving.
You can print out this turkey.
Read the map, then answer the geography questions about the Pilgrims' crossing on the Mayflower.
Printouts, activities, crafts, and information.
Draw lines between the leaves that are alike.
Determine if the statements are facts or opinions.
A fact is supported by eviden an opinion is how you feel about something and is open to debate.
Thanksgiving Nametags to Print
Eight pumpkin nametags in black-and-white on one printable page.
Eight pumpkin nametags in color on one printable page.
Eight Thanksgiving nametags in black-and-white on one printable page.
Eight Thanksgiving nametags in color on one printable page.
Thanksgiving Words in Many Languages
Label the Thanksgiving (la f&te de Thanksgiving) words in French, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucupia, and roll.
Label the Thanksgiving words in German, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucupia, and roll.
Label the Thanksgiving words in Italian, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucupia, and roll.
Label the Thanksgiving (el di& de Acci&n de Gracias) words in Spanish, including turkey, pumpkin, pie, corn, yam, cranberry, hat, apple, cornucupia, and roll.
Match 10 Spanish Thanksgiving words to their pictures. The words are:
la empanada/pie, el guajolote/turkey, el sombrero/hat, la calabaza/pumpkin, el maiz/corn, el cornucopia/cornucopia, el ar&ndano rojo/cranberry, el &ame/sweet potato, el panecillo/roll, la manzana/apple.
Label the Autumn (l'automne) words in French, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
Label the Autumn (der Herbst) words in German, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
Label the Autumn (l'automno) words in Italian, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
Label the Autumn (el oto&o) words in Spanish, including pumpkin, apple, leaf, rake, corn, scarecrow, crow, turkey, and hay.
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