Traditional Thanksgiving Elementary Notebooking Pages
Use these free Thanksgiving printables for your younger elementary kiddos learning about the First Thanksgiving Story.
These Elementary Thanksgiving notebooking pages can be used for your study of the North American holiday, Thanksgiving, and the story of the first Thanksgiving in Plymouth Colony, 1621.
Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about Thanksgiving or to even create a mini-unit study.
With these Elementary Thanksgiving notebooking pages, your kids can write about the First Thanksgiving, or the traditional Thanksgiving Foods at American or Canadian dinners.
Or about their extended family gathering at Thanksgiving.
Topics included in these notebooking pages:
- Thanksgiving Foods
- The first Thanksgiving
- Thanksgiving and Family
- a Thanksgiving story
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about Thanksgiving.
Are you looking for notebooking printables about Thanksgiving, but need notebooking printables for upper elementary or middle/high school? Use these instead:
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Resources for Learning About the Traditional American Thanksgiving
Books
The Berenstain Bears Give Thanks by Stan and Jan Berenstain
Little Critter: Just a Special Thanksgiving by Mercer Mayer
A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting
Milly And The Macy’s Parade by Shana Corey OR if you can’t find it, Balloons over Broadway: The True Story of the Puppeteer of Macy’s Parade by Melissa Sweet is a decent substitution
Why Thanksgiving? by Steve Deace
The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward
Videos
The History of Thanksgiving for Kids from Bedtime History
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?
To watch the quintessenintal Thanksgiving story, Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving, you’ll have to buy the DVD (at the time of this writing, it’s only available to stream if you have AppleTV+). We bought the Charlie Brown Holiday Collection–even our 20-something year old kids insist on watching the Thanksgiving and Christmas ones every year.
Online Resources
Hands-on Activities
Use a plastic fork to create feathers on this Fork-Painted Turkey
Make a list of things for which you are grateful or thankful while making these super cute Thankfulness Paper Bag Turkey.
These Thanksgiving color by number printables will entertain your younger kiddos practicing number recognition.
Print out a couple copies of this free printable Thanksgiving scavenger hunt for the little kids to complete while you are cooking the turkey.
After the Thanksgiving dinner dishes are all done, pull out these free printable Thanksgiving Bingo Cards for everyone to play a fun round of Bingo.
You might also like our free Thanksgiving lapbook, Thanksgiving word search, and Thanksgiving crossword puzzle.
Elementary Turkey Thanksgiving Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in black/white to save on printing ink. There are 6 pages in total.
Download your copy of the Elementary Thanksgiving Notebooking Pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Holidays
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