Traditional Thanksgiving & Turkeys Notebooking Pages for 1st to 8th grades
These free Thanksgiving Notebooking printables will help your elementary and middle school students show what they’ve learned in their study of the traditional North American Thanksgiving and turkey dinners.
These Thanksgiving notebooking pages can be used for your study of the North American holiday, Thanksgiving, and the bountiful turkey dinners with family and friends, which is in celebration of the blessings we’ve been given.
Online resources, videos, and book recommendations are below to help you and your students learn more about the American Thanksgiving and the traditional turkey dinner.
With these Thanksgiving & Turkeys notebooking pages, your kids can write about large family dinners with extended family and friends, eating large amounts of turkey, mashed potatoes, and pumpkin pie.
Or about the symbol of turkeys and how a turkey is pardoned every year by the President of the United States. They could write a story about the first Thanksgiving or their own family traditions.
Topics included in these notebooking pages:
- Thanksgiving
- “Happy Thanksgiving”
- Thanksgiving Dinner
- Thanksgiving Traditions
- Traditional Thanksgiving in America
- Canadian Thanksgiving
These free notebooking printables would even work for copying a poem or quote about Thanksgiving, such as this quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson:
“Cultivate the habit of being grateful for every good thing that comes to you, and to give thanks continuously. And because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude.” —
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Are you looking for notebooking printables about Turkeys, but not Thanksgiving Turkeys? 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
The First Thanksgiving by Jean Craighead George
Why Thanksgiving? by Steve Deace
The First Thanksgiving by Linda Hayward
Squanto and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metexas
For teens and adults: Miles Standish: The Puritan Captain by John S.C. Abbott
Videos
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.
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?
Drive Thru History: Thanksgiving One of our fellow HHO Squad members said this about this video: “Thank you for sharing this. I am a direct descendant of John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. This is one of the best videos I’ve seen.”
Watch this video from the History Guy, Get Stuffed, the History of the Turkey to learn more about the tradition (?) of having turkey for Thanksgiving dinner.
How to Draw a Thanksgiving Turkey and How to Draw a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner
Online Resources
Your kids may also want to make this keepsake nature turkey craft for thanksgiving.
Just for fun, print out these free Thanksgiving Scavenger Hunt pages or these Thanksgiving color by number pages for your kids to use while you are cooking the turkey.
Thanksgiving & Turkeys Notebooking and Journaling Printables
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your student’s needs. There’s a large elementary-lined one, a smaller elementary-lined one, and a regular-lined one. There are 18 pages in total.
Each level of the Thanksgiving & Turkeys printables also comes in a photo, a color graphic, and a printer ink friendly black/white.
Download your copy of the Traditional Thanksgiving & Turkeys Notebooking pages from the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking >Holidays
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More Thanksgiving Homeschooling Resources
Thankfulness Handprint Tree and Paper Bag Turkey (on our sister site, Whole Child Homeschool)
You might also like our free Thanksgiving lapbook and Thanksgiving picture crossword puzzle.
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