Thanksgiving Activities for Homeschool Families

Here are Thanksgiving Activities in all subjects to help keep your students occupied the week of Thanksgiving.

Whether you are busy cleaning and cooking for a Thanksgiving feast or organizing and packing for a trip to visit family and friends, you still want your kids to be learning.

It can be challenging to keep your children learning during the week of Thanksgiving as they get more and more excited about the holiday and seeing friends and family. Use these resources instead of your regular schoolwork to make a fun, easy, and memorable holiday.

Thanksgiving History:

Teach your students the history behind that first Thanksgiving day with this Thanksgiving lapbook. Learn all about the Pilgrims and the help provided to them by the Native Americans.

Thanksgiving Science:

Use cranberries and baking soda to create top-secret ink that will write invisible messages.  Learn a little chemistry by using acids and bases to change the colors!

Or study the Science of Turkey Feathers with these resources from The Happy Housewife.

Turkey Life Cycle Printable Pack from 123Homeschool4Me.

Thanksgiving Math:

Let your students practice their fractions with this Turkey Fractions Booklet.

Thanksgiving Color by Addition Worksheets from KindergartenWorksheets.com

Thanksgiving Hundreds Chart Coloring Pages at KindergartenWorksheetsAndGames.com

Pre-Algebra Coloring Worksheets from PreAlgebraCoach.com

Thanksgiving English Language Arts:

Use one of these Thanksgiving writing prompts and answer the questions about Thanksgiving and gratitude or create a short story.

Write it on one of these free printable Thanksgiving notebooking papers: Thanksgiving turkey or Pilgrims.

Use the picture clues and the word bank to fill in this easy Thanksgiving crossword puzzle.  You can also color the Thanksgiving-related pictures.

Print this easy Thanksgiving word search for your kids.

Use these 101 Questions to ask kids to create fun, meaningful conversation at your Thanksgiving dinner table.

Thanksgiving Art

Drawing the Mayflower:

Follow Art Projects for Kids’ step-by-step picture instructions to draw your own Mayflower ship just like the one the pilgrims traveled in across the Atlantic Ocean.

Turkey Finger Painting:

If you don’t mind a little mess, these turkey finger paintings are adorable! And this video from Art for Kids shows how easy it is.

Turkey Fine Motor Preschool Activities:

Your toddlers and preschoolers can use leftover bits of craft supplies like feathers or bits of torn construction paper to hide their turkey in this Disguise the Turkey Thanksgiving Activity.

Let your preschoolers practice drawing circles, diamonds and more shapes with these free Turkey Shape Tracing printables

Thanksgiving Bible: Scavenger Hunt

This printable scavenger hunt from More Like Grace is a great activity for families with young children.  After the kids find each clue, there is a reflective question for the family members to answer together.

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