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Enhance your Art & Crafts Space
Brown will be a popular color in art this week! Dye your play dough brown (a few different shades if possible). Add feathers, and google eyes to the Art Space. If you have littles you can pre-cut some construction paper "feathers". Scour the thrift stores for Turkey and other Thanksgiving cookie cutters. Add a variety of different shades of brown construction paper to the Art Space this week. Add Thanksgiving Inspired Cookie Cutters, Stamps, Seasonal Color Paint and Crayons to your Art Space this week.
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Disguise a Turkey Family ProjectThis is a fun activity to promote family engagement or to do together with the children.
Read the book Turkey Trouble and then get creative and disguise a paper turkey! You can find a free printable turkey and guide in the Storytime Activity: Turkey Disguise Craft here. This is also a fantastic family engagement project for preschools and daycares. |
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Create a Place Mat
Community Member Sheena W. printed the placemats from the Turkey & Thanksgiving Pack for the children in her program to create their own custom placemat.
After each child completed their placemat she laminated them for use during meals. |
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*Paint with Turkey BastersThis painting invitation can be a bit messy but oh so fun! Work on fine motor development while using turkey basters for painting. Use this free B&W Turkey Printable for kids to use with the basters or set up with card stock or paper plates.
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Get Crafty with TurkeysCommunity Member Jessica Freel shared this photo of little turkeys her kiddos made. Love that they used recyclables! Find more turkey inspiration in this post
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Turkey Feather Pinecone CraftMake a turkey with a few simple supplies. Using pinecones, feathers, and googly eyes. Your preschoolers can construct a fun little turkey just in time for Thanksgiving!
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Turkey Process Art Provide students with a brown circle for the body, googly eyes and a nose. Start by gluing all those items to a plain piece of paper and invite the children to use provided feathers to paint with different colors of paint!
Watch how they use the feathers instead of a paint brush and how much fun they have with the process. |
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Make a Handprint TurkeyMake a handprint turkey for a great keepsake, add paper feathers that each have a statement about what your family is thankful for.
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Bend a straw in half. Snip one end to resemble a turkey foot (with 3 toes). Bend the flaps back. Provide students with a flat tray of paint. Encourage them to dip their "foot" into the brown paint and stamp it onto the paper to make tracks.
Find more details for making Turkey Tracks Process Art on our blog. |
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Get Ready for your Thanksgiving Feast!
Add some pretend Thanksgiving Day Food items to your Dramatic Play Space. You can add a box of Thanksgiving Holiday Decor as well, include: Thanksgiving tablecloths, cloth napkins, place mats for making the table "Extra" special and Thanksgiving decorations. Allow the children to decorate their space for their Thanksgiving Meal. The PKPF Turkey and Thanksgiving Activity Pack includes a printable Thanksgiving Dinner set for you to use in your activities. Print on paper and laminate or transfer to felt (see my tutorial here). |
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Pie StandDon't forget the dessert! Use our Preschool Dramatic Play Pie Stand Set to easily create pumpkin pies for your space, or set up a Pie Stand!
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Setting the TableSupport children in learning how to set the table with this simple activity.
Print the place setting mat from the Turkey & Thanksgiving pack; set out with dishes for children to practice setting the table. |
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Airport Dramatic PlayMany families travel around the holidays. Whether your preschoolers will be traveling, or hears about others traveling, capture their interest with a fun Airport Dramatic Play invitation.
Add dress up clothes and luggage-as many children may be traveling during this time. This is a great time to add extra photos of families as well. |
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Turkey Dress-UpEncourage your kids to make their own Turkey costumes, There are several fun links to "Turkey Headbands" on-line. Use brown paper bags to make vests, and add feathers for some flair. Add plush Turkeys to your space.
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Adorable Turkey Costume shared by Lisa N.
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Diner PlayYou can also shift your Thanksgiving themed dramatic play to a restaurant or diner because some families do this as their tradition. Add in Thanksgiving themed foods.
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Build a Thanksgiving DinnerUse blocks to build a Thanksgiving dinner. Print out various photos of foods and utensils to tape onto the blocks to set up a dinner.
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*Pumpkin Pie Alphabet MatchThese tasty pie puzzles are a fun way to practice matching up lowercase to uppercase letters for preschoolers. Laminate these puzzles for repeat use or try as a cut and paste activity.
Find these in the PKPF Turkey & Thanksgiving Activity Pack. |
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Free Turkey Name ActivityInvite your preschooler to practice identifying the letters in their name and building their name.
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Thanksgiving Dinner Patterning
Use our Thanksgiving Dinner Patterning Activity to practice extending a pattern!
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Thanksgiving Dinner Number SortingThis activity is a fun way to explore the different ways numbers can be represented.
Sort numbers 1-10 on each dinner plate, numbers in this activity are represented on Thanksgiving Food in the form of: tallies, dice, fingers, numeral, number word, dominoes and a ten frame. Thanksgiving Dinner Number Sorting Activity |
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Whipped Topping Roll and CountSome children have not yet discovered how delicious pumpkin pie is, however I have never met a child that didn't love whipped topping! Roll the playing cube, count up the whipped topping then add the same number to the pie. You can use the included printable counters or add fun pom poms. This is a fun activity to engage in with children or set up for individual or two children to play. Find this activity in the PKPF Turkey and Thanksgiving Pack
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Color Turkey Matching Puzzle
Practice color matching and color words with these cute little turkeys!
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Roll a die and add the corresponding amount of produce to the cornucopia.
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Thanksgiving Inspired Sensory BinThis adorable Thanksgiving Inspired Sensory Bin was Created by Erica Payne of Erica's Educare Learning Center. She used a Potato Flake Base, and added Corn Meal, Brown Rice, and Stuffing in the Buckets.
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Thanksgiving Sensory Bin
With various dried items such as corn, and different beans or try dying rice brown, orange, and yellow to make a fun Thanksgiving sensory bin.
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This adorable Turkey play dough invitation was created by Community Member as member Erica Payne of Erica's Educare Learning Center.
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The activities from the PKPF Thanksgiving Fine Motor Fun activity pack are easy to set up and great for keeping little hands busy.
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Thanksgiving Traditions
Our Thanksgiving Traditions Set is a great tool for engaging in conversation about what happens during Thanksgiving.
Use the included photo conversation cards to prompt discussions about what children remember about last Thanksgiving, this is a good opportunity to work on recalling information from previous events. If children don't recall try using some of the sequencing pieces from the set or the word bank to support their thinking. After engaging in this activity encourage children to predict what they will do this year for Thanksgiving. |
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Turkey Theme Sign-in ActivityWelcome your students to class with this engaging name recognition activity.
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Team Building: Leadership & Self-EsteemGet your group working on Leadership & Self-Esteem with this Turkey Preschool activity from our Fall Team Building Activities pack. This pack has a variety of ideas for supporting preschoolers in developing team building skills.
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Class Recipe BookPre-K Printables Club Members: Log and and click here to download this members exclusive and create a class recipe book, duplicate each child's recipe to create a whole book for the kids to bring home.
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Turkey SnackCheck out this fun snack that Community Member Erica P shared!
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Thanksgiving TreeThis fabulous Thanksgiving Tree belongs to Cathy Meekins of Happy Hands Early Learning Academy. You can see how the kids have added to the tree throughout the week. Thanksgiving is the perfect opportunity talk about what we are thankful for. Create a group "Thanksgiving Tree". Have the children tell you who and what they are Thankful for and write their ideas on leaves to add to the tree. At the end of the week send these leaves home. They will become special memories as the children get older.
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