Before you know it Thanksgiving knocks on your door. This wonderful tradition is a time to come together and show your appreciation for relationships. You are probably super busy with a lot of other things in addition to teaching. These five low-prep Thanksgiving activities for lower elementary will have students engaged in this holiday celebration.
Playdough has many benefits for young people. Those little fingers are working hard to mold and squish the dough, building those fine motor muscles that will one day help students to write.
Their imaginations are also working hard to build their play dough creation. Play dough is an inexpensive yet so beneficial play time activity for your children and preschooler! Here is a play-dough recipe if you want to make playdough in the classroom.
While it is very beneficial to set up play dough kits for students to explore, it’s also good to expose them to math play dough mats! Fun and learning at the same time! These mats are a little more of a guided activity compared to a play dough kit. They include some sort of prompt that gives the student guidance on what to create with their play dough and how to practice certain skills. Here are counting 1-10 play-dough mats for Thanksgiving.
Who doesn’t love a good game of Bingo, ‘Write The Room’ and ‘Beginning Sound Task Cards‘. All activities have high engagement and are very good for consolidating Thanksgiving vocabulary. I’ve saved you some preparation time with these ready-made Thanksgiving Center Activities. The Bingo Cards include Thanksgiving items such as a turkey, cornucopia, autumnal leaves, and a range of Thanksgiving foods.
These are great resources. I love anything hands on and building fine motor skills at a young age is also so important. Love it!
Glad you love it!