Thanksgiving Activities

Looking for thanksgiving activities to show your child the fun side of learning? Choose from our educational thanksgiving activities to keep the learning going during the holiday. Select a grade from the dropdown below to find an activity that's right for you.

Bake Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce

Bake Pumpkin Bread Pudding with Caramel Sauce

Here are three words to describe this bread pudding: yum, yum, yum! Serve it at a fall party or holiday gathering, and prepare to turn some heads.

Play Anchors Away!

Play Anchors Away!

This Thanksgiving, play this fanciful math game inspired by the story of the Mayflower and strengthen your child's math problem-solving skills in the process!

Design a Native American Vest

Design a Native American Vest

Take the opportunity to enlighten your child with some Thanksgiving history by getting him into character as a Native American with this nifty vest! This craft will encourage your child's creativity and develop his fine motor skills.

Play the Iroquois Plate Game

Play the Iroquois Plate Game

This Thanksgiving, try playing this fun Native American game with the whole family.

Make a Tissue Box Thanksgiving Turkey

Make a Tissue Box Thanksgiving Turkey

Looking for a cute craft project for Thanksgiving? Look no further than this tissue box turkey! Not only is it fun to create, but it makes a great holiday centerpiece.

Weave a Paper Thanksgiving Placemat

Weave a Paper Thanksgiving Placemat

Let your first grader contribute to your Thanksgiving table with this fun paper weaving activity...while extending handwriting and math skills at the same time!

Make Corn Husk Flowers

Make Corn Husk Flowers

Transform corn on the cob into a bouquet of flowers. Magic? Nope. Just a little craftiness and a lot of fun.

The Mayflower Compact: Would You Sign?

The Mayflower Compact: Would You Sign?

After 66 days of being crammed into a 90 foot ship with 127 other people, you have finally reached land. Unfortunately, though, there is no sign of civilization as you know it. Would you sign the Mayflower Compact? Read it and see!

Make an Apple Turkey!

Make an Apple Turkey!

All you need to make this fun Thanksgiving craft are a few apples, toothpicks, marshmallows and raisins. When they're done, the kids will have made a fabulous table decoration everyone can enjoy while they gobble the real thing.

Make a Cornhusk Doll

Make a Cornhusk Doll

From records and objects left behind by the Pilgrims, we know that even though their lives were hard, their kids still loved to play. Here is a cornhusk craft they probably learned from their new neighbors, the Wampanoag Indians.

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