Make a "Handy" Thanksgiving Wreath
First grade social science curriculum includes lessons on our Thanksgiving holiday, but there's no place like home to make it come alive. Here's an activity that expresses ...
Corn Kernel Necklaces
Make corn kernel necklaces this fall and help build your child's hand-eye coordination along with her fine motor skills.
Create Thanksgiving Finger Puppets
Help your child make these charming Thanksgiving finger puppets. Then, use them to reenact the first Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Sudoku
Thanks to this kindergarten math worksheet, kids can solve a fun Suduko puzzle with a Thanksgiving theme. Kids flex their logical reasoning and critical thinking skills by ...
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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.
Make Thanksgiving Teepee Place Cards
Keep your child busy and entertained this Thanksgiving by enlisting her to make the table's place cards! She'll be delighted to have such an important job and she'll improve ...
Make Leaf Banners to Hang in Your Home!
Bring some of the outdoors inside this fall and decorate your home with some festive leaf banners.
Make a Thanksgiving Table Runner
Okay, so your first grader is way too little to carve a turkey. But that doesn't mean he can't help! Put him--and a sibling or cousin or two--to work on this gorgeous ...
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The Thanksgiving Cheat Sheet
Need a little brush-up on your knowledge of Thanksgiving history? Here's a review of the major historical points that your child might ask, plus tips to help your child ...
Beyond Pilgrims: A Fresh Approach to Thanksgiving
Are you tired of the annual parade of pilgrim costumes and paper turkeys? Try incorporating a few of the following activities to help your kids get into the holiday spirit-- no ...
Five Ways to Bring Thanksgiving History to Life
While your child may not be able to travel back to 1621 this Thanksgiving, he can still get a feeling for what things were like at the time of the original historic gathering. ...
Teach Your Kids About Native American History
Many of us still know very little about the people who first settled and still live in our communities. There were many different tribes of Native Americans, each with unique ...
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Good Time Management Means More Holiday Fun
Prioritize: think about what kind of a holiday you want to have, and organize your to-do list with that goal firmly in mind.
If Traveling, Make the Most Out of the Trip
Consider important social lessons you can teach along the way, like sharing, turn-taking, and being respectfully quiet when the driver needs to concentrate.
Cook with Your Kids
Helping out in the kitchen during the holidays makes for wonderful bonding moments with your kids, and also gives them practice in the areas of science, reading, and math.
Teach Table Manners
Teach your kids to take small portions until everyone has been served, and remind them that they can always have seconds.
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Thanksgiving Recipes
- Do Some Cranberry Sauce Science
- Three Kinds of Colonial Corn Bread
- Bake Caramel Spiced Apple Cupcakes
- Make Sourdough Bread
- Four Great Cranberry Recipes for a Happy Thanksgiving
- Sweet Potato Bake
- Turkey Gravy
- Pumpkin Bread Pudding
- Wild Rice Apple Salad
- Bread Stuffing
- Twice Baked Yams
- Corn Chowder
- Indian Corn Casserole
- Biscuits
- Sneaky Ways to Use Winter Vegetables
- Transform Thanksgiving Sides Into Delicious Dishes
Book Picks to be Thankful for
If your child likes the classic rhyming song, “I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly,” then she’ll delight in this playful Thanksgiving version — featuring a family visitor with a supernatural appetite! Hilarious watercolor illustrations accompany this zany tale, which is sure to become a Thanksgiving classic. For ages 4 to 8.
This illustrated history of the American Indians takes a comprehensive and fascinating look at the cultures and people who inhabited North America before, and after, it was settled by the Europeans, including historical narratives, first person accounts, maps, timelines and rare photographs. This book, written for ages 9 to 12, makes for a well-rounded Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving gives teens a chance to reflect upon the relationship between America’s Native people and her European settlers. This novel, which takes place during the final years of the Black Mountain Apache tribe, provides a window through which teens can access this difficult history. Told through the voice of a young Apache woman who chose the path of a warrior, this story is an important and gripping read.
