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Get the whole family involved in learning with Thanksgiving activities like creating a wreath out of paper hands traced from each person. When giving thanks around the table, the family can debate whether or not they would have signed the Mayflower Compact. At other times of the year, family can encourage learning with summer fun activities like holding a watermelon seed spitting contest and measuring the distances.

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These paper pumpkins will make lovely, festive centerpieces in your home this fall.

Turkey Thanksgiving Place Cards

These Thanksgiving place cards are a fun turkey-twist on traditional place markers. Make a set of these Thanksgiving place cards with your child this November.

Craft Corn Harvest Napkin Rings

Your kindergartener can contribute these beaded napkin rings to your Thanksgiving table...and sneak in some good math patterning practice, too.

Make a Thanksgiving Table Runner

This Thanksgiving table runner craft isn't just fun and festive, it also helps your child build muscles for hand strength, fine motor skills, and handwriting.

'Handy' Thanksgiving Wreath

This 'handy' Thanksgiving wreath gets your child to focus on things he's grateful for all year. Create a Thanksgiving wreath with your child this November.

Make Corn Husk Flowers

There's more to corn than the sweet yellow kernels. This easy craft project shows you and your kid how to make pretty corn husk flowers using just a few tools.

Weave Paper Thanksgiving Placemats

Thanksgiving placemats are a great craft for your kid, and a beautiful addition to the dinner table. Make Thanksgiving placemats with your kid for the holiday.

Make an Apple Turkey!

It's Thanksgiving, so why not celebrate of the turkey? Let the little ones partake in the turkey fun, without having to do any of the carving.

Write a Thanksgiving Proclamation!

Helping your child write his own "Thanksgiving Proclamation" can help him grasp the spirit of the day, and develop more of an attitude of gratitude.

Create a Recipe to Practice Writing

With this activity, your third grader will get experience with informational writing, and your Thanksgiving guests will leave with a keepsake to cherish!

Make a Tissue Box Thanksgiving Turkey

Make this turkey craft with your child to get into the Thanksgiving spirit. This turkey craft is made of a tissue box and other assorted craft supplies.

Corn Kernel Necklaces

Make corn kernel necklaces this fall and help build your child's hand-eye coordination along with her fine motor skills.

When you're studying the Mayflower, numbers can be an important part of the history...and a great chance to practice elementary math!

Ride the Pilgrims' Mayflower!

Ride the Pilgrims' Mayflower with this math-inspired game for Thanksgiving. Learn about the Pilgrims' Mayflower while building problem-solving and math skills.

Make a Thanksgiving Thank You Apron

Help your child celebrate your family's Thanksgiving cook with this first grade arts and crafts activity: make a "handy" painted apron!

Play the Iroquois Plate Game

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

Say "Huzzah" This Thanksgiving!

Have some fun--and learn some history while you're at it--with these words and phrases used by our Pilgrim ancestors in the 1620's.

The Mayflower Compact: Would You Sign?

Would you sign the Mayflower Compact? Read it and see!

Three Kinds of Colonial Cornbread

Explore Pilgrim foodways with three heritage cornbread recipes.

Three Outdoor Pilgrim Games

Pilgrim games are fun for the whole family before and after Thanksgiving dinner. These Pilgrim games take your family outdoors on for fun, traditional games.

Sourdough Science!

Make sourdough bread...and learn some colonial history and modern science in the process!

Do Some Cranberry Sauce Science!

It's food. It's Thanksgiving tradition. And guess what: Cranberry Sauce is also science! Try our simple recipe/experiment.

Native American Corn Husk Dolls

Make corn husk dolls similar to the ones Pilgrims made in the 17th century. Corn Husk Dolls are fun to make and play with, especially on Thanksgiving.

The Meaning of Thanksgiving: A Hat Full of Thankful!

The meaning of Thanksgiving can sometimes get lost among the fun of food and family. Discuss the meaning of Thanksgiving with this fun activity.

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