Preschools are closed for Thanksgiving, but if you are open Wednesday and still looking for a few last ideas for your kiddos here are some ideas that my kids have really, really loved this week! Enjoy :)
1. Kid-Created Handprint Turkeys
This was something my kids did over and over, because they were thrilled to paint and stamp their own hands! I put out several colors and we discussed painting our "Palms and Thumbs" brown. Then they could decide what color for their fingers/feathers! They did the entire thing independently during our Center/Work Station time. After they dried we added some glitter, eyeballs, and beaks/waddles.
2. Play Dough Turkeys!
I have seen this idea all over, and I have done it for several years, always changing our supplies up a bit. Here is what was in our tray this week: Cinnamon play-dough that we made, feathers, Fall colored pipe cleaners, red poms for the waddle, red dolphin shaped beads for the comb, orange rocks for the beaks, pipe cleaner feet, and google eyeballs.
The kids could make them over and over, in all sorts of ways, and they had a chance to work on sorting skills when they were done :)
Cute and super proud of their turkeys!
3. Thanksgiving Patterns
I will work on patterns any chance I can! I love putting pattern activities out for the kids during our center/work station time. This week I found some cute stamps at Michaels, so we used those. There were cute images like a: turkey, fall leaf, pumpkin, fox, owl, etc.
They did a great job with this!
4. Annual Thankful Tree
My class makes a Thankful Tree every year. I love this. We make the tree at the beginning of the week and then all week long we can add leaves with things we are Thankful for :) The kids tape them up themselves and this is always a favorite part of the activity!
5. I Am Thankful Books!
Each year I focus Thanksgiving week on being Thankful. We discuss being Thankful as "stopping for a moment to think about the things that make us happy" and then "saying Thank You" for those things :) Each day we add a page to our book with prompts like:
1. I am thankful for:
2. I am thankful for the ___________ that I eat.
3. I am thankful for the ___________ that I wear.
4. I am thankful for the ___________ that I love.
1. I am thankful for:
2. I am thankful for the ___________ that I eat.
3. I am thankful for the ___________ that I wear.
4. I am thankful for the ___________ that I love.